-contributed by Emily Gainer & Jodi Kearns.
In 2010, the CCHP moved into the former Roadway building. Over the past 9 years, renovations have been made to every floor of the building, and we’re excited to announce that renovations are complete!
The Drs. Nicholas A. and Dorothy M. Cummings Center for the History of Psychology is the home of the Archives of the History of American Psychology, the National Museum of Psychology, and the Institute for Human Science and Culture (IHSC). The final renovations were completed on the 3rd and 4th floors, which house the IHSC. The IHSC is a multidisciplinary institute that promotes education and research in the history, preservation, documentation, and interpretation of the human experience. The mission of the IHSC is to explore the human condition through document/object-based, experiential education in arts, humanities, and science.
During the year-long renovations, we took photographs to document the changes and keep a record of our own history. Here are before and after photographs:
Exterior upgrades, including window replacement and additional lighting, were a part of the renovations on the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology building.
The 3rd floor of the IHSC includes classroom spaces. The Museums and Archives Certificate Program, along with other courses, will be taught here beginning Fall 2019.
The 3rd floor also includes a conference room.
One of the most interesting architectural elements of the building spans the 3rd and 4th floors. This atrium includes wall space suitable for exhibit installation.
An important part of the renovations was the addition of a stairway connecting the 3rd and 4th floors. Construction crews cut through the concrete between the floors and added this staircase.
A front view of the stairway. Notice the reinforcement and construction supports in the before photograph. Lots of planning went into this architectural element!
IHSC reception desk
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Reclaimed barn wood from Pennsylvania was used throughout the 3rd and 4th floors. It was incorporated into the wall details and used to create unique benches for extra seating.
The 4th floor library is already open to the public on Wednesdays (11am-4pm) and Thursdays (11am-8pm) where the David P. Campbell Postcard Collection and the Brozek Slavic and Germanic Language Cultural Books are available for use and research. Soon, other key collections of the IHSC will be relocated into the 3rd floor stacks, including the Jim and Vanita Oelschlager Native American Ethnographic Collection and the Lee L. Forman Collection of Bags.
