I want to thank the planning team as we’ve been working on the plans for Hogue Hall II. The planning team has consisted of faculty, staff, administration, members of our board of trustees, student body president, and community leaders –
Phil Amos, Director of Facilities and Support Services
Randy Bergen, Vice President for Academic Affairs/Dean of Faculty
Ed Blue, Interim President
Jack Chism, Professor of Management
Mike Coling, Board Member
Andy Costlow, Architect, InterDesign
Pepper Dill, Senior Vice President for Enrollment Management
Doug Faulkner, Athletic Director
Dana Funderburk, Vice President for Finance
Lori Gaffner, Chaplain, Director of Spiritual Formation
Norm Hall, Vice President and Dean of Student Development
Tamie Heichelbeck, Administrative Assistant to the President
David Hoag, Senior Vice President for Advancement/Planning Team Chair
Will Krause, Vice President for Technology, Planning and Facilities
Dale Martin, Dean of Instruction
Charles McPherson, Board Member
Keith Stewart, Student Body President
Susan Watson, Board Member
Dave Willey, City of Greenville City Manager
The schematic design is the first phase of a three-phase process as you plan for a new building. Our objective was to clearly define, develop a concept, and present it to the board of trustees. By completing this phase of planning for the building, we’re able to take this vision to our alumni and friends as we seek donations for this project. The attachments and illustrations show some of the work which has taken place over the last six months.
David Hoag
Senior Vice President for Advancement/Planning Team Chair
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What happened to the beautiful old trees on the College Ave. side?
It’d be a shame to see them go.
I haven’t been back to visit in a while, so forgive me if they’re gone already.
They’re all still there. In the full plans the team states their intent to save as many trees as possible and especially the mature ones. They also talk about adding new trees and bushes as well as flowers.
The plans look beautiful. I’m very impressed by your dedication to make the new Hogue Hall look so much like the original on the exterior. Your planning team has really shown integrity during this process and I excited for what is next for Greenville.
Are the contractors for this project the same one’s who built Tower Apartments or College Ave. Apartments?
Honestly, I’m a bit disappointed with the artist’s rendering of Hogue Hall 2.0
President Mannoia assured all of us that the iconic bell tower would be preserved, so I’m disappointed to see a clock tower instead.
To me the bell tower is reminiscent of a church and represents Greenville’s call to students to come and worship as well as learn. A clock tower is reminiscent of a train station where the main concern is that everything run on time.
I’m really excited that GC will be adding another handicap accessible building, not to mention one that looks like it will be quite beautiful. A lot of the details look like they will be really lovely for the GC community. I do have to agree with Robert though on the disappointment on the bell tower. My heart sunk at seeing that the design did not include that iconic detail, especially with the emphasis on tradition that Greenville upholds.
I also have been hoping to hear of the prospect of green building practices and possibilities for the architecture as GC moves into the future with this building project.
I’m not a visual person, so it’s really important to me if someone could either send me a message on Facebook or call me and tell me what the artist’s renderring looks like. Will the computer lab still be in the basement of Hoag Hall, and the Help desk? Will there be elevators or ramps? I guess those are my main questions. Will Hoag Hall still be in the same place as it was? Will there xtill be an archway type area with vending machines and things?
Greenville needs to focus on the future not that past with a more updated architectural approach. Hogue hall was a nice building and it is always sad when historic buildings must be torn down but I don’t think that means we should go back to “the good old days” for architecture. Greenville could make a statement by trying to get an Architect with a significant influence on today to draw an ever more dynamic and varied student body. The same old same old is not, I believe, what Greenville needs. It needs to make a statement that it is relevant NOW not yesterday. I hope the Hogue Hall re-building committee will reconsider a contemporary/modern/relevant design for the new Hogue Hall building.
It was interesting looking over the initial drawings for Hogue Hall 2. The new interior space will be a boost for the college. My concern with the exterior design is that while trying to get a look similar to the original building it ends up looking like offices I have seen at old manufacturing plants. It seems to have lost to me the “Old Main” academic look. So, I am glad to see that the Board of Trustees have asked for other options. The placement of the building closer to College Avenue is also a concern. I hope that the tradition of Ivy Cutting continues and it seems to leave a much smaller place for that.
