Winding Hill Location
The Winding Hill facility is located at 401 East Winding Hill Road, just a short drive from Messiah College’s main campus, and conveniently accessible via PA Turnpike and Route 15. It currently houses the School of Graduate Studies Administration (Dean, Enrollment, & Registrar) and graduate programs for Counseling, Education, Nutrition, Occupational Therapy, and Physical Therapy. The state-of-the-art equipment and technology provide an enrichment to the programs.
Mechanicsburg Campus
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, 12 miles southwest of the capital city, Harrisburg, provides Messiah College with a suburban setting and convenient access to the urban centers of Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. Since 1910, the Mechanicsburg Campus has been developed into a 400-acre site with modern, attractive facilities accommodating academic, social, religious, and athletic activities.
Boyer Hall is home to the Boyer Center, the School of the Humanities and the Departments of Education, Human Development and Family Science, Psychology, Social Work, and Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice. Along with classrooms and faculty offices, the building houses a state-of-the-art cinema for film studies and a computerized language lab.
Climenhaga Building is home to the School of the Arts. The building houses a lecture hall/theatre, a small blackbox theatre, a dance studio, practice rooms, art studios, darkroom, theatre work space, and faculty offices. The building’s Aughinbaugh Art Gallery prominently displays artwork of students and well-known artists for community viewing.
Calvin and Janet High Center for Worship and Performing Arts includes Parmer Hall, a 900 seat performance/worship hall; High Foundation Recital Hall with a capacity seating of 150; choral and instrumental rehearsal rooms; state of the art recording studio; and practice rooms, as well as and other studios and faculty offices.
Frey Hall provides educational space for the Departments of Engineering; Management and Business; Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics; Computer and Information Science; as well as some Visual Arts programs. In addition to classroom space, there is a lecture hall, art studios, computer, engineering and physics labs, and faculty offices.
Hoffman Hall provides office space for Learning Services Technology, Information Technology, and the Procurement Department.
Jordan Science Center and The Oakes Museum of Natural History is the home of the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics. This state-of-the-art science facility provides technologically advanced science laboratories and equipment, faculty offices, and classrooms. The Museum showcases the College’s outstanding treasury of large mammal, insect, seashell, and bird collections and serves as a resource to central Pennsylvania, offering visitors a close look at the wonders of creation.
Kline Hall provides space for the Departments of Nursing and Chemistry and Biochemistry programs, with general classrooms, science and nursing labs, as well as faculty offices. A state of the art simulation lab is a recent addition to the Nursing facilities.
Larsen Student Union opened in the spring of 2004 and houses the Intercultural Office, student government offices, is the home to The Pulse the student media hub for students, a casual dining facility, and both indoor and outdoor space for student functions and socializing.
Old Main houses the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost and administrative offices for admissions, financial aid, human resources, operations, business and finance, development, marketing and communications, as well as the Registrar’s Office.
Eisenhower Campus Center (ECC) houses an auditorium/gymnasium which seats up to 2,200 for Chapel services, The Campus Store and Textbook Express, student mailboxes and Post Office, a 650 seat dining room, a private dining room, the Falcon (a retail restaurant), locker rooms, the Alumni Office, and administrative offices. The Career and Professional Development Center, also located in the Eisenhower Campus Center, guides students in the selection of a career and search for employment.
Sollenberger Sports Center is home to the Department of Health and Human Performance and provides exceptional recreational and intercollegiate athletic facilities. This 90,000-square-foot complex houses three racquetball courts, a large arena with four basketball courts, an indoor track and fitness center, a natatorium including an eight-lane swimming pool with a separate diving well, classrooms, faculty offices, locker rooms, and wrestling room. Eisenhower Campus Center provides space for most indoor intercollegiate contests, and houses a weight room and sports medicine laboratory. Students can access the fitness center using their student ID card. Refer to the website for hours of operation: http://www.messiah.edu/info/20897/wellness/1391/fitness_center_and_pool_hours
Starry Athletic Complex includes a lighted artificial turf field for field hockey and lacrosse, a lighted soccer stadium with bleacher seating for 2,000, a newly renovated eight-lane all-weather metric track, ten tennis courts, a baseball field, a softball field, and irrigated practice fields.