{"id":4451,"date":"2020-04-21T14:16:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2021-03-12T14:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T19:14:45","slug":"the-eighth-commencement-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/2020\/04\/21\/the-eighth-commencement-location\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eighth Commencement &#8216;Location&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/files\/2020\/04\/0d4bf30dbd6c1f50e3e216015c39a6f8-900x704.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/files\/2020\/04\/0d4bf30dbd6c1f50e3e216015c39a6f8-900x704.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/files\/2020\/04\/0d4bf30dbd6c1f50e3e216015c39a6f8-383x300.jpg 383w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/files\/2020\/04\/0d4bf30dbd6c1f50e3e216015c39a6f8-768x601.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/files\/2020\/04\/0d4bf30dbd6c1f50e3e216015c39a6f8-1536x1202.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/files\/2020\/04\/0d4bf30dbd6c1f50e3e216015c39a6f8.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption>The 1964 Bates Commencement ceremony was held in the Lewiston Armory building near campus. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the college\u2019s first Commencement, in 1867, Bates has held its graduation ceremony in seven physical locations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1867 to 1913: Baptist church on Main Street (except in 1876)<\/li><li>1876: Lewiston City Hall<\/li><li>1914 to 1948: Gomes Chapel<\/li><li>1949 to 1966: Lewiston Armory on Central Street<\/li><li>1967: Alumni Gym<\/li><li>1968: Alumni Gym and Chapel (two Commencements, one for three-year grads)<\/li><li>1969: Alumni Gym and Chapel (two Commencements, one for three-year grads)<\/li><li>1970: Alumni Gym<\/li><li>1971\u20132019 : Historic Quad in front of Coram Library (rain site: Merrill Gymnasium)<\/li><li>2020: Virtual<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Read this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/18\/15-things-for-150-commencements\/\">Bates News story for more facts and stories<\/a>&nbsp;from Bates Commencements past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s remote event marks the eighth different location since the college\u2019s first Commencement, in 1867, at a downtown church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":4454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commencement-2020","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4566,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/4566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}