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Moravian College • Preservation Master Plan
Contributing features:
• Retaining wall between Main Hall and
Frueauff House
• Retaining wall along Monocacy Creek
• Retaining wall around honey locust behind
Frueauff House
Missing features:
• Formal brick gateway into campus
• Tennis courts
• Cast iron fountain
• Rose Garden retaining wall
• Stone garden wall
Site Furnishings and Objects
The Hurd Campus contains a variety of types and
styles of site furnishings, including fences, gates,
railings, bollards, benches, lighting, sculpture,
signage, and other items. Some of these items
contribute to the historic character of the area and
some detract from it. Descriptions of these items
are detailed below.
A cream-painted, four-foot tall wood picket fence
surrounds the garden area behind the Frueauff
House. It rests atop the stone retaining wall and
has vertical pickets affixed to a top and bottom rail
(see figure 5-56). A gate with black metal hinges set
in the fenceline allows access to the garden below
(figure 5-58). Historic views of the gardens on this
parcel show picket fences surrounding the plots;
this fence may be an imitation of that style (see
figure 5-9).
picket gate, with 4”x4” corner posts topped with
decorative black metal lanterns (see figure 5-28). On
the east side of the Freuauff House, a six-foot-tall
gate, flanked by two sections of fence, closes off the
space between the house and the Central Moravian
Administrative Office.
In addition to these two wood gates, a metal gate
is located on the west side of the portico under
South Hall. This gate and a lantern hanging from
the western arch appear in photographs from the
1920s (see figures 5-33 and 5-34). They were installed
in 1916. Note that the lantern was later moved to
the eastern arch as it appears today.
West of these features is a black metal gateway that
arches over the entrance to the plaza in front of
the Payne Art Gallery. Its provenance and date of
installation are not known.
Along the property line between the Clewell Hall
and 45 W. Church Street is a post and wire fence
of indeterminate age (figure 5-59). The posts are
concrete with chamfered tops and rectangular wire
mesh affixed to the posts with large metal staples.
This fence is similar to a fence that appears in a
1929 photograph next to the formal entrance gate
that was located on Main Street and may be historic
(see figures 5-23 and 5-32).
On the Church Street front of the Frueauff House
are two gates in a similar style. At the entrance
to the private drive between Main Hall and the
Frueauff House is a double inward-swinging
Figure 5-58. Wood picket fence behind the Frueauff House (JMA
2008).
Figure 5-59. Concrete fence posts that are likely historic (JMA
2008).
John Milner Associates • October 2009 • Chapter 5 • Cultural Landscapes • 91