Do you recognize the entrance in this photo?
Building Entrance
From Joel Crisalli:
I stumbled on your site early this
morning with my wife at the Newark Airport Admiral's Club while waiting for our
flight home to Dallas. I'm fairly certain that the art-deco style doorway
in your mystery photo was the entrance to what had been the Ballantine Brewery
building at 53 Rector Street. When I started at Rutgers this was one of
the principal buildings of our campus and housed a number of departments as well
as the Dana library (which was located in the large area formerly used for
brewing tanks.) I recall that this doorway was used by my geology
instructor as an example of many types to stone from the area. I seem to
remember the black stone used at the base as basalt.
From Caroline Grossmann:
The brick building with double doors
and four figures carved in metal over them is the entrance to the Rector St.
building that had at one time been the College of Arts & Sciences Building for
Rutgers. In an earlier life it was a brewery. Some of its rooms had very low
ceilings with two or three arches in them. They were arched because beer vats
fit under them (laid on their sides).
