Apparently, the apartments that we knew in my day as Bryn Mawr Courts and most recently as College Hall Apartments is being demolished at present by Shipley?

Sorry not sorry, but that is sad.

If you live nearby, send photos. I am looking for current photos of demolition and photos of it whole if you have them.

I am not thrilled that my alma mater is doing this, but they bought the property and sometime in institutions have the soul of nothingness. Truthfully, they need faculty housing. So they’re being a little shortsighted in my humble opinion.

Truthfully the place was amazing. It stood without burning to the ground with all of the Villanova parties and everything over the decades, but it just shows you how tough the building was.

Someone told me they might be turning that corner into a parking lot? And I found where the school put up a video about the demolition beginning. Just for the record that gator mascot is still the damn dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. Also dumb? Celebrating the destruction of a historic asset.

Anyway, if you have photos of the demolition in progress or old photos of the building, you can send them through private message to my blog’s Facebook page. Just kindly indicate what kind of photo credit you would like.

Maybe for decades the place has been more infamous than a historic asset, but the sad thing is it actually was a historic asset.

You know, I’ve never been a big donor to Shipley‘s annual fund over the decades, this demolition of this building kind of makes me to feel less inclined to give them money in the near term and I hate to be that way, but what is wrong with adaptive reuse?

Anyway, if they had had their way, Beechwood House still wouldn’t be standing today either. They are not the ones who saved Beechwood. It was alumni and the community.

All demolition photos added so far are courtesy of Jeff S.