Lycoming College - Virtual Tour
Lycoming College is a place where you can think deeply and act boldly in preparation for careers of significance and a life of meaning. Our beautiful campus is a blend of tradition and innovation. The buildings and classrooms you’ll see on this tour are just the beginning. Our experiential academics will take you far beyond the gates.
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Krapf Gateway Center
The Krapf Gateway Center opened in the fall of 2019 as part of a larger initiative to reinvigorate the east entrance to Lycoming College. The 28,000-square-foot building houses the Office of Admissions, Outdoor Leadership & Education program, Center for Enhanced Academic Experiences, and the Office of Alumni & Advancement, as well as study and seminar rooms, a large presentation space, a café, a three-story climbing wall, and an outdoor firepit.
Communication Building
The Communication Building is home to our film & video arts program and campus radio station (WRLC 91.7 The Thunder). Just inside the main entrance is our digital media gallery, dedicated to exhibiting the work of new media artists. The building also features a digital media lab, open to film students 24/7, with high-end equipment like Mac computers and the latest editing software. It also holds a fully-stocked equipment room with state-of-the-art cameras, stabilizers, microphones, tripods, lighting kits, and more available for student check-out.See more photos of the Communication Building
Center for Enhanced Academic Experiences
Located on the second floor of the Krapf Gateway Center, the Center for Enhanced Academic Experiences (CEAE) provides students with limitless opportunities to apply their majors and interests in fieldwork, internships, research, and global study. Career advisors specializing in distinct academic areas help students identify and participate in a wide-range of experiences that allow them to develop intellectually, professionally, and personally—putting skills they’ve learned in the classroom into direct practice and giving them a competitive advantage as they enter the job market or graduate school.Learn more about the CEAE
Pellegrino & Clapps Atrium
As you step into the first floor entrance of the Krapf Gateway Center, you’ll find the Pellegrino & Clapps Atrium and the Keiper Suite for Outdoor Leadership & Education (OLE). Through intentionally-designed experiences, OLE enables students to get outdoors and learn new skills like leadership and perseverance. OLE hosts around 100 programs per academic year, from weekend trips like canoeing/kayaking, backpacking, SCUBA diving, rock climbing, and skiing to weekday clinics at the rock-climbing wall or in the Warrior Cycle & Ski Shop. Additionally, OLE partners with academic departments such as biology to host May Term trips to places like the Bahamas or the Grand Canyon.
Office of Admissions
The second floor of the Krapf Gateway Center is home to the Office of Admissions. There are a variety of visit options available for prospective students, from one-on-one tours and open houses to Day in the Life of a Warrior visits—an opportunity that allows you to sit in on classes, eat lunch in the dining hall, and even stay overnight! Our regional counselors are here to support you every step of the way as you apply to Lycoming. They take a holistic approach to evaluating your application; your talents, interests, and career goals are just as important as your academic record.
Trachte Music Center
Lycoming College has a rich history of music, not just as an academic major or minor, but also as a beloved co-curricular activity for students studying a myriad of academic programs. Recognizing the transformative power of music for students, the Trachte Music Center opened in the fall of 2022. The 14,000 square foot building houses a signature rehearsal and recital space, classrooms, soundproof practice rooms, a digital piano lab, and offices for music faculty.
Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall
The Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall, and the Shangraw Performance Hall inside, is often utilized for musical performances and visiting lecturers. From Thursday “Concerts at Noon” to Pulitzer Prize-winning author readings, the ornate hall provides great acoustics in a warm environment.See more photos of Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall
Dr. Walter G. McIver Rehearsal Hall
On the first floor of the Trachte Music Center is our signature rehearsal and recital space: the Dr. Walter G. McIver Rehearsal Hall. Designed with special acoustic tiles for optimum sound and sliding walls to divide the space into multifunctional areas, this state-of-the-art facility provides ample space for choir, band, orchestra, chamber groups, and ensembles to practice and perform.
Upper Quad
The Upper Quad was once home to Old Main (the academic center of campus). Now, it is a scenic hub connecting the new Krapf Gateway Center to the west side of campus. At the center is Founders Plaza, an outdoor seating area for the campus community that honors the history of transformational philanthropy at Lycoming. From here, you can also see Clarke Chapel, the Fultz Quad, the Fine Arts Building, Lamade Gymnasium, and the Academic Center.
The Old Main Bell
With no clocks inside, students were paid to ring the bell atop Old Main to signal mealtimes, class periods, and even wake-up time. When the bell cracked in 1943, it was displayed prominently between Clarke Chapel and the Fine Arts Building. After its frequent disappearance and reappearance in various spots on campus, the bell was permanently cemented in place. Rumor has it that if you rub the bell before a big test or game, you’ll have good luck!
