List of Northwestern University buildings#Academic buildings
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The list of Northwestern University buildings encompasses the two main campuses of Northwestern University, located in Evanston, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois. The Evanston site contains approximately 150 buildings on its {{convert|240|acre|km2|adj=mid}} campus. The downtown Chicago campus, of approximately 25 acres (0.10 km2), is home to the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Northwestern University also has an 11-acre (0.04 km2) campus in Education City, a satellite campus complex in Doha, Qatar.
Evanston campus
Northwestern's original Evanston, Illinois campus, located just north of Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan, can be traced to 1851, one year after the institution's founding. The campus still hosts the majority of Northwestern's undergraduate programs, as well as several of its graduate and professional schools. Unlike many prestigious universities of the time, whose campuses were iteratively master-planned, buildings on the Evanston Campus range heavily in both architectural style and date, due in part to the university's historically fluctuating finances. The earliest buildings are of Victorian, Gothic-adjacent, Neoclassical, and Renaissance-Revival styles. Numerous buildings on the Evanston campus constructed from the early to mid-twentieth century, including lecture halls, student residences, and the university's flagship library, were commissioned in the Collegiate Gothic style by notable American campus architect James Gamble Rogers. In the postwar period, numerous brutalist projects were undertaken, including an expansion of the main library by Walter Netsch. Many of these buildings are located on the Northwestern University Lakefill, a 1964 landfill extension of Northwestern's campus into Lake Michigan. As the university's first and primary campus, Evanston has seen major development in the past decade, including the construction of major new projects for its Music, Business, and Athletic programs designed by leading architecture firms.
= Academic buildings and lecture halls =
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| {{anchor|University Hall}}University Hall
| File:University Hall and the Rock.jpg from The Rock]]File:University Hall Northwestern.jpg]] | 1869 | 1897 Sheridan Road | 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.{{cite web |title=Northwestern University University Hall, Evanston |url=http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Building/1403/Northwestern-University-University-Hall.php |access-date=March 22, 2017 |website=Chicago Architecture Info}} The interior was renovated in 1992 and it is now home to the American Studies and Science in Human Culture Programs (SHC). |
| {{va|Harris Hall}}
| File:Harris Hall at Northwestern.jpg | 1881 Sheridan Road | Designed by Charles Coolidge in the neoclassical style with a series of ionic columns flanking the entrance, and adorned with the names of various social science fields. Today Harris Hall houses the History Department's classrooms and administration. |
| {{va|Annie May Swift Hall}}
| File:Annie May Swift Hall.jpg | 1895 | 1920 Campus Drive | Designed by Evanston architect Charles R. Ayers in a mixture of Venetian Gothic Revival and Romanesque styles with an ornate use of nonstructural decorative masonry. It was named for Annie May Swift, a Northwestern student and the daughter of notable Chicago meatpacking mogul Gustavus F. Swift, who donated the building in her honor following her death of typhoid. The building originally housed the School of Oratory, now the School of Communication's departments of Performance Studies and Radio/Television/Film. |
| {{va|Fisk Hall}}
| File:Fisk Hall at Northwestern.jpg at Fisk Hall]] | 1899 | 1845 Sheridan Road | Designed by the firm of notable architect Daniel H. Burnham in the Romanesque Revival style. Contains the main classrooms for Medill School of Journalism and the Media Management Program for the Kellogg School of Management. |
| {{va|Lunt Hall}}
| File:Lunt Hall; Northwestern University.jpg | 1894 | 2033 Sheridan Road | Designed by William Augustus Otis in the Italian Renaissance style. Originally housing Northwestern's Main academic library before the opening of Deering, the building still contains a mathematics library. Lunt houses the Mathematical Experience for Northwestern Undergraduates Program (MENU), and the Department of Mathematics. |
| {{anchor|Technological Institute}}Technological Institute
| File: TechInstitute-PostLakefill.jpg of the Tech Institute, {{circa|1942}}-1950]] | 1942 | 2145 Sheridan Road | Home to the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and the science departments of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (Chemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Physics and Astronomy). The Holabird & Root designed building was one of the largest buildings in the United States upon its completion. Construction of the building became possible after [https://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/agents/people/2038 Walter Patton Murphy], a wealthy inventor of railroad equipment, donated $6.735 million in 1939. Murphy wanted the institute to offer a new kind of “cooperative education.” Various wings have been added to the Tech Institute since its inception, including the [https://trienens-institute.northwestern.edu/ccss/ Center for Catalysis and Surface Science]. |
