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A man with a jackhammer (above) can be very effective in tearing up floors.
Holes are being made through parts of Milner’s floors to make way for an
elevator shaft. The floors (below) will be modeled into classrooms and/ or
offices.
Milner project expensive
By LISA JUNOD
Battalion Staff Writer
“Mil n er Mot el,
We know it well,
Best d a m n d or m
This side of H ell!”
No longer will yells like, “Milner
Motel” resound through the plas
tered halls of Milner Roach Manor.
No longer will the flaking walls echo
with sounds of, “Roaches, bite!” in
the old dorm near Sbisa Dining
Hall.
Five weeks ago A.P. Boegner
Demolishing Co. began gutting the
building in preparation for its con
version to an office building.
Long considered the rattiest
dorm on campus, Milner Hall was
built in 1911 to satisfy the need for
student housing. Before its con
struction, many students had been
forced to live in tents. When the
need for housing became acute,
Milner and Legett Halls were con
structed for $75,000 apiece. Now,
the conversion of Milner to an office
and classroom building will cost
$1,950,000, 26 times as much.
Built with solid brick walls, the
building has been “tough to tear
apart,” according to Boegner and
his crew. The men working on the
job operate deafening air hammers
and manuever Bobcats (small
front-end loaders) around in the
building. They say that they “enjoy
smashing things up” but enjoy the
pay more than anything.
While many students would
enjoy seeing the ancient building
torn apart, some former residents
say they’ll miss the large, airy rooms
and the peeling paint on the walls
they felt free to write on.
“It was really a nice place, once
you got used to it, ” one old resident
lamented. “I had one of the biggest
rooms on campus all to myself, and
plenty of good company...”
Right now the building is filled
with broken windows, piles of rub
ble and linoleum tiles scattered
across the floor. The walls of the
rooms, painted emerald green, ro
bin’s egg blue and a host of other
colors, are covered with layers of
dust and grime generated by the
demolition equipment. Beneath the
makeshift staircase that the workers
have constructed to replace the old
stairs lies a burial ground for old
radiators.
Within two weeks the demolition
will be completed, and Jones and
Williams Construction Co. will take
over renovation of the building. By
August of next year it will house
seven classrooms and 100 offices,
and no more will it hear the tread of
Milner roaches down its newly
polished halls...
THE BATTALION Page 11
WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1976
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