Built just after the Civil War, UMass's oldest building was one of the two original dormitories (the other was North College, originally on the site of Machmer Hall- you can see it in the background of this photo). The building burned in 1884, but was quickly rebuilt. The building has served as the biology department and as an adminstrative building. It is now home to the Linguistics and Comparative Literature departments, the deans of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, and the Anthropology department's graduate student offices.
Cool Fact: South College boasts huge bank vaults in its basement, which were originally used to hold deposits by the Bursar. Now they hold the Linguistics department's prized graduate theses, which sell for thousands of dollars a piece.
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