Beauty in a Rugged Outpost
SPU’s first faculty members, Alexander and Adelaide Beers, arrived from Virginia to find a beautifully detailed building standing in stark contrast to its rugged surroundings. Adelaide Beers wrote, “Some attempt had been made to clear away the dense timber, and huge stumps blackened by the logger’s fire reared their unsightly arms on either side of the footpath, or cow trail as it was called.”
Alexander Beers eventually became SPU’s first president, and in October 1940, the “Red Brick Building” was christened Alexander Hall.