I like that the plans also include redevelopment of the grounds immediately surrounding. The issue of the parking lot right in front of the student union has been a challenge for many, and a new traffic circle would aid in assuaging that. I agree with Rob that the concept of a bell tower offers symbolic calling of the students to the GC experience, but I’d be interested in knowing if anyone on the committee is considering aspects of sacred space – what the layout means. Certainly it has to be efficient, handicap accessible, and highly functional, but what about the value of the design as a Christ-centered structure purely on those grounds? Obviously a building in the shape of a cross might be ineffective, but I would hope that we can plan and execute the design of Hogue II with a similar type of integrated perspective that I understand the new chapel is undergoing – functionality and sacredness of space. Thanks for keeping us all updated!
I am one of those many alumni and friends of Greenville College who was initially saddened and discouraged by the announcement that Hogue Hall needed to come down. Like a lot of you, I married a GC alum. Although we lived in Georgia at the time, we had our ceremony in the old Free Methodist Church and our reception on Hogue Hall lawn because we wanted to get married in a special location – our alma mater, the place where we met. For these and other reasons, including Ivy Cutting, Hogue Hall was a special building to me. However, upon learning more about the state of Hogue Hall, I grew to become increasingly comfortable with the notion of “moving on.” I, like others who have written here, did not look forward to the first time I would see Hogue Hall gone. Much to my surprise, though, I was quite impressed with how good it looked to have that new open space. I first saw that space when the temporary fence was up and the lights had not yet been installed. Now that the grass has grown in and lights and benches have been installed, the thought of Hogue Hall being gone is no longer as difficult as I previously envisioned.
I am quite pleased with the idea that the new building may not be built where the original stood. I am a traditionalist, most of the time, but I also like to see progression. This being the case, I would like to propose that Hogue Hall II, or whatever it will be called, be built in a new location and that a memorial tower be erected where Hogue Hall stood.
I’ve looked into this quite a bit and have found many examples of where towers (bell, clock, or otherwise) are located on college and university campuses. In our own network of Free Methodist affiliated institutions, Azusa Pacific University, Seattle Pacific University and Spring Arbor University have bell/clock towers, all of which are beautiful. In addition, other schools with towers predominantly located on campus are Belmont University, Brigham Young University, Furman University, Taylor University, the University of Alabama, and Western Kentucky University. I would like to see a tower erected that would be a near replica of the tower of the old Hogue Hall. I believe it could be located near Claussen Plaza, but further south near where the building originally stood. With this scenario, I suggest naming the tower Hogue Tower. If the look was significantly similar to Hogue Hall then that structure could remain as the college’s identifying piece. The tower could also serve as a location for special events, including Ivy Cutting. Also, this could open up the naming of the new administrative building for major donors. In addition, this would take pressure off of the college to have the new building look like the old one because this would have already been done with the tower.
An example of a memorial tower “replacing” a building of heritage and honor can be found at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas. Their Old Main was destroyed by fire and they have since constructed a memorial tower in its place. From their website: “Howard Payne University’s Old Main Tower incorporates stone from Old Main, the original building on the HPU campus that was constructed in 1890 and destroyed by fire in 1984. Old Main Tower Plaza features engraved granite commemorative bricks bearing the names of graduates, ex-students and friends of Howard Payne University. Old main has held great significance for alumni throughout HPU’s history. Old Main Tower Plaza serves as a reminder of our rich heritage and helps current students gain a richer appreciation of that heritage. Now is your chance to become a part of HPU history – add your name (or the name of someone you’d like to honor) to this special group and leave a memento on the HPU campus.”
Imagine this:
“Greenville College’s Hogue Tower incorporates bricks from the original Hogue Hall. Hogue-Claussen Plaza features engraved granite commemorative bricks bearing the names of graduates, ex-students and friends of Greenville College. Hogue Hall has held great significance for alumni throughout GC’s history. Hogue Tower and Hogue-Claussen Plaza serve as reminders of our rich heritage and helps current students gain a richer appreciation of that heritage. Now is your chance to become a part of Greenville’s history – add your name (or the name of someone you’d like to honor) to this special group and leave a memento on the Greenville College campus.”
For pictures of Howard Payne’s Old Main Tower Plaza, visit http://www.hputx.edu/s/668/howardpayne.aspx?sid=668&gid=1&pgid=1657 or http://hcap.artstor.org/cgi-bin/library?a=d&d=p837.
As for where the new building should go, I’m not sure how many options the college has. My initial thought is that it should be built next to the old Free Methodist Church facing north. This would symbolically place the building facing campus which would reciprocally have campus face the front of the building rather than the back. Also, having the college’s new administrative building next to what was constructed as a Free Methodist church would serve as a symbolic reminder of the college’s heritage and identity.