Busse Library Digital Archive

- mcauley2
- Side view of McAuley Hall, the first campus dormitory.
- In March, 1955, the Sisters of Mercy began work on a new, college dormitory; the cornerstone laying ceremony followed on October 3 of that year. In September 1956, McAuley Hall welcomed college students into its seven-story structure; the first...
- Mount Mercy Photographs
- mcauley
- McAuley Hall, the first college dormitory, ca. 1956.
- McAuley Hall, the first college dormitory, ca. 1956.
- Mount Mercy Photographs
- 223mcauley
- Room 223, McAuley dormitory.
- An image of room 223 McAuley in 1957 and its resident. The building served as a the first dormitory at Mount Mercy Junior College.
- Mount Mercy Photographs
- regina2
- Regina Hall, the college's second dormitory.
- By the spring of 1964, there was an immediate need for additional, student housing. A campus master plan was constructed, and following the Sisters of Mercy moving to their new convent in March of that year, crews demolished the Greene Mansion,...
- Mount Mercy Photographs
- tunnel
- 1956 tunnel excavation at Mount Mercy College.
- Conceived in 1953, the college's system of tunnels met an immediate need to provide heat to Warde Hall (the original building), the convent, and the new dormitory (McAuley Hall), all by means of pipes housed underground, affording connections...
- Mount Mercy Photographs
- green1960
- An image of the Greene Mansion, 1960.
- The Greene Mansion, used as the convent for the Sisters of Mercy, required over a million dollars of renovation, to preserve its structure, by 1964. With the city of Cedar Rapids unwilling to fund the needed repairs and the Sisters unable to fund...
- Mount Mercy Photographs
- 40sdorm
- 1940 dormitory room in Warde Hall, Mount Mercy Junior College.
- A pair of roommates sharing time in their 1940s room in Warde Hall, Mount Mercy Junior College. The building housed rooms for students, the Sisters of Mercy, a laundry room, bathrooms, classrooms, and offices.
- Mount Mercy Photographs