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Volume 9, Issue 2 - Feature #2320

Castle On The Hill & Science Hall

I found where a Frank Ingels, sculpture and graduate of Northwestern Normal School in 1915, donated the Lincoln monument to Northwestern. Did this occur the year he graduated in 1915? Did he scupture it himself? Does anyone have any more information on Frank Ingels? Thanks for helping us preserve a piece of this northwest Oklahoma past!

NW Okie - 2007-01-15 13:51:30

I should also add that Abe Lincoln still sits in this same location. By determining the year that Abe came to reside on campus, in addition to the construction of the old Science Building, one could perhaps narrow down the date of the photograph.

Rodney Murrow - 2007-01-13 22:47:40

I don't know the year of the photo either, but many folks have copies of it. The smoke stack was connected to the boiler room, which still sits immediately south of the Student Center (the former Wyatt Gym) and is still in use. After an earthquake a few years ago, centered near Capron, the university's swimming pool and the smokestack were both damaged. The stack was razed as a preventive measure; the pool was abandoned and is no longer in use (I believe the pool area will be re-designed with the coming renovation of the Physical Education facility).

Rodney Murrow - 2007-01-13 22:41:45

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