{"id":19701,"date":"2014-12-09T15:36:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T15:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=19701"},"modified":"2025-01-28T21:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T02:36:57","slug":"from-the-soe-archives-happy-dodranscentennial-castleman-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/12\/from-the-soe-archives-happy-dodranscentennial-castleman-building\/","title":{"rendered":"From the SoE Archives: Happy Dodranscentennial, Castleman Building!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Old English Text MT';font-size: 18pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/OldTimeThumb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19800 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/OldTimeThumb.jpg\" alt=\"OldTimeThumb\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 100px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 100\/100;\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\">From the SoE Archives<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>We like to look forward here at the School of Engineering (the motto, after all, is &#8220;Engineering the Future&#8221;), but it&#8217;s always a good idea to occasionally stop and take a\u00a0look back. Hence, our new feature, &#8220;From the SoE Archives.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Castleman1939.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19759  img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Castleman1939-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"Castleman1939\" width=\"348\" height=\"216\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 348px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 348\/216;\" \/><\/a>Before 2014 runs out on us altogether, let&#8217;s acknowledge a\u00a0milestone. This year marks the dodranscentennial (75th anniversary)\u00a0of the Castleman Building. It was originally called the Engineering I building (although it was\u00a0actually the second dedicated engineering building on campus). The building was\u00a0renamed in 1970\u00a0for Francis L. Castleman,\u00a0the dean who served from\u00a01946 to 1954. Castleman is home to both the Civil &amp; Environmental Engineering department and the Engineering Deanery &#8211; as well as the team that humbly toils away to bring you Momentum every few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>It was completed for about $300,000, and an additional $130,000 was spent for laboratory equipment. The building originally was 48,776 square feet, but underwent a major renovation and expansion that began in 1991 and was completed in 1995.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have a piece of School of Engineering history that you want to know more about? Let us know, and email\u00a0William Weir\u00a0at weir@engr.uconn.edu<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Engineering the Future&#8221; is the motto here, but it&#8217;s always a good idea to occasionally look back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":224120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[40],"class_list":["post-19701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 23:09:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224122,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19701\/revisions\/224122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19701"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=19701"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}