{"id":13502,"date":"2015-05-05T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=13502"},"modified":"2015-05-05T08:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T12:00:52","slug":"clemson-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/clemson-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemson House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Landmarks-Postcard-ClemsonHouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13432\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Landmarks-Postcard-ClemsonHouse-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"Landmarks-Postcard ClemsonHouse\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/Landmarks-Postcard-ClemsonHouse-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/Landmarks-Postcard-ClemsonHouse-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/Landmarks-Postcard-ClemsonHouse-705x448.jpg 705w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/Landmarks-Postcard-ClemsonHouse.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><b>Perched on a hill overlooking Bowman Field<\/b>, Clemson House has been home to faculty, staff, students and the families of more than one president over the past 65 years. Constructed in 1950 by Daniel Construction Company of Greenville, it was known as \u201cCarolina\u2019s smartest hotel.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen it first opened, Clemson House featured a large dining room on the first floor, a club (non-alcoholic) on the lower level, seven stories of rooms and apartments, and a penthouse with the best view in town.<br \/>\nOriginally intended to house faculty, staff and retired faculty, the apartment-style hotel was first pressed into limited service for student housing in the early 1970s.<br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_half  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  \" ><p>The barbershop on the first level has weathered six decades of changing hair styles, offering both haircuts and conversation. Clemson House was also home to a radio station and broadcasting facility from the 1950s until the early \u201980s.<br \/>\nIn 1973, President Robert Edwards recommended changes to transition Clemson House into a dorm, but said that full-time residents could remain as long as they wished. None had the staying power of architecture professor Joe Young, who had been the first full-time resident in 1950. After five decades, Young said his goodbyes in 2000. The penthouse is named for him, as well as \u201cJoe\u2019s Place,\u201d the bar located at the Madren Conference Center.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n* Note: Corrected on 5\/28\/15 to reflect that the radio station housed at Clemson House from the 1950s until the early \u201980s was not a student station. Thanks to Van Fair (the &#8220;F&#8221; in WSBF) for that correction.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_half  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  \" ><p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p63Bn8-3x3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13578\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/16238845101_3a140afa1d_z-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Laye puts the finishing touches on a haircut for long-time client Tom Campbell at the Clemson House Barber Shop, Jan. 9, 2015. The small barbershop, located in one of Clemson's iconic student dormitories, has been in operation for 64 years. Laye is the third generation of his family to cut hair there, as his father and grandfather did before him. (Photo by Ken Scar)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/16238845101_3a140afa1d_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/16238845101_3a140afa1d_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p63Bn8-3x3\"><strong>Haircuts and History: Web-only\u00a0story and video<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perched on a hill overlooking Bowman Field, Clemson House has been home to faculty, staff, students and the families of more than one president over the past 65 years. Constructed in 1950 by Daniel Construction Company of Greenville, it was known as \u201cCarolina\u2019s smartest hotel.\u201d When it first opened, Clemson House featured a large dining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[693,912,1274,1667,1843,2293,2692],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landmarks-legends","tag-clemson-house","tag-daniel-construction-company","tag-fluor-daniel","tag-joe-young","tag-madren-conference-center","tag-president-robert-edwards","tag-spring-2015"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/Landmarks-Clemson-House.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13502"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}