Archives at Cornell

Cornell Heights Residential Club fire collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 43-58-1023

Scope and content

Newspaper clippings concerning the fire and its aftermath, including ensuing evaluations of campus fire safety and efforts to improve it. Cornell Reports, as well as information on the Six-Year PhD program, are included. The collection also contains a program from the memorial service held on April 7, 1967 for those who died in the fire.

Dates

1967.

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

A fire at the Cornell Heights Residential Club at Cornell University early in the morning of April 5, 1967 resulted in the deaths of eight students and one faculty member. The Residential Club, built in 1953, was a concrete structure two stories high, so it had not been considered very vulnerable to fire.