Old Main (Frostburg State University)

2 by an act of the General Assembly under Governor Lloyd Lowndes.1 Old Main was the first building for which the cornerstone was laid on September 4, 1899 by the mayor of Frostburg, Joseph Bear.

[1] The school and therefore building was made possible by lobbying efforts by Benson Oder, who at the time was the editor and publisher of the Frostburg Mining Journal.1 When originally constructed the state of Maryland appropriated $20,000 for its construction.1 It also allotted for $5,000 annually for its maintenance.

There are currently at least whispers of the haunting of Old Main, but these for the most part tend to range from playful curiosity to being regarded as a fictitious urban legend.

The building was examined by Ross Allison, a founding member of Advanced Ghost Hunters of Seattle Tacoma, who believed something paranormal was involved.3 It is unknown if any students had in fact ended their own lives in Old Main or if there are currently any experiences ongoing in the building, but the urban legend of the haunting of Old Main has persisted for many years and is still discussed occasionally.

There are occasionally talks and rumors of renovating or tearing down Old Main, but there are currently no concrete plans for the building aside from a proposed instate of historical status for the property.4 [1] [2]