The Round House was a drive-in burger restaurant named for the shape of its building. It opened about 1949 at the corner of Chrisway and College Boulevard. A popular hangout for students in the 1950s, it featured a soda fountain and dining room. The building was expanded and became a private medical clinic in the 1960s and then the university’s student health center in 1972, a function it fulfilled until the health services moved into the new Norco Building in 2009. It is now the Chrisway Annex.
Written by Rachel Taylor, Summer 2019 intern