Northern Arizona University
352 pages, 11 x 8 1/2
Hardcover
Release Date:15 Jun 2011
ISBN:9780816529810
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Northern Arizona University

Buildings as History

The University of Arizona Press
Any university is composed of faculty, students, and staff. But these living components change over time and in varying degrees, while the campus buildings are more permanent, remaining for decades, a century, or longer.
This book looks at the buildings that have graced the campus of Northern Arizona University from its opening in 1898 to the present. The school began with a single building, Old Main, and it was joined by five other structures prior to World War I. In the following decades the campus remained relatively small, expanding to approximately twenty-five structures by the late 1950s. During the tenure of President J. Lawrence Walkup (1957–1979), the university effectively doubled in size, spreading southward and adding more than forty buildings, including an entire south campus academic center. Since 1979 the campus has witnessed the addition of more than thirty structures, most as infill within the existing campus layout.
Arranged chronologically, this extensively illustrated volume briefly describes the history of every building that has been a part of the university’s physical layout. The authors describe various structural aspects of each building and provide entertaining and informative anecdotes about events and people associated with the structures. By combing the university’s archives, Drickamer and Runge have turned up photographs of each building as it looked shortly after construction and at present, providing a fascinating visual time lapse.
With more than two hundred images of campus buildings, many of them never before published, Northern Arizona University: Buildings as History provides a wonderful pictorial chronicle of the campus that will interest architectural historians as well as all those who have called NAU home.
Lee C. Drickamer retired from Northern Arizona University in 2009. He is the co-author of several widely used textbooks in animal behavior and mammalogy. His lifelong interest in history has resulted in several books as well, including Leaders in Animal Behavior: The Second Generation, co-edited with Donald Dewsbury. Peter J. Runge is the curator of manuscripts and digital content at the Cline Library at Northern Arizona University and has worked at several other academic special-collections libraries over the course of his career.
List of Illustrations
Foreword, by John D. Haeger
Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on the Organization of the Book
Notes on Maps and Aerial Photographs
Interpreting the Northern Arizona University Landscape: Clues to the American Scene, by Thomas Paradis
Northern Arizona University: A Brief Introduction
Abbreviations, NAU Name Changes, and NAU Presidents

1 1899–1947: The Formative Years
2 1947–1957: President Lacey Eastburn and the Transition to Arizona State College
3 1957–1979: The Walkup Era and Becoming Northern Arizona University
4 1979–1993: The Maturation of Northern Arizona University
5 1993–2009: The University Centennial and Transition to a New Millennium
6 Campus Roadways

Building Northern Arizona University
Appendix: List of Buildings
Notes on Sources
References
Index
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