{"id":148,"date":"2024-07-02T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T18:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/clapp\/?page_id=148"},"modified":"2024-08-21T17:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T17:23:05","slug":"constructionandrenovation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/clapp\/constructionandrenovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Clapp Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cSouth Elevation\u201d blueprints, 1922<\/sub><\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Construction<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ground broke beginning construction the summer of 1922, long before funding for the $600,000 building was completed. President Wolley commented on this, \u201cNot to build, however, was to endanger the future of the departments concerned, and cripple the teaching of biological sciences at a time when there is increasing demand for women trained in these lines.\u201d (Report of the President, 1920-1923) The blueprints included plans for a museum wing, which the Board of Trustees agreed not to build due to costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Glass plate negative of Cornelia Clapp construction, 1923<\/sub><\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Photo of Cornelia Clapp construction, circa 1923-24<\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Photo of Cornelia Clapp Laboratory by Florence Holroyd \u201827, 1924<\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThe Science Building\u201d, Mount Holyoke Alumnae Quarterly, July 1923<\/sub><\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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“Men tramped about and yelled where habitually scholastic calm presided; little trucked clattered over rocks; a bundle of lead piping rolled to the ground with a thud and a clang as it hit against a stone; there was the metallic hiccough of the riveter, and the heaving of the donkey engine.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“There was a good earthly smell – perhaps from the bricks and lumber, piled in heaps near the piping, was fragrantly fresh, as if sap were still running it in.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I saw the great steel beams as a warp through which would be woven woof of masonry, of brick and wood, until the whole fabric should be complete, the pattern plain and fine, a building wrought by the shuttle of the engineer.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dedication<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Photo of Cornelia Clapp Laboratory, circa 1920s<\/sub><\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cornelia Clapp Laboratory was completed in the summer of 1924, and was opened in the fall for student use. On Founder\u2019s Day, November 7, the building was dedicated. Attended by Dr. Cornelia Clapp, the dedication was held after the Founder\u2019s Day exercises. Speeches were given by Dr. Clapp, Mr. Skinner, and Professor E.G. Conklin of Princeton University. Two laboratories on the first floor were named the \u201cAlumnae Laboratories\u201d, dedicated for the alumnae whose contributions paid for the laboratories\u2019 equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo of Dr. Cornelia Clapp in front of Cornelia Clapp Laboratory, circa 1920s<\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Photo of students in Cornelia Clapp Laboratory, circa 1924,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Photo of students in a botany laboratory, circa 1920s-1930s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Photo of students gathered around an orrery, 1947<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Photo of a geography class, circa 1940s-1950s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Photo of a lab presentation, n.d.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Photo of students in a physiology lab, March 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Clapp Renovation >><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Construction Ground broke beginning construction the summer of 1922, long before funding for the $600,000 building was completed. President Wolley commented on this, \u201cNot to build, however, was to endanger the future of the departments concerned, and cripple the teaching of biological sciences at a time when there is increasing demand for women trained in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2199,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-148","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/clapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/clapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/clapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/clapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/clapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/clapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/clapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/clapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}