Clarke Chapel
Built in 1939, Clarke Chapel has long served as a haven for public discourse and tradition. In 1958, five years prior to the “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed the Lycoming College community in Clarke Chapel about “Facing the Challenge of a New Age.” For nearly 50 years, the Clarke Building was home to our music department. With the construction of the Trachte Music Center in 2022, the Chapel is now mostly used for performances, worship, and community events, including our annual tradition of the Candlelight Service.
Fine Arts Building
The Fine Arts Building, constructed in the 1920s as Hilltop Gymnasium, features large painting, drawing, and figure modeling studios with twenty-foot ceilings, abundant north light, and original hardwood basketball court floors. The printmaking studio is well-equipped for relief, intaglio, collagraphy, lithography, monotype, and screen-printing. The large sculpture studios include the foundry, ceramics studio, and wood shop. The photography area includes two large black and white darkrooms, an alternative process darkroom, and a studio space. There is also a lecture room for art history, colloquiums, and visiting artist lectures.See more photos of the Fine Arts Building
Lamade Gymnasium
The 2000-seat Lamade Gymnasium serves as home to four of our 17 NCAA Division III Warrior athletic teams: men’s and women’s basketball, women’s volleyball, and wrestling. Opened in 1980, the large wooden floor allows for two full volleyball courts and plenty of additional basketball practice space. The close-to-the-action feel helps create one of the best game-day atmospheres in the region, carrying the excitement of 22 conference title teams. All Lycoming students receive free admittance to regular-season events with their student ID.
Lamade Gymnasium Natatorium
The 200-seat Lamade Gymnasium Natatorium serves as home to the College’s men’s and women’s swimming teams. Located across the hallway from Lamade Gymnasium, the 25-yard, six-lane competition pool is ideal for Warrior practices and meets, as well as open swims, pool workouts with varsity athletic teams, water polo games, and even SCUBA diving lessons throughout the year. All Lycoming students receive free admittance to Lycoming meets with their student ID.
Keiper Recreation Center
The Keiper Recreation Center, constructed in 2003, is attached to the Lamade Gymnasium and Natatorium. The facility includes four multi-purpose courts, a 1/8-mile suspended track, and both a lower-level plate loaded/free-weight room and an upper-level cardiovascular fitness center. The Center is used for many intramural sports and pickup games, but also special College celebrations and events like Relay for Life and the annual concert. All facilities are open to students, staff, and faculty.
Penny's Plaza
Located outside Wendle Hall (the academic center or “AC”) is Penny’s Plaza—an outdoor courtyard that includes shaded seating for students to dine, study, hang out with friends, or host student-run club meetings or events. In early fall and spring, students often grab a coffee or lunch inside at Café 1812 and take a break between classes on the Plaza.
David B. Sykes Gate
Opened only once a year for New Student Convocation, the David B. Sykes Gate is a symbolic tradition welcoming the incoming class to Lycoming College. After Student Senate officers open the gate, the incoming class processes through together, walking to the center of campus where they are cheered on by a pathway of faculty and staff in regalia before making their way to the Convocation ceremony.
Snowden Library
Snowden Library, located in the Wendle Hall academic center, is an ideal place for studying and doing research. The layout of the four-floor library makes it easy for students to find the right learning environment for their needs. The first floor is designated for group projects, class meetings, and research, while subsequent floors gradually get quieter as you progress upwards. The third floor features the Academic Resource Center, Writing Center, and Math Center, where accomplished students and staff teach study skills, provide subject-specific tutoring, and help students edit their writing.
Academic Center Lounges and Classrooms
The second and third floors of Wendle Hall house new classrooms, computer labs, and study lounges renovated in the summer of 2019. This is where a majority of students have their humanities, social sciences, and business classes. Each end of the hallway features a lounge with collaborative workspaces, private study rooms, and conversation areas, providing a place for students to study and rehearse presentations in between classes or retreat to on the weekends.
Pennington Lounge
On the first floor of Wendle Hall is our largest common area on campus: Pennington Lounge. At one end is Café 1812, a great place for students to grab Warrior Coffee, a snack, or lunch in between classes and meet with professors. The main lounge area features modular tables and seating, making it a popular hub for study groups, foreign language conversation tables, and events hosted by our 80+ student-run clubs and organizations.
