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1. The College Playhouse

The College Playhouse

Description: The old armory and gymnasium building was converted to a playhouse for Oregon State’s excellent theatre program around 1951. It was later named Mitchell Playhouse, in memory of C. B.Mitchell, longtime chair of the Speech Department and director of the Theatre program. The building was used as the playhouse until 1990, when fire safety concerns closed it for that purpose. In 1992 it reopened as the Valley Gymnastics Center.

2. View of the Trysting Tree looking south, with the Armory and Mitchell Playhouse in the background

View of the Trysting Tree looking south, with the Armory and Mitchell Playhouse in the background

Description: The Armory is now known as McAlexander Fieldhouse and the Mitchell Playhouse has been repurposed as the Gladys Valley Gymnastics Center.

3. Slats Gill reviewing the groundbreaking for the OSC Coliseum

Slats Gill reviewing the groundbreaking for the OSC Coliseum

Description: What is now known as Gill Coliseum was opened in 1949. The arena is named after Amory T. "Slats" Gill, who coached basketball at Oregon State from 1928 to 1964.

4. Aerial view of OSU athletic fields

Aerial view of OSU athletic fields

Description: Photo shows Parker Stadium (under construction) in foreground; Gill Coliseum on the left; track and baseball fields and tennis courts in the upper left corner. This scan was taken from the photograph housed in the News and Communications Services Photograph Collection (P 057).

5. Gill Coliseum construction

Gill Coliseum construction

Description: Photo of Giil Coliseum construction was used in the Oregon Stater in October of 1949.

6. Gymnasium

Description: College Gymnasium, ca. 1915. The building now known as the Gladys Valley Gymnastics Center was built in 1898 and served a variety of functions through the early 1900s, including armory, gymnasium, and examination hall. It later served as Mitchell Playhouse before being converted back into a gymnasium in the early 1990s.

7. Armory gymnasium dance decorations

Armory gymnasium dance decorations

Description: Armory gymnasium decorated for a dance. It shows the interior of what later became the Mitchell Playhouse and then the Gladys Valley Gymnastics Center. Photo taken between 1898 and 1910.

8. Old gymnasium and armory

Old gymnasium and armory

9. Campus buildings

Campus buildings

Description: Campus buildings shown from the left are: Men's Gymnasium (now Langton Hall), Forestry Building (now Moreland Hall) Poultry Building, and Fairbanks Hall to the far right.