The Gatehouse, also known as the Homewood Lodge, stood at the entrance to the property of William Wyman, and was built around 1875 in the same Italianate style as Homewood Villa. (The Homewood Villa, built in 1853, no longer stands. It was torn down in May 1955.) The Department of Gas Engineering used the building during the 1920s and early 1930s. It then stood vacant for a time, until it was renovated in the late 1930s, and possibly occupied briefly by the Camera Club. The chemical engineering department took over the building in 1939, using it for graduate student labs. During this time, two students in the department also lived on the second floor. The News-Letter moved its offices into the building in October 1965.
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