Mary L. Welch Theatre
The Mary L. Welch Theatre, with its thrust-style stage and seating for 204, features industry-leading equipment, including a console that integrates lighting with intelligent moving fixtures and software for sound effects and projections. Four main stage shows are produced each season (with at least one being a musical theatre production). The theatre department also boasts the Dragon’s Lair Theatre (a flexible black-box theatre for student-produced shows and class showcases), a scene shop, a design studio, and a costume shop.
Heim Science Building
Across from the Academic Center is the Heim Science Building. This is where most of our biochemistry, biology, and chemistry classes are held. The entire facility, including the specialty labs for cadavers, genetics, biochemistry, tissue culture, animals, and microbiology, is equipped with state-of-the-art technology available to students as early as their first year. Additionally, a 116-acre biology field station just 15 minutes from campus provides a real-world hub for students studying ecology.
Forrest Hall
This co-ed residential hall features upperclassmen housing with suite-style, single rooms. These rooms include an extra-long twin bed, dresser, wardrobe, desk, and desk chair. The building has two lounges, a kitchenette, a laundry room, and a vending area.
Heim Science Center Laboratory
Over the last several years, most of the corridors, laboratories, and classrooms in the Heim Science Building have undergone significant renovations to support the departments’ commitment to undergraduate research and laboratory experiences. While many of these experiences are built into coursework, there are also many opportunities beyond the classroom. From our chemistry and biochemistry Endowed Summer Research Fellowships where students work alongside faculty to our Clean Water Institute internships that immerse students in the analysis of local waterways and community outreach, science at Lycoming is hands-on.
Lynn Science Center
The Lynn Science Center, constructed in 2015, houses modern classrooms, computer labs, student lounges and study rooms, faculty offices, and the state-of-the-art Detwiler Planetarium. There are also several research and teaching labs with cutting-edge equipment accessible to astronomy, astrophysics, and physics students starting freshman year.
Douthat Commons
The Douthat Commons is an upperclassmen, semi-independent, apartment-style living option. Fully air-conditioned, 3-5 person units feature a kitchenette/living area, one full bath (select units have an additional half bath), and at least two bedrooms. Apartments come with basic furnishings, including a sofa/loveseat, chairs, side tables, a bistro table, beds, dressers, desks, and a closet.Look Inside: Photo Gallery
Lynn Science Center Cleveland Atrium
Each space in the Lynn Science Center was designed to emphasize flexibility and collaboration. Modular furniture enables professors to set up the classroom for traditional lectures as well as discussions and small group work. Each classroom is equipped with a digital projector, flat screen TV, and chalkboards. Private study rooms on each floor also have movable furniture as well as large flat screens that connect to students’ laptops to allow them to work on both independent and group projects.
Detwiler Planetarium
Featuring a 35-foot-wide dome and a state-of-the-art digital projection system, Detwiler Planetarium enables our students, as well as the greater Williamsport community, to recreate the night sky and astronomical bodies in a comfortable learning environment. After taking a few classes, students can learn to operate the cutting-edge technology and gain experience in outreach and teaching by putting on their own planetarium shows.
Wertz Student Center
Located on Warrior Way is the Wertz Student Center. On the lowest level of the building, you’ll find our dining hall, operated by Parkhurst Dining Services. We offer everything from scratch-made and local farm-fresh favorites to options for vegans, vegetarians, and gluten/allergy sensitivities. On the second floor is Burchfield Lounge, the mail room, Jack’s Corner (late night dining), and the Streeter Campus Store. On the third floor are the offices for Student Involvement, Civic Engagement & Personal Development, and Counseling Services.
Williams Hall
This co-ed residential hall features upperclassmen housing with suite-style, double rooms. These rooms include two extra-long twin beds, dressers, wardrobes or a walk-in closet, desks, and desk chairs. The building has a TV lounge, two study rooms, a kitchenette, a laundry room, and a vending area. The first floor is home to the Creative Arts Society (CAS).
Rich Hall
This all female upperclassmen dorm features suite-style, double and triple rooms. Each room includes extra-long twin beds, dressers, desks, desk chairs, and a large shared closet. Named after the Rich family (of Woolrich outdoor clothing), this building features a TV lounge, a kitchenette, a laundry room, and a vending area. Also located in Rich Hall are the offices of Residential Life, Health Services, Public Safety, and Dining Services.
Crever Hall
This co-ed residential hall features upperclassmen housing with suite-style rooms of 2-4 students; each bathroom suite connects two gender-specific rooms. These rooms include extra-long twin beds, dressers, desks, desk chairs, and a shared closet. The building has a TV lounge, a kitchenette, a laundry room, a vending area, and a multipurpose room.
