{"id":1666,"date":"2011-03-17T15:58:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T19:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2011-03-17T15:58:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T19:58:16","slug":"dana-science-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/encyclopedia\/dana-science-laboratory","title":{"rendered":"Dana Science Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/Dana-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"269\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dates: <\/strong>Groundbreaking October 2, 1958. Dedication April 7, 1960.<br \/>\nThird floor renovated at the Porter Natural History Museum. Building renovated<br \/>\n1974. Building renovated 1999. In 1998, the Watson Life Sciences<br \/>\nBuilding was constructed. Jointly Dana and Watson make up the Baker-Watt<br \/>\nScience Complex.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote:<\/strong> The new building, which will be architecturally<br \/>\nharmonious with other structures on the campus, is scheduled to be ready for<br \/>\nuse in the fall of 1959. Its location was determined after a series of studies<br \/>\nof available locations and after unanimous vote of the faculty and trustees<br \/>\ncommittees on Buildings and Grounds and the Executive Committee of the<br \/>\nTrustees. The building will be a two story structure with partial basement and<br \/>\nwill contain approximately 29,000 square feet of floor space. It is estimated<br \/>\nthat it will cost between $550,000 and $600,000. <em>Martin, D. Grier.<br \/>\n&#8220;Science Building.&#8221; Memorandum.<\/em> <em>19 April 1958. Dana<br \/>\nScience Building Davidsoniana file. Davidson College Archives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Named for:<\/strong> Charles A. Dana, attorney, industrialist, and<br \/>\nphilanthropist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/archives\/encyclopedia\/davidson-college-campus-buildings\/\">Return to Campus Building List<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dates: Groundbreaking October 2, 1958. Dedication April 7, 1960. Third floor renovated at the Porter Natural History Museum. Building renovated 1974. Building renovated 1999. In 1998, the Watson Life Sciences Building was constructed. Jointly Dana and Watson make up the Baker-Watt Science Complex. Quote: The new building, which will be architecturally harmonious with other structures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}