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A Welcome Center? If you plan on welcoming tourist the retention of the old buildings is a plus. Build the welcome center on vacant land. Retain the character of the campus. I say this on behalf of alumni Heyward Jordan Blackwell, my uncle now deceased, and James Heyward Blackwell, Jr., my grandfather now deceased.
It's ridiculous that a school that is so filled with an abundant history would try to demolish a building that is full functioning AND the oldest building on the campus
It is essential that we preserve history especially at HBCUs. As a Jackson State alumna, It saddens me that a welcome center couldn't be placed in another location across campus. Finally, that building is dedicated to my fraternity brothers; it is a memorial to honor them.
It is our duty to honor the legacy that has been handed down by those who came before us. It is reprehensible for us to destroy such an historic edifice for such a trivial replacement that could be built elsewhere in the vacinity. Let us not throw away our history so haphazardly.
This a MAJOR part of our Lincoln Legacy.The oldest building on the campus is the first building that stakeholders see when they enter the first HBCU. That is SO profound and historically significant. Why isn't this seen as a selling point?! It is also fiscally beneficial to restore it rather than to demolish and rebuild.
I strongly support saving this historic building
Such a historic building, built in the very year that slavery ended in the United States, would appear to me to have immense meaning to all African-Americans.
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Other universities with historically significant buildings, seem to incorporate that architecture in new construction. Why can't Lincoln do the same.The new would not exist if not for the old...respect it!
A Welcome Center? If you plan on welcoming tourist the retention of the old buildings is a plus. Build the welcome center on vacant land. Retain the character of the campus. I say this on behalf of alumni Heyward Jordan Blackwell, my uncle now deceased, and James Heyward Blackwell, Jr., my grandfather now deceased.
It's ridiculous that a school that is so filled with an abundant history would try to demolish a building that is full functioning AND the oldest building on the campus
It is essential that we preserve history especially at HBCUs. As a Jackson State alumna, It saddens me that a welcome center couldn't be placed in another location across campus. Finally, that building is dedicated to my fraternity brothers; it is a memorial to honor them.
It is our duty to honor the legacy that has been handed down by those who came before us. It is reprehensible for us to destroy such an historic edifice for such a trivial replacement that could be built elsewhere in the vacinity. Let us not throw away our history so haphazardly.
This a MAJOR part of our Lincoln Legacy.The oldest building on the campus is the first building that stakeholders see when they enter the first HBCU. That is SO profound and historically significant. Why isn't this seen as a selling point?! It is also fiscally beneficial to restore it rather than to demolish and rebuild.
I strongly support saving this historic building
Such a historic building, built in the very year that slavery ended in the United States, would appear to me to have immense meaning to all African-Americans.
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Other universities with historically significant buildings, seem to incorporate that architecture in new construction. Why can't Lincoln do the same.The new would not exist if not for the old...respect it!