The destruction crew began removing the outer brick walls of the Dana wing over the weekend. They’ve almost completely cut Dana away from the original library building. In this first photo you can see the opening between the two buildings indicated by red arrows and bracketed by red lines. Without the red lines I think the opening is too difficult to spot. Click on the photo to make it bigger.
There is a gap between Dana and the back of the Library now.
Here is the bare-backed view of Dana today.
A small machine with a jackhammer is inside the 3rd floor.
There is a small machine with a jackhammer attached to its nose inside the 3rd floor. Workers are using it, and a small backhoe, to push debris out of the side of the building.
A large chunk of Dana is falling out the side.
As you can imagine, we are enjoying another jackhammer symphony today in the Powell Reading Room!
Categories: Campus Life, Library Construction & Renovation, SBC History, Sweet Briar College