In 2016, WutBJU reported on the conditions of campus buildings. That was seven years ago!
You could see what BJU was ignoring for maintenance back then. By comparing the buildings scheduled to be razed to the ones not-yet-on-the-list you could see BJU's facilities priorities. How are things now?
BJU has razed houses. And that's recently -- since Pettit has left.
Long ago they razed my little house at 14 Seminar and the houses on either side at 12 and 16 Seminar. There's a large RV parked there now. Very large.
The Mulfinger's house is gone. All the houses around it are gone.
Now, I don't know when those were razed. I do know that these houses came with the campus and/or were moved to that property -- that BJU did NOT own -- early on. Here's a listing of them from the phone book in 1962:
Through at least the 1960s, those houses were listed as residing on Springdale not Seminar.
Except for what is now 11 Seminar, they are all gone.
But again, I don't know when this happened. Somebody out there reading knows, if they'd like to fill us in.
What I do know is that one house is gone -- the house immediately next door to Bob Jones III's manse. Here's how Google Maps collected the brick house back in December 2018:
But sometime after May 2023, 409 Library Drive disappeared.
When I was on campus on Monday (12/4/2023), you could see nothing but the grass seed poking up above the straw.
So razing is happening. What's next?
