{"id":152670,"date":"2023-04-07T09:47:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T13:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=152670"},"modified":"2023-04-13T12:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T16:22:25","slug":"from-a-distance-an-aerial-view-of-campus-before-lake-andrews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/07\/from-a-distance-an-aerial-view-of-campus-before-lake-andrews\/","title":{"rendered":"From a Distance: An aerial view of campus before Lake Andrews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Around 1957, when this aerial photo was taken, Bates was building out the land north of the Historic Quad, including the excavation of Lake Andrews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First came Pettigrew Hall, in 1953. Then in quick succession came Page Hall (1957), Schaeffer Theater (1960), the maintenance center (1962), Lane Hall (1964), and Wentworth Adams (1967).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click or tap the garnet buttons to learn some fun facts, including why no structure stands \u2014 or will ever stand \u2014 in front of Gomes Chapel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-dark-color has-text-color\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%;\"><div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 58.68%; padding-top: 0; height: 0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"From a Distance: Bates Campus in circa 1957\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"1164\" height=\"683\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/view.genial.ly\/643018e6dd5ab60011ccd81c\" type=\"text\/html\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" allownetworking=\"all\"><\/iframe> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 1957, Bates was building out the land north of campus. Check out some fun facts about this era, including why no structure stands in front of Gomes Chapel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":152733,"comment_status":"open","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":"Check out some fun facts about this era, including why no structure stands in front of Gomes Chapel.","_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":[11009],"tags":[12263],"class_list":["post-152670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-college","tag-from-a-distance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152670"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152828,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152670\/revisions\/152828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}