The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-09-13
Montana School of Mines Realizes 35-Year-Old Dream
in Completion of Student Faculty Residence Building

Montana School of Mines at Butte |
will realize the fulfillment of a 35-
year dream this month when the new
student and faculty residence hall
will open its doors for the first time.
The beautiful and imposing building, |
constructed upon the highest spot OF
the Mines campus has been under
construction for the past year. n
que among college residence hals'
the new building on the Mines camp
us Is setting a precedent in that 1t IS
built to accommodate not only un-
dergraduate men engineering stu,
dents, but also faculty members and
their families, married students and
their wives, fraternity men. and grad
mates of colleges studying at the
Montana school for advanced degrees.
There are also living quarters for the
employees of the building.
Built in the shape Of the letter H
a main building thanked by TWO wings
specially designed for the two national
honorary engineering traternlCles
sienna Rho and Theta Tau, the struc-
t1,1e faces east toward the towering
ridge of the Continental divide. The
concrete foundations are rooted into
the solid rock of a rhyolite lava flow
millions of years old. The entrance
TO the main building and the fraternity
wings look out and down at the Guy
Of Butte and the scores OF mines that
dot the hillsides. 1t seems a o APP
propriate place for young engineers TO
live. for their front yard Is itself a lap,
oratory of mining, metallurgy, and
geology.
The building is of Steel. concrete,
and brick, trimmed with ivory terra
Gotta. The builders claim it IS absolut-
civ fireproof as the only wood is IN the
doors, window frames. and hand ralis
along the stairways. Even the 1urtl-
tl1re is to be entirely of steel OF the
most modern type.
Rooms for ia students will be avail.
able when the college begins the iall
semester on Sept. 80. The rooms are
both single and double in the main
building and in the fraternity houses.
In addition. the building contains three
two-room apartments. each having d
small study room and two tour-room
apartments for faculty members, ana
their families or for married students.
In the basement of the building there
are four Steam-heated garages winch
will house from - to 16 automobiles.
one large kitchen will service three
dining rooms, a large dining room 1or
the main building and smaller ones Tor
each fraternity. The kitchen will have
the most modern gas equipment ana
electric refrigeration. A well-equipped
lDflrmarV Will De Hldlllldlileu ~ eiiS
first floor. A modern laundry is located
in the basement.
Included in the building are five large
lounges or reception rooms where stu
dents and fraternity members may en-
terrain visitors. Each of the lounges
is equipped with brick f%ireplaces. In
the graduate student suites are private
shower baths, a large study. and two
single bedrooms. The four-room apart
ments, consisting of two bedrooms, a
bath, a large living and dining room
and a completely modern Kitchen
equipped with gas for cooking and with
electric refrigeration, have private en-
frances and are not connected with the
student part of the residence hall.
Mrs. Minnie R. Tennis, a prominent
Butte clubwoman, will be the house
mother for the entire building. The
Mines thus becomes n of the few
colleges in the state in which a woman
has been selected to manage a mems
residence hall.
college authorities estimate that the