 Furthermore, it was becoming expensive to maintain such an old, and potentially unsafe, building.A publication from the Bryn Mawr College Campus Heritage Initiative in 2004 reflected that despite the iconic status of the Deanery at Bryn Mawr, the "loss of the Deanery was probably inevitable," due to its structural problems.The garden, however, was spared and remains today behind the new Mariam Coffin Canaday Library.