{"id":1727,"date":"2011-03-21T15:30:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2017-11-21T17:56:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:56:40","slug":"shearer-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/encyclopedia\/shearer-hall","title":{"rendered":"Shearer Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"58%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/shearer1.jpg\" alt=\"photo of the renovated building\" width=\"288\" height=\"185\" border=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/shearerchapel1.jpg\" alt=\"photo of the old building\" width=\"260\" height=\"183\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Dates: <\/b>Built in 1837-38. Remodeled and named Shearer Hall in 1901.<br \/>\nDemolished in 1960.<\/p>\n<p><b>Quote:<\/b> In 1901, President Shearer, known to the students as &#8220;Old<br \/>\nPuss&#8221; decided he wanted a building named for his wife. so he pulled down<br \/>\nan original professor&#8217;s house (known as Tammany Hall) and added the east wing<br \/>\nto the old chapel, then he pulled off the columns and made it face the main<br \/>\nhighway, and finally stuccoed it over placing a marble plaque at the new front<br \/>\nannouncing that the building had been erected to the glory of God and Lizzie<br \/>\nGessner Shearer, giving rise to the somewhat profane nickname the building<br \/>\nonce had of &#8220;the Glory to God and Lizzie Hall.&#8221; <i>Davidson,<br \/>\nChalmers. &#8220;Funeral Sermon Preached at Demolition of Shearer Hall.&#8221;<br \/>\nTypescript. 13 January 1960. Shearer Hall Davidsoniana file. Davidson College<br \/>\nArchives.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Named for:<\/b> Lizzie Gessner Shearer Hall, wife of Davidson College<br \/>\nPresident John Bunyon Shearer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/archives\/encyclopedia\/davidson-college-campus-buildings\/\">Return<br \/>\nto Campus Building List<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dates: Built in 1837-38. Remodeled and named Shearer Hall in 1901. Demolished in 1960. Quote: In 1901, President Shearer, known to the students as &#8220;Old Puss&#8221; decided he wanted a building named for his wife. so he pulled down an original professor&#8217;s house (known as Tammany Hall) and added the east wing to the [&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\/1727"}],"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=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23933,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/23933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}