Brevard College - Campus

Campus

The Brevard College campus is located within the city of Brevard, in close proximity to the city center. The city is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, whose beauty attracts many to the school. The college is located in close vicinity to the Pisgah National Forest and the Blue Ridge Parkway, which both serve as important resources for many of the school's programs relating to art, ecology, environmental issues, and wilderness leadership.

The campus is composed of mainly brick buildings with large greens and abundant trees. White squirrels are the most famous campus residents. Although commonly mistaken for albinos, the white squirrels found on campus are simply color variants of the typical Eastern Gray Squirrel. The city of Brevard is famous for its white squirrels, and the college campus contains them in large numbers. White squirrels are not exclusive to Brevard, they can be found in various places in the United States.

The "crown jewel" of campus is the Paul Porter Center for the Performing Arts, which is host not only to the college's theatre program, but a concert season that often includes world-renowned artists. The centerpiece of the concert hall is one of the region's largest pipe organs, the Kirkpatrick-Coleman Organ. The organ was built by Jaeckel Organs in Duluth, MN in 2003. The organ has a total of 69 ranks containing 3539 pipes.

The last ten years have seen much construction and renovation on campus. Construction of an annex to the Moore Science building concluded in May 2006. A project to ecologically restore Kings Creek, a small creek which runs through campus, is ongoing.

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