Johnstone Hall

Located on west campus, it originally overlooked the student laundry, the coal-burning Physical Plant and the university fire department, and beyond that the stadium and Lake Hartwell.

Erected in 1954, the Johnstone Hall complex design became a model for college dormitories, implementing a new raise-slab construction method, a practice which was featured in many architectural magazines at that time.

Clemson's first African-American student, future Charlotte North Carolina mayor, Harvey Gantt, resided in Johnstone Hall in 1963.

Situated on sloping ground directly opposite the John C. Calhoun mansion of Fort Hill, Johnstone replaced a group of free-standing barracks dating from Clemson's early military college days.

An open air loggia on the ground-floor (level six) at the hilltop overlooked an assembly quadrangle designed to accommodate cadet formations.

A year later, all University construction projects were halted due to lack of funding and the remodel, as well as the concurrent demolition, was never carried out.