{"id":37785,"date":"2011-06-07T08:08:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T12:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=37785"},"modified":"2011-06-09T11:26:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T15:26:38","slug":"honoring-wilbur-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/06\/honoring-wilbur-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Wilbur Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35646\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/wilbur0429d080_lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35646  img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/wilbur0429d080_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Construction of the 110,000-square-foot structure that was built to serve as UConn\u2019s first dedicated library was begun in 1938 and completed in May 1939 at a cost of $424,472 on the grounds of what was then called Connecticut State College. The name was changed to the University of Connecticut the same month the library was completed. In May of 1942 the building was formally dedicated in honor of Wilbur Cross, a four-term governor and a native of the Gurleyville section of Mansfield.\" width=\"700\" height=\"480\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/wilbur0429d080_lg.jpg 700w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/wilbur0429d080_lg-300x205.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 700px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 700\/480;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wilbur Cross Building was originally built to serve as the first dedicated library on campus. Construction of the 110,000-square-foot structure  was begun in 1938 and completed in May 1939, at a cost of $424,472 on the grounds of what was then called Connecticut State College. The name of the school was changed to the University of Connecticut the same month the library was completed. In May of 1942, the building was formally dedicated in honor of Wilbur Cross, a four-term governor and a native of the Gurleyville section of Mansfield. Photo by Peter Morenus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wilbur Cross Building, originally built to serve as the first dedicated library on campus, was dedicated in 1942 in honor of four-term governor Wilbur Cross. Photo by Peter Morenus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[42],"class_list":["post-37785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 06:22:47","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\/37785","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37785"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38129,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37785\/revisions\/38129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37785"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=37785"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=37785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}