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Moravian College • Preservation Master Plan
Field House. Current land uses in this area are
primarily residential, athletic, and social.
Contributing features:
• Recreation
Circulation Features
Figure 5-123. View of the eastern half of the Sports Quad,
looking towards Johnston Hall (JMA 2008).
Smaller spaces that relate to individual buildings,
such as entrances or outdoor gathering places,
are differentiated from the larger open space by
specialized paving, site furnishings such as picnic
tables, shrub plantings, and overhead tree canopies
(figure 5-124).
Contributing features:
• Open sports field
Two primary circulation features edge the Sports
Quad: the extension of Locust Street to the north,
which provides vehicular access to the front of
the dormitories. It originally ended in a circular
turnaround, but a driveway was later cut through
to provide a connection to housing constructed
down hill from the quad. Locust is restricted in
use and fairly unobtrusive when viewed from the
sports fields because the field is topographically
lower (figure 5-125).
On the opposite side of the field is a concrete
sidewalk that encircles the field, leading from the
circular drive, around its south and east sides to an
open patio outside the HUB and north to reconnect
with Locust (figure 5-126). Other concrete sidewalks
Figure 5-124. Entrance lobby for Rau-Hassler Residence Hall
(JMA 2008).
Figure 5-125. Locust Street as it descends past the sports fields
to the left (JMA 2008).
Land Use
Historically, this area was part of the farmland that
once occupied this tract outside of Bethlehem. By
the early twentieth century, residential development
had surrounded the historic core of the college and
extended down Monocacy Street to the east of the
Sports Quad. The Sports Quad itself was used as a
baseball field. The houses on Monocacy Street were
demolished in 1966 to make way for the Haupert
Union Building. Small houses located along Otis
Place east of Locust were demolished around 1990
to make way for the construction of Breidegam
Figure 5-126. Concrete walks that edge most sides of the sports
fields (JMA 2008).
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