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Old 01-19-2007, 11:05 PM
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It took me a while to orient myself. Do you know anything about the large building behind Biddle Hall where the JFK building now is? I understood that the latter was built as a WW2 tank factory.
There's not much at the JFK site in these photos. The big building directly behind Biddle Hall was Laning Hall, a facility built in the 1860s anticipation of housing a number of Civil War veterans. It was demolished in the 1990s, I think.
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