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The oldest standing building on campus, which currently houses the English Department. University Hall was designed by architect Gurdon P. Randall in the Victorian Gothic style and is composed of Joliet limestone transported to Evanston by rail and barge via Lake Michigan. [1]
University Hall is the oldest original building on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston, Illinois, and the second building to have been constructed after Old College, which stood on campus until the 1970s.
University Hall (1869) is the oldest building on campus. It was designed by Gurdon P. Randall and took three years to construct. The high-Victorian Gothic building was made with the same type of Joliet limestone that was used in the historic Chicago Water Tower.
1869: Construction on University Hall, today’s oldest campus building, was completed following the tumultuous years of the Civil War.
University Hall is the oldest original building on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston, Illinois, and the second building to have been constructed after Old College, which stood on campus until the 1970s. The building has served a wide range of different roles since its construction, and currently houses the university's English ...
The first University building, originally located at Davis Street and Hinman Avenue in Evanston, no longer survives, but University Hall, built in 1869 as an all-purpose facility for the still-struggling institution, remains both a busy academic building and a symbol of the University.
University Hall with its high gothic style is the oldest building on campus, an enduring symbol of Northwestern’s links to the past and its hopes for the future. Its cornerstone was finally laid in 1868, 13 years after Northwestern opened its original building, a three-story frame structure at Davis and Hinman.
