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A GREATER GETTYSBURG Main Building on the Academy Campus Completed in 1916 and renamed Huber Hall in 1941. vide meals for at least some of its students. Granville reported that the cost of the building, furnished and equipped, was about $50,000.»7 When Charles H. Huber retired in the spring of 1941, the Main Building was named after him in recognition of his more than forty years of service to the College. Hereafter in this work it will be called Huber Hall. Although unable to raise most of the money which it sought in the campaign begun in December 1913, the College was forced over the next several years to make a number of changes in its plant, due largely to the pressing needs of an increasing enrollment. First, in December 1913 the board ordered Dean Bikle and Professor Nixon to vacate the campus houses which they had occupied for many years, so that these facilities could be converted to dormitory use. The dean's appeal to the board to reverse itself was unsuccessful, and by the fall of 1914 Cottage Hall had been transformed into a thirty-room dormitory. Second, by September 1915 the College had converted its house on the southwest corner of Washington street and Lincoln avenue into a fourteen-room dormitory. Called the Athletic Field House, it was described in the catalogue as a facility "designed especially for the use of the members of the College 147This figure did not include the cost of a central heating plant placed in the basement of Stevens Hall to serve the buildings on the preparatory campus or for the necessary connections to those buildings. In June 1917 Granville told the board that the total costs incurred were $54,400. A. R. Warner, Waynesboro, was the contractor for thus and many future College building and renovation projects. 51