History & local legend
Pennsylvania Hall was Gettysburg College's first building, begun in 1836. It originally housed classrooms, student rooms, and other college functions. During the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, it became a hospital for wounded men from both armies; later renovations converted it into administrative offices.
Its best-known ghost story connects those two uses. Two college administrators reportedly took the elevator and found themselves looking into a Civil War hospital when the doors opened. Wounded soldiers lay before them, with medical attendants working among the patients. When the doors closed and then opened again, the scene had disappeared.
