Old Hill Campus (circa 1900)
- alignelli
- Feb 7, 2019
- 2 min read
This picture is of the front of the Upper School, which faces toward the current Academic Center. Around this time, the Quad was being used as a football field, and there would be frequent games hosted there.
These are pictures of the exterior of the Meigs house. The first two show the actual mansion - the one Matthew Meigs originally inherited. As the school grew, so did the building. Matthew Meigs and his successor, his son John Meigs, added a total of three additions to the original building. The first was a dormitory addition that attached next to the house. The second was a multipurpose building with an underground pool and meeting rooms. The third and final addition was the Middle School building, which stood for many years until the current Academic Center was built.
The inside of the Meigs house was the original location of the Hill school and was filled with artifacts. It was he mansion inherited by Matthew Meigs around the time of the Hill School's creation. Unfortunately, the Meigs house burned down, and all inside was lost.
While a photographer was visiting campus, he took the opportunity to climb up the chimney in the science building and take a picture of the campus from a birds-eye view. Here, you can see the Middle School building from the back and the town of Pottstown in the distance along the Schuylkill River.
This was the military training that was instituted at Hill in the early 1900s, and in the background you can see dormitories and faculty housing behind the current library.
This fire burnt down some faculty housing and dormitories on campus (circa 1940s). While this is not the Meigs house, there are rumored to be some pictures of the Meigs house burning still in existence.
The chapel was like this until the 1950s, in addition to the Upper School building.
Landscape pictures of Hill's campus.
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