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Round House

Round building with grass and trees in the foreground
Chrisway Annex today.
Round House restaurant from 1952 with vintage cars
The Round House in 1952.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Round House was a drive-in burger restaurant named for the shape of its building. It opened about 1949 at the corner of Chrisway and College Boulevard. A popular hangout for students in the 1950s, it featured a soda fountain and dining room. The building was expanded and became a private medical clinic in the 1960s and then the university’s student health center in 1972, a function it fulfilled until the health services moved into the new Norco Building in 2009. It is now the Chrisway Annex.

Written by Rachel Taylor, Summer 2019 intern