University Avenue is a downtown street in

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Lewisburg is a borough in Union County, Pennsylvania, United States, south by southeast of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Williamsport and north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg. The population was 5,158 as of the United States Census 202 ...

, United States. It runs for around , from St. George Street in the north to Loomis Street in the south. It was the original main access road to the

University at Lewisburg Bucknell University is a private liberal-arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Freeman College of Management, and the Coll ...

(Bucknell University today), located on the northern side of the campus, and still leads to its former main entrance, punctuated by the 1905 Memorial Gateway. The Grove, a wooded area, stands inside the gates. The university's oldest residence hall,

Old Main Old Main is a term often applied to the original building present on college or university campuses in the United States. The building serves today as home to administrative offices, such as the president or provost, but in its early inception may ...

(today known as Daniel C. Roberts Hall), stands atop College Hill, which begins its rise inside Memorial Gateway. It was built in 1858, when the school was known as the University at Lewisburg, and was rebuilt after fire in the 1930s. Several fraternity and sorority buildings stand on University Avenue, including

Kappa Sigma Kappa Sigma (), commonly known as Kappa Sig or KSig, is an American collegiate social fraternity founded at the University of Virginia in 1869. Kappa Sigma is one of the five largest international Fraternities and sororities in North America, fr ...

and

Phi Gamma Delta Phi Gamma Delta (), commonly known as Phi Gam and sometimes written as FIJI, is a North American social fraternity with 139 active chapters and 13 colonies across the United States and Canada. It was founded at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania ...

, while President's House is located at the intersection with Loomis Street, across from Lowry House (former home of hymn-writer Robert Lowry). The

Union County Industrial Railroad The Union County Industrial Railroad is a shortline railroad that operates on approximately 12 miles (20 km) of track in Union County in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania. It is part of the North Shore Railroad System. The line is along ...

passes beside both of these buildings as it crosses University Avenue. Limestone Run, a branch of both Bull Run and

Miller Run Miller Run is a tributary of Limestone Run in Union County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately long and flows through East Buffalo Township and Lewisburg. The watershed of the stream has an area of . The stream has no o ...

, passes beneath University Avenue in its northern third. It empties into the

West Branch Susquehanna River The West Branch Susquehanna River is one of the two principal branches, along with the North Branch, of the Susquehanna River in the Northeastern United States. The North Branch, which rises in upstate New York, is generally regarded as the ex ...

a short distance to the southeast. Its final stretch passes through what was formerly a lush area known as the Meadows.

Notable addresses

From north to south: * 20 University Avenue * Residence Hall, 23 University Avenue * 28 University Avenue (1864) * Bliss–McClure House, 63 University Avenue * Kappa Sigma House (formerly), 64 University Avenue * Phi Gamma Delta House, 78 University Avenue (1915) * Judd House, 79 University Avenue * Cooley Hall, 82 University Avenue * Alumni House, 90 University Avenue * President's House, 103 University Avenue * Robert Lowry House, 110 University Avenue The former

carriage house A ''carriage house'', also called a ''remise'' or ''coach house'', is a term used in North America to describe an outbuilding that was originally built to house horse-drawn carriages and their related tack. Carriage houses were often two ...

beside the Bliss–McClure House was once a stop on the

Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was an organized network of secret routes and safe houses used by freedom seekers to escape to the abolitionist Northern United States and Eastern Canada. Enslaved Africans and African Americans escaped from slavery ...

. The home was once the residence of George R. Bliss, a professor at Bucknell. File:28 University Avenue.jpg, 28 University Avenue, built in 1864

References

{{reflist Streets in Pennsylvania Buildings and structures in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Bucknell University