Residence halls Penn State Mont Alto offers two residence halls to students: Mont Alto Hall and Penn Gate II. • Mont Alto Hall offers traditional dorm life. All three floors of the building are broken up into an east and a west side, with only one gender belonging to a particular wing. Each room holds two people, although it is possible to obtain a single room given certain circumstances. The rooms are not carpeted, and lack a central AC unit. They do however, include a heater. Each resident is provided with a desk, a phone jack, an Ethernet connection, a dresser, and a closet. The "Microfridge", a combination microwave and refrigerator, is standard as well. Every wing of the building includes a bathroom that the entire hall shares, making for two per floor. Mont Alto Hall also includes a basement with washers/dryers and study rooms. This hall is a mere 4-5 minute walk from virtually anything on campus, with the exception of the Penn Gate dorms and other parts of the campus east of PA 233 (softball fields, etc.). • Penn Gate II offers four-person suite living. Similar to Mont Alto Hall, the building is three stories tall. While halls themselves are not gender specific, each individual suite is. The four-person suite includes two spacious bedrooms as well as a bathroom that is shared by all four people in the suite. Each room is carpeted and also includes a central air conditioning unit. Penn Gate II is located across Route 233 and is near the campus' baseball and softball fields. • Penn Gate I, also located across Route 233 was built in the late 1960s and demolished in 2023 after remaining vacant for several years.
Classroom buildings • Conklin Hall was originally built as a dormitory by students of the forestry school starting in 1909 and completed in 1911. The building is now home to the Student Center, Student Affairs offices and the archives. • The General Studies Building is where the majority of classes at Penn State Mont Alto are held. The three-story brick building includes many traditional classrooms for lectures. The first floor holds an auditorium that is frequently used for special shows and speakers, as well as large lecture classes. In addition to the auditorium, the first floor holds the Learning Center, a place where students can go to study with a professional or student tutor. Several computer labs are held in the building as well. • The Science and Technology building is primarily used for science courses at Penn State Mont Alto. In it, you will find several labs specific to different courses such as chemistry and nursing. Many general education courses are held in this building as well, particularly those with large class sizes. It was built in the 1970s. • The Bookstore has a computer lab in the basement. Classes such as Computer Science and Management & Information Systems are typically held here. • The Allied Health Building was opened in 2022 and is a learning hub for the campus' nursing, occupational therapy assistant, and physical therapist assistant programs. The new facility includes simulation laboratories and an ambulance port for the Nursing program, enhanced clinical lab space and equipment for the PTA program and a modern simulated living space for the OTA program.
Other notable buildings • Wiestling Hall, located in the center of the campus mall, was built in 1807 and is the oldest building in the Penn State system outside of the
Penn State University Park campus in
State College, Pennsylvania. Originally built as an iron master's house it has served as the campus dining hall, classroom and dormitory. The second floor of Wiestling Hall is home to faculty and staff offices. The third floor of Wiestling has never been renovated, and remains true to the 1807 design. This third floor is only accessible through two hidden entranceways on the second floor of the building. Local legend holds that Wiestling is haunted by a ghost named Sarah and by the ghost of Col. Wiestling, the ironmaster who lived there. Wiestling Hall was originally called the "Hughes Mansion." It was built by Samuel and Daniel Hughes, owners of the original Mont Alto Iron Works. Samuel Lane supervised the construction of the Iron Works and the Mansion House between 1807 and 1808. Holker Hughes, Isaac Waterman, Thomas Bever and Col. George Wiestling, built the reconstituted Mont Alto Iron Works in 1864. Wiestling made the Hughes Mansion House his home and named it "Wiestling Hall." Wiestling Hall was modernized and now it serves as the student building and houses the campus Student Government Association office. • History has it that
John Brown spent time at Emmanuel Chapel before his raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859. Penn State Mont Alto bought the chapel in 1992 for $1 and reopened it in 1999. • The dining hall, formerly known as the Millstream Cafe, and later known as The Mill Cafe, was built in 1968. In 1988, the band
Phish played a show at the location. • September 10, 2014, Penn State Mont Alto opened its Veterans Center. The center was spearheaded by the Penn State Mont Alto Student Veterans Association (SVA), which received a $10,000 VetCenter Initiative grant from the SVA and The Home Depot Foundation partnership to refurbish the spring house on campus, which was built in 1905. It had previously served as a faculty lounge and mailroom. Now it has computers for Internet access and space for student veterans to study and gather. ==Arboretum==