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- Notes:
- Photograph of Administration Building columns. In the background is the Gymnasium addition portico.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Front of Administration Building and Training School featuring porticoes and freestanding iconic columns. View looking South. Designed by Ernest W. Arnold, the Administration Building was WMU's first building, opening in 1905. It was also known as the Education Building and by 1967 as East Hall. In July 2015, it was renamed again as Heritage Hall, the home of the WMU Alumni Center.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Exterior of McCracken Hall taken September 1970 includes the addition of the paper pilot plant and walkway. Cars are parked in the foreground. It was used as a chemistry facility. The first building on West Campus, McCracken Hall was named after well-known faculty member, William McCracken, head of the chemstry department from 1907-1939. A Paper Industries Laboratory was added to McCracken Hall in 1959 to support the nation's second Paper Technology program. One wing was torn down in 2017. The building was demolished in 2019.
- Date Created:
- 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Training School portico in winter. View looking south and features a student on sidewalk. The Training Hall was an addition to the original Administration Building completed in 1909.
- Date Created:
- 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of Allen Maybee (standing) and Floyd Haight (seated) cleaning second floor windows of the old Administration Building in summer. Allen Maybe was the son of Harper Maybee, professor. Floyd Haight was the temp supervising janitor.
- Date Created:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of the “Bridge of Sighs” on East Campus of Western State Normal School. A student walks down the right stair exist from the Administration Building and a car is parked under the Bridge. The “Bridge of Sighs” (later Training School Annex) was a connector between the Training School and Administration Buildings.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Administration Building portico from Davis Street nearly obscured by trees.
- Date Created:
- [1905 TO 1907]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- View of Davis Street neighborhood and Kalamazoo from the top of the Training School on Normal Hill (earlier Prospect Hill). View looking Northeast. Photograph appeared in the 1911 and 1920 Brown & Gold yearbooks.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Porticoes of the Administration Building and Gym addition (East Hall). View looking north. The Administration Building was completed in 1905. The Gymnasium addition was completed in 1908.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Front entrance of the Western Michigan University School of Business in North Hall. View focuses on building entrance portico with pediment supported by classical columns topped with corinthian capitals. Four male students are entering the building. Built in 1924, North Hall was altered several times, undergoing renovation in 1958. It was demolished in 2014, and only the front entrance remains on Prospect Hill.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Western Michigan University Archives Photograph Collection
