Campus Facilities
McCallie's campus consists of 110 acres (0.4 km2) on the western slope of Missionary Ridge, the site of a major battle during the American Civil War. It is located 3 miles (4.8 km) east of downtown Chattanooga, and a major expansion program over the past few years has extended the campus southward and increased the number of athletic fields. The campus stretches from McCallie Avenue on the north to Main Street on the South and from the crest of Missionary Ridge on the East to Dodds Avenue on the West.
The second-newest building on campus is Pressly Hall, a 56-bed residence hall for freshmen that was completed before the beginning of the 2007-2008 school year. The newest building, Burns Hall, opened for the 2010-2011 school year. Burns, located adjacent to Pressly on the Ridge, is a 56-bed residence hall with an astonishing view over the city of Chattanooga. In the Spring of 2004, a 32,000-square-foot (3,000 m2) dining hall opened, and it more than tripled the amount of space available in the former dining facility (Alumni Hall). The 1999 completion of McDonald Hall provided a new home for the Middle School and made room for McCallie’s first-ever sixth grade class. The Hunter Arts Building and the 5-story Maclellan Academic Building opened their doors in 1976.
McCallie’s most prominent facility may be the 180,000-square-foot (17,000 m2) Sports and Activities Center (SAC) completed in 1993. This building contains five basketball courts, a 25-yard (23 m)-by-25-meter pool, a wrestling room, a weight room, an indoor track, a racquetball court, and a climbing gym. Other athletic facilities include the 4,000-seat Spears stadium recently outfitted with artificial turf, a six-lane track, two indoor and twelve outdoor tennis courts, three baseball fields, 2 lacrosse fields, a soccer field, 2 intramural fields, and an outdoor recreational swimming area known as McCallie Lake. The diving tower, which rises out of the middle of the lake, is the oldest structure on the campus.
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