{"id":1752,"date":"2011-03-21T15:39:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2011-03-21T15:39:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:39:33","slug":"oak-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/encyclopedia\/oak-row","title":{"rendered":"Oak Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"68%\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/oak2thumb.jpg\" width=\"331\" height=\"206\" border=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/oakthumb1.jpg\" width=\"361\" height=\"203\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Dates: <\/b>Built in 1836-37 as dormitory. Fraternity meeting room,<br \/>\n1916-1928, Office of student publications and other organizations, 1928-1950,<br \/>\nMusic Department Offices, 1950-1969, Art Department Offices and Music practice<br \/>\nrooms, 1969-1993, Music practice rooms 1993 to present.<\/p>\n<p><b>Quote:<\/b> The rows apparently continued as dormitories until 1916 when the<br \/>\nfraternities were moved out of Chambers and give the Rows as meeting halls.<br \/>\nThe two interior rooms were done away with and each Row had two halls for the<br \/>\nfraternities which decorated them as they saw fit. The most elaborate was the<br \/>\nsouth end of Oak Row which was converted into a Greek temple by Beta Theta Pi,<br \/>\ncomplete with their marble altar which they brought from Chambers. <i>Davidson,<br \/>\nChalmers. &#8220;Oak and Elm Rows.&#8221; Flyer. Oak Row Davidsoniana file.<br \/>\nDavidson College Archives.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/encyclopedia\/oak-row\">Davidson Encyclopedia entry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/archives\/encyclopedia\/davidson-college-campus-buildings\/\">Returnto Campus Building List<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dates: Built in 1836-37 as dormitory. Fraternity meeting room, 1916-1928, Office of student publications and other organizations, 1928-1950, Music Department Offices, 1950-1969, Art Department Offices and Music practice rooms, 1969-1993, Music practice rooms 1993 to present. Quote: The rows apparently continued as dormitories until 1916 when the fraternities were moved out of Chambers and give [&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\/1752"}],"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=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}