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  U of S to Erect Student Hall: Approximate Cost $1 Million, 1958

  Scranton Tribune article about the razing of three University of Scranton dormitories on Quincy Avenue to make way for the Gunster Memorial Student Center.
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  Article about the construction of St. Thomas Hall, showing Linden St. (now the University Commons) and Quincy Ave (now the Royal Way)

  Scranton Times article about the construction of St. Thomas Hall.
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  Site of Proposed Dormitories (with Nevils Hall and Beach in the background), 1990s

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  First Student Residences, 1957

  Photograph (ca. 1957) of the University of Scranton's first student residences (Martin, McCourt, and Fitch Halls), located on the 300 block of Quincy Avenue. The three houses, purchased in May 1955, served as student residences until 1958 when the lower quad of dormitories was constructed across the street. The names of these converted residence homes were then transferred to the new residence halls, which are the current Martin, McCourt, and Fitch Halls. The old houses were then razed in December 1958 order to build the Gunster Memorial Student Center. Local historian Jack Shean has identified the buildings (left to right) as the onetime residences of Henry A. Knapp, a lawyer and vice president of the Scranton Trust Company, Henry V. Logan, a local physician, and C. D. Sanderson, an area stockbroker.
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  Demolition of residences from Quincy to Clay Avenue between Linden Street and Ridge Row, in preparation for the construction of a Field House, later named the Long Center (dated July 16, 1965).