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The Commons at Ursinus College

Owner/User: Ursinus College

Location: Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Design Statement: Strategically situated at the prominent
intersection of Main Street and College Drive in Collegeville,
the Commons marks the entrance to the Ursinus College
campus. The 17,255 SF addition and renovation to the
existing Keigwin Hall, a historic brick farmhouse, will
provide the private liberal arts college’s 170-acre campus
and 1,435 students with a café, bookstore, meeting space,
and administrative offices. Campus tours both begin to Montgomery County. Repeated again in a site wall that
and conclude at this node of activity, emphasized by a becomes the multipurpose pavilion, the stone forms a threshold
spectacular view of the emblematic Bomberger Memorial into a courtyard surrounded by the volumes that make up the
Hall, a turn-of-the-century Romanesque structure built of Commons.
Pennsylvania blue marble.

Taking cues from the mica stone currently throughout
much of the campus, The Commons integrates the stone in
two gable walls reminiscent of an agrarian structure native

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