| {{va|Kresge Hall}}
| File:Kresge Centennial Hall Northwestern.jpg | 1955 | 1880 Campus Drive | A multipurpose academic building housing various academic departments, including the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of Art History, Department of Classics, and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. Built in the 1950s with reserved gothic details, Kresge is the newest building in the oldest Evanston Campus quad surrounding The Rock. |
| {{va|Crowe Hall}}
| File:Crowe Hall at Northwestern.jpg | 2003 | 1860 Campus Drive | A later wing adjoining Kresge Hall, this building houses the African American Studies Department, Comparative Literary Studies Program, French and Italian Department, Latina and Latino Studies Program, Religious Studies Department, Spanish and Portuguese Department, and Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies. |
| {{va|Swift Hall}}
| File:Swift Hall at Northwestern.jpg | 1909 | 2029 Sheridan Road | Designed by George Maher in the early 20th-century, with various later art deco additions. Swift Hall is home to Northwestern's Program in Brain, Behavior, and Cognition (BBC), Cognitive Science Program, and the Department of Psychology. |
| Kellogg Global Hub
| File:Kellogg Global Hub.jpg Global Hub]] | 2017 | 2211 Campus Drive | A contemporary five-story, 415,000-square-foot facility with unobstructed views of Lake Michigan and a large curved glass facade. The flagship building of the Kellogg School of Management; designed by firm KPMB Architects with a layout "designed to encourage collaboration" among students of the prestigious graduate business program.{{Cite web |last=Koziarz |first=Jay |date=2017-04-04 |title=Northwestern opens new Kellogg Global Hub at its Evanston campus |url=https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/4/4/15180218/chicago-architecture-northwestern-university-kellogg-global-hub |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=Curbed Chicago |language=en}} |
| {{va|Donald P. Jacobs Center}}
| File:Jacobs Center Northwestern.jpg Donald P. Jacobs Center]] | 1973 | 2001 Sheridan Road | Housed the Kellogg School of Management until its administration moved to the new Kellogg Global Hub. Currently unused. The 1973-built Jacobs Center sat on the recently vacated site of Northwestern's first building, Old College (designed by John M. Van Osdel), which was heavily damaged by lighting before its demolition after standing for 118 years. As of 2024, the Jacobs Center is undergoing a renovation converting it for use by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, with the aim to create "a collaborative space to address pressing societal issues."{{cite web | url=https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/03/jacobs-center-renovation-will-create-collaborative-space-to-address-pressing-societal-issues/ | title=Jacobs Center renovation will create collaborative space to address pressing societal issues }} |
| {{va|Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center}}
| File:Ford Design Building Northwestern.jpg | 2005 | 2133 Sheridan Road | Designed by Davis Brody Bond, a 63,000-square-foot, facility with classrooms, shops, design studios, meeting areas, and team-centered work rooms. |
| {{va|Walter Annenberg Hall}}
| File:Annenberg Hall Northwestern.jpg main building]] | 1994 | 2120 Campus Drive | Designed by Booth Hansen Associates in a gothic-postmodern style. Annenberg Hall is home to the School of Education and Social Policy. |
| {{va|Frances Searle Building}}
| File:Frances Searle Building.jpg | 1972 | 2240 Campus Drive | Built on Northwestern's Lakefill, a brutalist building housing School of Communication classrooms. |
| {{va|McCormick Foundation Center}}
| File:McCormick Tribune Center at Northwestern.jpg | 2002 | 1870 Campus Drive | Contains the Medill School of Journalism's Integrated Marketing Communications Program (IMC). |
| {{va|Scott Hall}}
| | 1940 | 601 University Place | One of a series of collegiate gothic buildings by James Gamble Rogers{{cite web |title=Northwestern University Scott Hall, Evanston |url=http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Building/1404/Northwestern-University-Scott-Hall.php |access-date=March 22, 2017 |website=Chicago Architecture Info}} which houses event spaces and the offices of the Political Science Department. |
| {{va|Parkes Hall}}
| | 1962 | 1870 Sheridan Road | A two-story building adjacent to the Alice Millar Chapel housing various classrooms and the offices of the Religious Studies Department. |
| {{va|James L. Allen Center}}
| | 1972 | 2169 Campus Drive | Previously housed Kellogg School of Management lecture rooms, currently unused. |
| {{va|Locy Hall}}
| | 1928 | 1850 Campus Drive | Houses various academic classrooms. Prior to 2010, Locy Hall was home to the Department of Earth and Planetary Science (previously Geological Sciences). |
| {{va|Chambers Hall}}
| | 600 Foster Street | A facility that houses the Northwestern University Transportation Center. |
| {{va|Family Institute}}
| | [?] | 618 Library Place | A recent building housing the Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, as well as its namesake Family Institute, incorporated in 1969.{{Cite web |date=1965-01-01 |title=Celebrating 50 Years |url=https://www.family-institute.org/about-us/history |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=Family Institute |language=en}} |
=Libraries=
