The members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity built a house in 1906 on the southwest corner of High Street and Mooreland avenue. In the summer of 1927 they remodeled the building for a cost of $18,000, adding a new dining room and kitchen, complete with an electric refrigerator, and outfitting the house with a new heating system. By December of 1954, the mortgage for the house had been completely repaid; the fraternity members, old and new, celebrated by burning the mortgage papers.

Beta Theta Pi occupied the house until it was sold to the College in 1964 and the members moved into Quad 6 (now Longsdorff Hall) of the Fraternity Quandrangle. The house was razed and the site was used for a new dormitory, Malcolm Hall.

Baird Hall (Quad 4), part of the “upper quad” and one of the ten residence halls that made up the College’s Fraternity Quadrangle, was first used to house students in September 1964. The hall, which initially served as the residence of the Sigma Chi fraternity, was named in honor of Spencer Fullerton Baird, class of 1840, who taught at Dickinson for several years and who later became the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Actually the second building in the College’s history to bear the name (the first Baird Hall housed the Biology department), this dormitory was designed by Howell Lewis Shay and Associates and cost approximately $200,000 to build. In the fall of 2000, the building was remodeled and joined with McClintock Hall (Quad 5) to create a larger residence hall for upperclassmen.

The Baird Biology Building, previously known as “Mooreland,” the home and deer park of sportsman Johnston Moore, class of 1829, was purchased by Dickinson College in 1932 from the family estate following the death of Euphemia P. Moore, Johnston’s daughter. When the building was converted to college use in 1937, it became the home of the Biology Department. It was dedicated in memory of Spencer Fullerton Baird, a member of the graduating class of 1840, who would achieve notoriety as one of the leading naturalists of his day, ultimately serving as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The three-story building, which sat on the grounds of the Benjamin Rush campus, was demolished in 1966 to make room for Witwer Hall.

One of the ten buildings that made up Dickinson College’s Fraternity Quadrangle, Atwater Hall (Quad 7) was first opened to students in September 1964, serving as the residence of the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. The building began serving as a general residence hall in 1990 after that fraternity had moved out.

In 1992, the hall was named in honor of Jeremiah Atwater, the third president of Dickinson College, who served in that post from 1809 until 1815. The building was designed by Howell Lewis Shay and Associates, and cost approximately $200,000 to build.

One of ten buildings that made up Dickinson College’s Fraternity Quadrangle, Armstrong Hall (Quad 8) was first used in September 1964 as the residence of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. The hall was designed by Howell Lewis Shay and Associates and cost approximately $200,000. After the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity moved out, the building continued to serve as a general residence hall.

This building, one of the four “lower quads,” was later named for John Armstrong, one of the nine founding patentees of the Carlisle Grammar School, as well as one of the founding trustees of Dickinson College in 1783.

A complex cultural center that could seat nearly half of the college community at the time at full capacity, the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium was dedicated on May 22, 1971. The building was designed by Architects Collaborative, Inc. and constructed at a cost of $2.2 million.

Louis Alfred Tuvin, a member of the graduating class of 1910, generously donated $500,000 toward the building project in memory of his daughter, for whom the building is named. Known more familiarly as ATS, the auditorium serves as a versatile space for lectures, debates, concerts, and performances of all variety.

The need for more space and better facilities made the decision to build the Alumni Gymnasium an easy one. The gymnasium, which provided more room for spectators, better locker rooms and showers for athletes, and a much-desired swimming pool, opened on January 9, 1929, for a basketball game between Dickinson and the University of Pennsylvania.

Situated on the site of Old South College and facing Old West from across High Street, the Alumni Gymnasium cost $232,621, all of which was raised through a fund drive organized by the General Alumni Association. Following the opening of the Kline Life/Sports Center, the gymnasium was completely remodeled and converted into the Emil R. Weiss Center for the Arts in 1983.

One of the significant goals and successes of the Ten Year Development Program launched in 1948, Althouse Hall first served as the home of the chemistry and geology departments. Ground was broken on June 1, 1957, and the building, located on the John Dickinson campus just west of West College, was dedicated on November 8, 1958. It was designed by architect Elmer H. Adams, and constructed at a cost of $618,029.

Dr. C. Scott Althouse, for whom the building is named, contributed the $300,000 gift that guaranteed this new facility. The building’s library was made possible by a $35,000 gift from Irénée du Pont, and served as a memorial to Alfred Victor du Pont, class of 1818. In 1964, a gift of $50,000 from Roscoe O. Bonisteel, class of 1912, paid for a roof-top observatory which included seven telescopes.

The geology department later relocated to the Benjamin D. James Center, leaving the chemistry department as the building’s sole resident.

The two-story reinforced concrete house located at 272 W. High Street was built in 1912 by Abram Bosler, a non-graduate of the class of 1905 and member of the Board of Trustees. Bosler did not wish to lose his home to fire, and the building was the first Carlisle residence built of the fire-proof concrete. After Bosler’s death in 1930 his wife and children continued to occupy the house; in 1945 the house was purchased by the Chi Omega national sorority to be used as its national headquarters. However, the society's plans changed within a year and the house was returned to the market.

The Dickinson College chapter of Alpha Chi Rho acquired the house on November 4, 1946 for a sum of $34,500. The fraternity occupied the house until it was purchased by the College on June 6, 1964, as all of the College fraternities were preparing to move into the newly constructed Fraternity Quadrangle. The house, which was purchased for $55,000, became the home of the Admissions Office and was refurnished in the late 1980s. In 1990, after this renovation was completed, the house was named in honor of Robert A. Waidner, class of 1932 and a member of the Board of Trustees.

The Alpha Chi Rho fraternity purchased a house at 36 North College Street in January of 1919 at a cost of $8,000. The fraternity occupied this house until 1946, during which time the house underwent a series of major renovations, including a complete remodeling of the interior in 1926. In 1946 the fraternity purchased the former home of Abram Bosler at the corner of High and College Streets, and in turn sold their house to Phi Epsilon Pi, who moved out of the eastern section of East College. By this time, the façade of the building had been refaced in brick and a larger porch was added.

Phi Epsilon Pi occupied this house until it was sold to the College and razed in 1963 to make room for the Holland Union Building.