page_title: Campus of Lafayette College
section_title: South College
hierarchical_section_title: Campus of Lafayette College / Residence halls / South College
caption_attribution_description: English: Lafayette College, South College, College Hill, Easton, PA.
context_page_description: The Lafayette College campus is a 110-acre suburban area located on College Hill in Easton, Pennsylvania. Lafayette College also owns and maintains a 230-acre athletic complex, the Metzgar Fields Athletic Complex, and leases a 1,500 square foot space in New York City. The school is roughly 70 mi west of New York City and 60 mi north of Philadelphia.
  The main campus borders the City of Easton to the south, the College Hill Residential Historic District to the north east, and is situated almost directly on the Delaware River.
context_section_description: South College is a residence hall for students of all years, and was the first building constructed at Lafayette College. Construction of the building started in 1833, and it was hand built by the students under the supervision and help of the college's first president, George Junkin. In its original iteration, the building consisted of only the middle edifice, and this housed a kitchen, dining hall, recitation room, prayer hall, rooms for the college's two literary societies, fifty dormitory rooms, and apartments for the college president and his family.
  The first addition to the building began by the addition of the east wing completed in 1870. Built with $22,000 donated by the city of Easton, the new wing was named Eastonian Hall and contained a two-story tall room which was quickly used to house the college's growing collecting of books. A second addition, the west wing, was finished by 1873 which contained the college chapel. In 1878, the graduating class gifted to the school the clock which still sits along the steeple of South College. The following class of 1879 donated the South College Bell. With the construction of Colton Chapel in 1916, the West wing chapel was utilized as a basketball court, then underwent renovations in 1921 to separate it into two rooms; one housing a lecture hall, the other hosting the faculty room.
  On March 1, 1956, after years without renovation, the trustees decided to close the east wing of South due to its dilapidation. The following night, March 2, a fire burned much of the west wing and the building's tower. Through the years 1957-8, both of these wings were completely renovated to be used as student housing. In 1961, the entire center edifice was razed and rebuilt in order to make room for more student housing, a book store, and post office. In 2001, the west wing was again renovated, and this time renamed as Jesser Hall, after Ned Jesser, class of 1939.
caption: South College
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