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The building contains a 700seat auditorium, used for theater productions, musical performances and College assemblies, as well as a 200-seat arena theatre.

The President Andrew Johnson Museum and Library, the oldest academic building on campus, houses the collection of the seventeenth president’s private and family papers and family artifacts. The facility also holds the original College library, which is the largest extant library dating before 1807 in the Southeast.

The newest academic facility on campus is the Ronald H. and Verna June Meen Center for Science and Math. The approx- imately 100,000-square-foot building includes wings for biology, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, environmental science and nursing. The Meen Center also features cutting edge technology including spaces equipped for interactive distance learning, a large lecture hall, and lab space and research areas for both faculty and students.

The Herbert L. Shulman Center is built in a distinctive circular design. Studios and offices for the Art and Design program are located in the building as well as the Allison Art Gallery, which features exhibits of student work and guest artists throughout the year. Other academic facilities include the Charles Oliver Gray Complex.

A major hub of student activity on campus is the Niswonger Commons building, which houses a full-service post office, Students are able to use the latest technology for their assignments in the labs in the Ronald H. and Verna June Meen Center for Science and Math, which opened in January 2017.

Tusculum’s athletic and recreation facilities are among the best among East Tennessee institutions of higher learning. Inside the Niswonger Commons are a gymnasium-swimming pool complex that incorporates the 2,000seat Pioneer Arena, a weight room/fitness center as well as the Student Activity Center housing the Recreational Sports and Campus Activities programs.

Through the generous support of business and community leader Scott M. Niswonger, an alumnus who is a member of Tusculum’s Board of Trustees, a modern athletics complex enhances campus. Named in Niswonger’s honor, it includes an indoor sports complex, Pioneer Field and Pioneer Park. The indoor sports complex includes a fieldhouse that features an indoor practice and soccer space with a special high-quality, realistic turf.

Pioneer Field’s seating capacity is 3,500. A modern press box facility, built to blend with the architectural style of the campus’s most historic facilities, is adjacent to the field, on which Tusculum’s football, soccer and lacrosse teams play.

The baseball stadium, Pioneer Park, is used by both the Tusculum Pioneers baseball team and the Greeneville Reds professional team. The stadium has a seating capacity of 2,500 and features a covered seating area, locker facilities offices and a museum of Tusculum and local baseball memorabilia.

Residence halls include historic Haynes and Welty-Craig halls and Katherine Hall, as well as

Mastrapasqua Hall and five other buildings featuring apartment-style housing and three residence halls in the Charles Oliver Gray Complex.

More than a decade ago, Tusculum built the Knoxville Regional Center near the intersection of Pellissippi Parkway and Lovell Road to house the Graduate and Professional Studies program in that city and serve as the headquarters of the program in southeast Tennessee.

Nine buildings and the Arch are on the National Register of Historic Places and form the Historical District on campus: Doak House (1830s), Old College (1841), McCormick Hall (1887), Welty-Craig Hall (1891), Virginia Hall (1901), The Thomas J. Garland Library (1910), Haynes Hall (1914), The Arch (1917), Rankin Hall (1923) and Tredway Hall (1930).