Mercersburg Academy - Other Campus Facilities

Other Campus Facilities

• The Burgin Center for the Arts, named for former headmaster Walter Burgin, is the new fine arts building. Standing on the former site of Boone Hall, the Burgin Center provides areas for Stony Batter (the school's theatre club), Musical performance groups (concert and jazz bands, orchestra, and student bands), Visual Arts, and other activities. The yearbook (Karux) and newspaper staff also call the Burgin Center for the Arts their home.
• The Nolde Gymnasium, which contains a large gymnasium, brand-new squash courts, and fully equipped fitness center, and a soon to be Olympic-size swimming pool, among other equpiment.
• The Chapel, built under the supervision and planning of Dr. William Mann Irvine by the renowned architect Ralph Adams Cram of the firm Cram and Ferguson, a gothic-style church which houses a pipe organ and a traditional carillon.
• The Lenfest Library, named for H. F. Lenfest, who also provided funding for the Burgin Center, is designed to almost mirror the Chapel. It may be noted that the front doors to both the library and the chapel line up perfectly.
• Traylor Hall, a strictly administrative building housing admissions personnel, the Dean of Students, and the Headmaster's office.
• Ford Hall is the dining hall for the school. Students sit down daily to enjoy a family-style meal. Downstairs in Ford is the student lounge and cafe, game room, newly renovated School Store, and the Summer Programs offices. The school will break ground for a new student center, the Simon Student Center at Ford Hall, in 2012.