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| Charles Deering Library
| File: Northwestern Deering Library.jpg, corner spires]]File:Deering Library Northwestern.jpg, West facade]] | 1933 | 1937 Sheridan Road | Designed by James Gamble Rogers in the Collegiate Gothic style, at the top of Deering Meadow. The library's exterior is modeled after King's College Chapel at Cambridge University and features 68 unique stained glass windows by G. Owen Bonawit; many of which picture the shields of other universities or various academic disclipines. Houses the Northwestern University Archives, the Music Library, and the Art Collection and the Special Collections Department, with indoor connections to the larger University Library complex. The building's exterior underwent major renovation and restoration in 2013.{{cite journal|title=The New Deering Library |journal=Bulletin of the American Library Association |date=1933 |volume=27 |issue=2 |page=91 |jstor=25687851 }} As of 2024, the interior of Deering Library is closed for a refurbishment expected to conclude in September 2025.{{Cite web |title=Deering Library to be renovated beginning June 2024: Libraries - Northwestern University |url=https://www.library.northwestern.edu/about/news/library-news/2024/deering-library-to-be-renovated-beginning-june-2024.html |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=www.library.northwestern.edu |language=en}} |
| University Library
| File:Northwestern Library (6779784783).jpgFile:Northwestern University Library, Evanston, IL.JPG | 1970 | 1970 Campus Drive |Designed by brutalist architect Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it today houses the main academic library system of Northwestern University, built to address Deering's limited size as its collection expanded in a period of postwar growth. University Library is the 14th-largest university library in North America, and is architecturally similar to other Netsch university projects in the Chicago area (including the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago or UIC's University Hall). The complex consists of three structurally independent towers linked by multilevel elevated hallways. |
| Seeley G. Mudd Science and Engineering Library
| File:Mudd Library, Northwestern University.jpg | 1977 | 2233 Tech Drive | Northwestern's third and most contemporary library building, dedicated to science and engineering. A major renovation of the building was completed in 1999. The library was expanded again in 2017,{{Cite web |title=Mudd Hall Renovation and Expansion: Facilities - Northwestern University |url=https://www.northwestern.edu/fm/projects/our_projects/evanston/mudd-hall-renovation-and-expansion.html |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=www.northwestern.edu |language=en}} a project which included such amenities as "collaboration rooms" and showers in renovated study areas. |
=Performing arts=
=Science and research buildings=
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| Dearborn Observatory
| File:2007-04-06 3000x2000 evanston nu observatory.jpg | 1889 | 2131 Tech Drive | Designed by Cobb and Frost in the Richardsonian Romanesque style and home to the Dearborn 18 and 1/2 inch refractor, which was once the largest telescope in the United States. The building was moved in 1939 to make room for the Technological Institute, an effort which took 26 men three months.{{cite web|title=Building View, Northwestern Architecture, Northwestern University Library|url=http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/architecture/building.php?bid=5|website=digital.library.northwestern.edu|access-date=March 22, 2017}}{{Cite web |title=History: Department of Physics and Astronomy - Northwestern University |url=https://physics.northwestern.edu/about/dearborn-observatory/history.html |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=physics.northwestern.edu |language=en}} The observatory is still used by the Department of Physics and Astronomy. |
| Hogan Biological Sciences Building
| File:Hogan Hall Northwestern.jpg | 2205 Tech Drive | Midcentury brutalist building housing the offices and laboratories of the Program in Biological Sciences, Center for Reproductive Science, Institute for Neuroscience, Neurobiology and Physiology, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program (IBiS), Neurobiology and Physiology, Plant Biology and Conservation Program (PBC), Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering (NAISE), and Center for Water Research. |
| Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Hall
| File:Ryan Hall Northwestern.jpg | 2190 Campus Drive | Designed by architects Zimmer, Gunsul, and Frasca. An 84,000-square-foot building for the Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly. |
| Center for Catalysis and Surface Science
| | 1984 | 2137 Tech Drive | Houses the Center for Intelligent Processing of Composites (IPC) laboratories.{{cite web|title=CCSS - About Us {{!}} Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN)|url=http://isen.northwestern.edu/ccss-about-us|website=isen.northwestern.edu|access-date=March 22, 2017}} |
| Cook Hall
| | 1992 | 2220 Campus Drive | A facility named Cook Hall, in 2001, for William A. "Bill" Cook and his wife Gayle. Home to Molecular Biosciences, the Keck Biophysics Facility, and the departments of Materials Science and Engineering, and Neurobiology and Physiology. |
| The Garage
