As the College profile increased through such programs as Saturday morning science classes, its enrollment increased and there was a need for a dormitory. Following the construction of several student union and life buildings with plans for additional residence halls, it was decided to erect a campus shop that would centralize the mail room and the College bookstore.

 

By June 1962 construction of the campus shop was completed  on the Shepard/Rice Property. This was followed by plans to erect Loretto Hall and St. Joseph’s Hall on the Morris Gordon Property that was purchased by Emmanuel. At the same time, due to the poor-quality campus food, many students patronized Yueh’s Café on the Gordon Property. As a result, the College invited the café’s owner Howard Yueh to operate a café in the campus shop.

 

Through the years the campus shop not only served as a bookstore and café but was also used as a general gathering place, an area to register for classes and conducted elections. It was also used by English High School during building construction and renovations. By 1983, after the retirement of Howard Yueh, the bookstore moved to a different campus location and the building was used by the students as a night club. The campus shop was demolished to allow for the construction of the Merck Research Laboratory that opened circa 2001.

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