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O'Shaughnessy Auditorium and the Cold War

12460 Derham Hall Building Overview from the only building to a base for the University
The O'Shaughnessy Auditorium and Fine Arts complex look very different than the other buildings on campus; they feature far more concrete and fewer windows. These design differences are directly impacted by the Cold War which had shaken the country, buildings were built with the intention of surviving an atomic blast. This meant that buildings had fewer windows, concrete and included a basement that could function as a fallout shelter.

The entire university was a fallout shelter for the Highland Park neighborhood, in the event of an atomic bomb the residents of Highland Park would come to St. Kate's for shelter. The Bureau of Civil Defense worked to provide the university with all needed supplies; food, water, medical supplies and even cardboard toilets. The toilets are still on campus today, they were forgotten by the Bureau after the Cold War. The Bureau was supposed to collect all supplies after the war as they were property of the government; around a dozen or so cardboard toilets remain in a crawl space.

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