Photo: Exposing the top of the Poor House foundation (facing west).
The Pettigrew site was investigated in 1997 prior to the construction of Hyde Hall. When first surveyed for archaeological remains, it was believed that the site was largely associated with the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house which stood there from the beginning of the twentieth century until the early 1930s. Archaeological investigations demonstrated that it also was the site of a privately owned dormitory known as the Poor House, constructed during the second quarter of the nineteenth century and torn down before 1880.
Stoneware Jug from the Poor House 
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