University of Minnesota Old Campus Historic District

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University of Minnesota Old Campus Historic District

The University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public university research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States....
Old Campus Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation....
, includes a number of buildings on the Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota. The city lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state's Capital ....
campus that date back to the oldest days of the university. The buildings include:

Architect: LeRoy Buffington

Originally built as the Mechanic Arts building. It is the oldest existing building on the Minneapolis campus.

Architect: Warren H.

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Eddy Hall, 1886

Architect: LeRoy Buffington

Originally built as the Mechanic Arts building. It is the oldest existing building on the Minneapolis campus.

Music Education, 1888

Architect: Warren H. Hayes

Originally the Student Christian Association building. It once housed the Child Welfare and Music Education departments, but is now vacant.

Pattee Hall, 1889

Architect: J. Walter Stevens

The first Law School building. The Law School later moved to Fraser Hall and then to the West Bank.

Pillsbury Hall, 1889

Architects: LeRoy Buffington with Harvey Ellis

Harvey Ellis

Harvey Ellis was an architect in Rochester, New York and St. Paul, Minnesota. He also worked as an illustrator for The Craftsman and designed furniture for Gustav Stickley....

Originally named Science Hall, and named for Governor John S. Pillsbury

John S. Pillsbury

John Sargent Pillsbury was an United States politician, businessman, and philanthropist. A Republican Party of Minnesota, he served as the Governor of Minnesota from 1876 to 1882....
. Harvey Ellis, Buffington's assistant, was responsible for the Romanesque details in the design. Ellis was inspired by Henry Hobson Richardson

Henry Hobson Richardson

Henry Hobson Richardson was a prominent United States architect of the 19th century whose work left a significant impact on Boston, Pittsburgh, Albany, New York and Chicago, among others....
, but the building also contains elements of the Prairie School

Prairie School

File:Habs flw oak park home.jpgPrairie School was a late 19th and early 20th century architectural style, most common to the Midwestern United States....
, Arts and Crafts

Arts and Crafts movement

The Arts and Crafts Movement was a United Kingdom, Canada, and United States aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century....
, Gothic

Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late Middle Ages. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture....
, and Victorian

Victorian architecture

The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly employed during the Victorian era. As with the latter, the period of building that it covers may slightly overlap the actual reign, 20 June 1837 ? 22 January 1901, of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom after whom it is named....
styles. The building is built with two different colors of sandstone

Sandstone

Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock Particle size . Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust ....
. The buff-colored sandstone is from quarries near Banning State Park

Banning State Park

Banning State Park is a Minnesota List of Minnesota state parks stretched along of the Kettle River near Sandstone, Minnesota in Pine County, Minnesota....
, while the red sandstone is from the Fond du Lac formation. The clay tile roof and copper eaves serve to protect the sandstone from the infiltration of water, and they also add to the appearance of the building.

Nicholson Hall, 1890

Architects: LeRoy Buffington with Harvey Ellis

Harvey Ellis

Harvey Ellis was an architect in Rochester, New York and St. Paul, Minnesota. He also worked as an illustrator for The Craftsman and designed furniture for Gustav Stickley....

Built as a chemistry laboratory, until that department moved to Northrop Mall. It served as the men's student union until Coffman Memorial Union

Coffman Memorial Union

Coffman Memorial Union is the student union on the Minneapolis, Minnesota campus of the University of Minnesota, United States. It anchors the south side of Northrop Mall, on the south side of Washington Avenue , overlooking the Mississippi River....
was built. The building was recently renovated with $24 million of structural improvements and interior updates, and reopened to the public in January 2006.

Wulling Hall, 1892

Architects: Allen Stem and Charles Reed

Reed and Stem

Reed and Stem was an architecture firm based in St. Paul, Minnesota. It was a partnership between Charles A. Reed and Allen H. Stem . Formed in 1891, the successful partnership captured a wide range of commissions....

Built as Medical Hall, and later served as the pharmacy building.

Burton Hall, 1894

Architects: LeRoy Buffington and Charles Sedgwick

The main library building on campus until Walter Library was built in 1924. Before Burton Hall was built, the library collection was housed in Old Main. A series of fires in Old Main convinced the Board of Regents that a new, fireproof building was needed. President William Watts Folwell

William Watts Folwell

William Watts Folwell was a President of the University of Minnesota.Folwell was just 36, and a American Civil War veteran, when he became the University's first president, serving from 1869 to 1884....
first consulted with LeRoy S. Buffington on a library design, but the Regents overruled him. After much debate between the Regents and the faculty, the design was finalized, with the exterior designed by LeRoy S. Buffington in a Greek Revival style and the interior designed by Charles Sedgwick in a rather ornate Victorian

Victorian architecture

The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly employed during the Victorian era. As with the latter, the period of building that it covers may slightly overlap the actual reign, 20 June 1837 ? 22 January 1901, of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom after whom it is named....
style. The building also included an assembly hall which doubled as a chapel.

Armory, 1896

Architect: Charles Aldrich

Built for athletics and for military drills.

Wesbrook Hall, 1898

Architect: Frederick Corser

Frederick Corser

Frederick Gardner Corser was an American architect of homes and public buildings in the United States states of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota, especially in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area....

Originally the Laboratory of Medical Science. It became the home of the dentistry department in 1912.

Jones Hall, 1901

Architect: Charles Aldrich

The first home of the physics department. The building, a Renaissance Revival structure, was renovated in 2005 to provide ADA access and to update building systems. Historic features such as stair treads and banisters, paneled doors, arched ceilings and the terra cotta façade were preserved in the renovation.

Child Development, 1903

Architect: Clarence H. Johnston Sr.

Originally built as the Mines Building until damaged by fire in 1913. The building was later used for University High School.

Shevlin Hall, 1906

Architect: Ernest Kennedy

The site of Old Main, the first building on campus. Shevlin Hall was built as a student union for women until Coffman Memorial Union was built.

Folwell Hall, 1907

Architect: Clarence H. Johnston Sr.

Built to house departments that were displaced after Old Main burned in 1904.