Hilltopper Heritage

Building History - Spoonholder

Other Names -
Date Built - ca. 1929; rebuilt 1935
Date Razed - 1935, 1938
Cost of Construction - no record
Architects -

Namesake -

History - Small wooden structure where students met between and after classes. Generally a place where couples could rendezvous located in front of "Old Potter Hall" on the site of the current Cherry Hall.

The second spoonholder was a large octagonal concrete structure with seats around a tree and around the outer rim, built on the site of the first. It was estimated to seat approximately 100.

Before the Goal Post became the mecca of idle students, people who had neither the time nor the energy to go to the bottom of the hill and back found the "Spoonholder" a convenient and popular place to meet for discussing current happenings and for courting. The "Spoonholder" was torn down to make room for Cherry Hall. "[1949 Talisman, p. 7]

The current [2008] "Spoonholder" is a terraced seating area just across the drive from Gordon Wilson Hall and Van Meter.

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Links - "Spoonholder Has It's Dedication," Students Weekly, June 26, 1935
Huddleston, Paul. "Collegiate Days And Nights," College Heights Herald, Vol. X, No. 16, 1935, p. 2.
Stone, Larry. "Soloman Dedicates Spoonholder," Students Weekly, June 19, 1935, p. 4.
Wilson, Gordon. "Passing Institutions, The Spoonholder," np, March 22, 1935.
Wright, Walter. "Lamented 'Spoonholder' Is Gone; Memories Remain," College Heights Herald, January 21, 1938.

Images - Talisman 1934 p. 22; 1935 p. 91, 1936 pp. 119, 128, 138; 1949, p. 7