{"id":37,"featured":0,"modified":"2023-06-14 17:16:50","latitude":30.632953695009543793048578663729131221771240234375,"longitude":-97.67343505167985995285562239587306976318359375,"title":"South Western Bell&#039;s Second Site","subtitle":"This seemingly revered bell was once undesired, stored at the Methodist Church<br />","fullsize":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/c4847c4589f2756f2c889de221f7c453.jpg","address":"","all_locations":[],"zoom":17,"creator":["Teddy Hoffman '24"],"description":"The South Western Bell, now located outside of the McCombs Campus Center, has moved quite a bit in its lifetime. <br />\r\n<br />\r\nAfter being in use for almost 50 years at the site of the Old Campus, the bell became dormant after 1916. Southwestern’s administration attempted to sell the bell, but after no buyers pursued the offer, the administration elected to store the bell at Georgetown’s First Methodist church.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nThe bell sat on the Southwest corner of the church building, where this Placing Memory pin is located on the map. Here, it began its first period of inactivity, until it was taken back to campus by Laura Kuykendall in 1926.","sponsor":null,"accessinfo":"","lede":"","website":"","related_resources":[],"factoids":[],"files":{"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/fullsize/c4847c4589f2756f2c889de221f7c453.jpg":{"id":74,"mime-type":"image/jpeg","title":"South Western Bell, fixed on campus","description":"creator | 2023 | Teddy Hoffman &#039;24","thumbnail":"https://placingmemory.southwestern.edu/files/square_thumbnails/c4847c4589f2756f2c889de221f7c453.jpg"}}}