 It was here that Senda Berenson, the college's directory of physical education, adapted the then-new game of basketball for women, and where the first formal women's basketball game was played.In the 1970s, the school first planned to demolish the building as part of a planned expansion of Neilson Library.This was protested by the campus community, and was eventually replaced by a proposal to move the building to make way for the expansion.