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Students' Building (Vassar College)
The Students' Building on the campus of Vassar College in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, US, houses the school's All Campus Dining Center (ACDC or Deece) as well as additional multifunctional student space on its second floor and a cafe on its third floor. Designed by Joseph Herenden Clark of McKim, Mead & White and built in 1913, the structure originally housed a variety of different student organizations and school functions. In 1973, it was converted into a campuswide dining hall; it again underwent renovation in 2003 that returned multipurpose student functionalities to its upper floors.
==History==
James Monroe Taylor, fourth president of Vassar College in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, wrote in 1901 of a dearth of a dedicated social space on campus "not devoted to college work but to college recreation." He envisioned a building akin to Harvard's University Club and the University of Pennsylvania's Houston Club; with a swelling student body size and rapid decentralization of the campus over the course of the first decade of the 1900s, the need for such a structure become even more crucial.
The Students' Building was erected in 1913 after its cornerstone was laid on September 25, 1912. Funding for its construction came from an anonymous donor who sought to provide for the "exclusive needs and interests of student organizations" with the gift and who specified the name ''Students' Building'' for the structure. Mary Babbott Ladd of the Vassar class of 1908 was later identified as that donor.
Until World War II, dining at Vassar was an elegant affair with table linens and serving maids, but after the war was over, these features were never brought back to student life. In 1973, the All Campus Dining Center, also called the ACDC or the Deece, opened within the building, serving as a replacement to individual dining rooms in each of the college's dormitories. The old system had proved too costly and overcrowded, necessitating the ACDC's creation. The $3.5 million renovation was conducted by Walker O. Cain and Associates, with over $1 million of the funds coming from friends and family of Babbott Ladd. An $11 million renovation in 2003 was designed by Finegold Alexander + Associates Inc.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Project Details: Vassar College - Students' Building )〕
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