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After Old Main was destroyed by fire in 1912, the Academic Building was designed in 1914 by campus architect Frederick E. Giesecke, '86, and Samuel E. Gideon. Its beaux-arts classical design created a four-storied reinforced concrete structure faced with brick and crowned with a copper dome. The front facade features four ionic columns supporting a classical pediment. Exterior cast stone belt course, lintels, cornices, columns, and panels were made of red granite aggregate produced on the construction site. Inside, the rotunda is framed by twenty-six doric columns, contains a mosaic of the university seal in the floor added in 1978, and houses a Liberty Bell replica presented to the college in 1950.
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