Green Terrace Hall, women's dormitory, Nebraska State Normal School at Kearney, 1001 W. 26th Street, from the southeast. The 6-1/2" x 4-1/2" black and white photograph taken from a higher vantage point shows mainly the rooftop of the dormitory and a vehicle on a road winding through open country into the distance. Written on the photograph is: "State Normal Dormitory and Road to Lake, Kearney, Nebr.
University of Nebraska at Kearney, Archives, Calvin T. Ryan Library
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Green Terrace Hall was a three-story building 150 feet long and 60 feet deep made of brick and red sandstone. It contained 74 rooms, 16 halls, 40 closets, 6 bathrooms, 4 toilet rooms with basins, 8 water closets, 4 kitchen sinks, 6 vestibules, and 12 fireplaces and mantels. It was occupied in 1903 by the Dr. Chittenden Young Ladies' Seminary and was purchased by the city of Kearney for $50,000 in 1903 and deeded to the State of Nebraska as part of the subsidy Kearney offered the State to get the Normal School located in Kearney. The building was demolished in 1959 -1960. Students sometimes called the building "Cockroach Castle".
