Visitors will walk into the cyclorama building from underneath the painting before going up escalators to a viewing platform. The pieces missing from the bottom of the painting won’t be replaced, but will be covered by the diorama that will be installed at the base of the painting.
On the cover of the book, Thornwell Jacobs, president of Oglethorpe University, shovels the first dirt during the ground-breaking ceremony of the construction of Lupton Hall in 1919.