North Fultz Quad
The Fultz Quadrangle is the centerpiece of campus and a year-round destination for a variety of activities. In the warmer months, students can be seen studying, hanging out with friends, playing frisbee, or having class in the grass! In the winter, snowmen, snowball fights, and sledding down the Wesley Hall hill are commonplace. The Quad is also used for many campus events, such as graduation, the campus carnival, outdoor movies, the Homecoming bonfire, and the involvement fair (an opportunity for students to learn about all the student-run clubs and organizations on campus).
Wesley Hall
This co-ed residential hall features freshman housing on the first floor and Affinity Housing communities on the second and third floors. The freshman floor features double rooms with several single occupant bathrooms, a central lounge, and a kitchenette on each wing, while Affinity floors (designed to house students who share a common interest) have suite-style, 3-4 person rooms, and a kitchenette and lounge on each wing. All rooms include extra-long twin beds, dressers, wardrobes, desks, and desk chairs. The building also has a seminar room on the first floor and laundry room and vending area in the basement.See more photos of Wesley Hall.
East Hall
This residential hall houses upperclassmen from five fraternity and sorority organizations. The building features double and triple rooms and is co-ed by floor. Each floor has a community bathroom and a private lounge with kitchen and a study/library. Each room includes built-in closets, extra-long twin beds, dressers, desks, and desk chairs. The building has laundry rooms and a vending area on the lower level, as well as the East Hall Coffeehouse (a space that can be reserved for social events by any student group).See more photos of East Hall.
Oliver Sterling Metzler Gate
Opened only on Commencement day, the Oliver Sterling Metzler Gate is a graduation tradition that symbolizes the end of one chapter and the beginning of life as Lycoming College alumni. Faculty and staff lead graduates on a procession through the gates each year, then form a pathway on both sides to applaud as their former students make their way to the south end of the Quad for the ceremony.
South Fultz Quad
The Fultz Quadrangle is the centerpiece of campus and a year-round destination for a variety of activities. In the warmer months, students can be seen studying, hanging out with friends, playing frisbee, or having class in the grass! In the winter, snowmen, snowball fights, and sledding down the Wesley Hall hill are commonplace. The Quad is also used for many campus events, such as graduation, the campus carnival, outdoor movies, the Homecoming bonfire, and the involvement fair (an opportunity for students to learn about all the student-run clubs and organizations on campus).
Long Hall
Originally built as the College’s library, Long Hall is now home to most of our administrative offices, including the President, Provost, Dean of Students, Assistant Dean of First-Year Students, Registrar, Financial Aid, Business Office, and more.
Asbury & Skeath Halls
Both Asbury and Skeath Halls are freshman-only residence halls featuring double rooms. The buildings are co-ed by wing and/or floor (each having a gender-specific community bathroom with separate shower stalls). Each room includes extra-long twin beds, dressers, desks, desk chairs, and closets. Both buildings have a TV lounge with a kitchenette and vending area as well as laundry rooms. Every floor has a live-in resident advisor (RA), an upperclassman student who provides individual support and programming to build relationships and foster success.
Shangraw Athletic Complex
A few blocks north of campus, on the corner of Union Avenue and Packer Street, is our Shangraw Athletic Complex, which includes David Person Field at Girardi Stadium (football), UPMC Field at the Doug and Dawn Keiper Stadium (soccer, lacrosse, field hockey), and our softball field. Keiper Stadium was constructed in the fall of 2022 as part of the larger Shangraw Athletic Complex Enhancement Project, creating a greater game day atmosphere and viewing opportunity for spectators while also providing athletic teams and coaches with more modernized locker rooms, offices, restrooms, and a training room.
Art Gallery
The Lycoming College Art Gallery, located just a block from campus on West Fourth Street in downtown Williamsport, hosts around ten exhibitions each year by both student and professional artists. The annual Senior Show is judged by a nationally acclaimed juror and is the culmination of the thesis project for all studio art majors. Additionally, above the Art Gallery are sizeable art studios assigned to senior art majors that can be accessed by the student 24/7.
Downtown Williamsport
There is so much more to explore beyond Lycoming’s campus. Just a five-minute walk away is downtown Williamsport, a thriving business and arts district with many dining and entertainment options. From the Community Arts Center, which hosts off-Broadway shows, comedians, and even Lycoming College concerts to art galleries, boutiques, coffee shops, and breweries with live music, Williamsport has something for every student to enjoy.