This 6"x4.5" black and white photograph shows the Carnegie Science Hall at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. The flat-roofed brick building has two columns flanking each side of the main entrance at the top of several steps. A lawn surrounds the building and a curving cement sidewalk follows the tree-lined road at the left.
Carnegie Science Hall was built in 1909 and was the sixth college building on campus. With interest in the sciences increasing along with the enrollment at Doane College, money given by Mr. Andrew Carnegie was used for the construction of this three-story building. The building, designed by the Lincoln firm of Fiske and Dieman, had different floors designated for different areas of science. Biology was on the first floor, physics was on the second floor, and chemistry on the third. The building contained laboratories and lecture halls. The Carnegie Science Hall was torn down in 1977.
Sources: 1) Thomas D. Perry, History of Doane College 1872 to 1912 Crete, Nebraska (Doane College Crete, Nebraska, 1957), 72, 74. 2) Janet L. Jeffries, Images of America, Crete (South Carolina, Arcadia Publishing, 2012), 71.
