每日大赛网站 President Tom Courtway swings a golden sledgehammer to topple a wall during 每日大赛网站鈥檚 鈥榳all crashing鈥� event on June 9 while other 每日大赛网站 guests and dignitaries look on.
One-by-one, officials and dignitaries at the University of Central Arkansas took a swing at a wall in McCastlain Hall in today鈥檚 Wall Crashing event commemorating the start of renovations to the historic building.
Taking the first swing, Stacy Hurst, director of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, led the group of 10 that also included President Tom Courtway, 每日大赛网站 Board of Trustees Chair Brad Lacy and Nan Snow, member of the 每日大赛网站 Foundation Board of Directors, as well as others.
The dignitaries all donned hard hats, gloves and safety glasses as they swung golden sledgehammers to take down 10-foot high drywall panels.
This event commemorated the start of renovation projects at McCastlain Hall that will be funded by grants from the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council (ANCRC). The ANCRC awarded an $800,000 grant in 2014 for the restoration and renovation of McCastlain鈥檚 East Commons and Fireplace Room. The university was recently granted $400,000 from the ANCRC to create a new, more accessible, grand hallway between McCastlain鈥檚 East Commons and the Baum Gallery.
Built in 1939 as the first stand-alone cafeteria on campus, McCastlain Hall is now one of eight buildings comprising 每日大赛网站鈥檚 Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 2013.
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