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Moravian College • Preservation Master Plan
four rooms up and down (figure 5-112). This type
was popular in the United States around the turn
of the century and often was constructed with
Craftsman details, including wide front porches,
heavy brackets supporting the eaves, and hipped
roofs. These buildings along Main Street now house
two sororities, Tri Sigma (ΣΣΣ) and Zeta Tau Alpha
(ΖΤΑ).
Figure 5-109. View of Colonial Hall from the west. The original
Colonial Hall faces Main Street and the building that was the
Moravian Church Archives is to the left (JMA 2009).
For a more detailed building analysis and
discussion, refer to Chapter 8 of this report.
Contributing features:
• Colonial Hall
• Early twentieth-century residences
Figure 5-112. American Foursquare houses at the corner of Main
and Locust Streets (JMA 2009).
Spatial Organization
Figure 5-110. Original open walkway between Colonial Hall and
the Moravian College Archives (Moravian College Archives).
Figure 5-111. The same view showing the addition (JMA 2008).
Colonial Hall and its additions form an L-shape
that encloses a small courtyard and lawn (see
figure 5-109). Entrance to this courtyard is through
a gateway formed by a pair of stone piers and a
low curb that supports curved picket fencing. The
gateway provides a sense of enclosure on the west
side of this courtyard. At least as late as the 1950s,
the area in front of Colonial Hall was divided by a
double row of shrubs that lined the walkway (figure
5-113). However, these were later removed and
street trees added along Main Street that provide
more enclosure.
Today, to the south of the courtyard, the landscape
opens up onto a wide, rolling open lawn that curves
around the two older residences and leads down
a slope towards the Bahnson Center (figure 5-114).
The spaces formed by building walls between the
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