Rutherford Hall is Coming Down

The brick is coming off this week on .

The handrails in the stairways, the floor, valuable materials--all these have already been removed. Now comes the brick, as well as the asbestos and lead. The slate on the roof and the wood timbers will also be preserved.

By the end of June, Rutherford Hall--part of it picked and preserved, some reused and recycled, others simply discarded--will be gone. Workers will be building a new residential hall in the Myers Quad in July, and finishing it a year later, said Danny Sniff, director of Campus Architects at UGA.

The cost for tearing down the historic WPA structure is $225,000 to $250,000, he said. The building was built in 1939. It housed generations of students during its lifetime. 

, students and preservationists on the local, state and national level. Even the National Trust for Historic Preservation got involved.

All to no avail.