|File:The Garage at Northwestern University.jpg | 2015 | 2311 N Campus Drive | A cross-disciplinary site within a parking garage for students to develop start-up companies.{{cite web|title=Northwestern's New Garage Executive Director Aims To Create A Mini-Silicon Valley In Evanston|url=http://chicagoinno.streetwise.co/2015/09/06/northwesterns-startup-accelerator-the-garage-taps-melissa-crounse-as-director/|website=Chicago Inno|author=Karis Hustad|date=September 6, 2015|access-date=March 22, 2017}} |
| Pancoe-NSUHS Life Sciences Pavilion
| | 2003 | 2200 Campus Drive | A {{cvt|88,000|sqft}} research building that includes research laboratories, faculty offices, a vivarium, auditorium and cafe.{{cite web|title=News On Campus Summer 2000|url=http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/northwestern/summer2000/summer00newsoncampus.htm|website=www.northwestern.edu|access-date=March 22, 2017}} |
| Richard and Barbara Silverman Hall for Molecular Therapeutics and Diagnostics
|File:Northwestern University Campus (14131313615).jpg | 2170 Campus Drive | Modern facility housing the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Center for Molecular Innovation and Drug Discovery, and Physical Science-Oncology Center (PSOC). |
| CRESAP Laboratory
| | 1949 | 2021 Sheridan Road | A laboratory facility built originally to house the Department of Zoology as an adjacent wing of Swift Hall.{{cite web |date=May 14, 1949 |title=N.U. dedicates new CRESAP biological laboratory today |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1949/05/14/page/4/article/n-u-dedicates-new-cresap-biological-laboratory-today |access-date=March 22, 2017 |website=archives.chicagotribune.com |publisher=Chicago Tribune |page=4}} |
= Religious buildings =
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| Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary
|File:Garrett-Evangelical_Theological_Seminary.jpg |1924 |2121 Sheridan Road |Designed in the gothic revival style with a 6-story central tower; houses the offices and classrooms of Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, a private seminary and graduate school of theology on Northwestern's campus. |
| Alice Millar Chapel and Religious Center
| File:NU Alice Millar Chapel.JPG, University Hall and the Weber Arch]] | 1962 | 1870 Sheridan Road | The newest of the strictly gothic revival constructions on Northwestern's campus, home to a 100-rank Aeolian-Skinner organ, stained-glass windows, and a {{convert|151|ft|m|adj=on}} spire. The interior of Alice Millar Chapel is connected to the classrooms of Parkes Hall. |
| Levere Memorial Temple
| File:NU Levere Memorial Temple.JPG]] | 1856 Sheridan Road | Gothic revival temple featuring stained glass windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Built to act as a war memorial and serve as the headquarters and administrative facility of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternal organization. |
| Canterbury House
| |[?] | 2010 Orrington | A converted residential property containing the Episcopal Campus Ministry. |
| Fiedler Hillel Center
| | 629 Foster Street |A modernized version of an existing building, now housing Northwestern Hillel, a national campus Jewish student organization. The project was delayed until the end of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but has since been completed. |
| Lutheran Center
| |[?] | 2204 Orrington Ave |A converted residential property containing Northwestern's Lutheran Center. |
| Sheil Catholic Center
| |[?] | 2110 Sheridan Road |Contemporary building housing Northwestern's Catholic Center. |
| University Christian Ministry
| |[?] | 1834 Chicago Avenue |A converted residential property housing the administration of the campus University Chrisitan Ministry. |
=Athletic buildings=
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| Ryan Field
| File:Ryan Field.jpgFile:Dyche Stadium, North Western University, Evanston, Ill (83279) (cropped).jpg | 1501 Central Street | Home of Northwestern Football, formerly named Dyche Stadium. Originally designed by James Gamble Rogers in a signature collegiate gothic style. The original structure's demolition has begun as of January 2024. This will make way for an unprecedentedly modern college football stadium. The new stadium was opposed by many neighborhood residents for noise and traffic concerns but was approved by Evanston City Council in November 2023.{{Cite web |last=Stefanski • • |first=Matt |date=2023-11-21 |title=Evanston City Council reaches decision on future of Northwestern University's Ryan Field |url=https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/evanston-city-council-reaches-decision-on-future-of-northwestern-universitys-ryan-field/3283800/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=NBC Chicago |language=en-US}} The university is moving forward on completely redeveloping the original structure and surrounding athletics campus and states it aims to "address the deficiencies of the current stadium," aiming to improve efficiency while simultaneously reducing its overall capacity. | ||||
| Welsh-Ryan Arena
| File:2016 Illinois-Northwestern game IMG 0347.jpg | 2705 Ashland Avenue | Northwestern University's home for men's basketball, women's basketball, women's volleyball, and wrestling. The 7,039-seat multi-purpose arena arena underwent a 110-million dollar renovation in 2018, and is now "believed to be the most ADA accessible anywhere in college athletics."[https://nusports.com/facilities/welsh-ryan-arena/12] | ||||
| | Patten Gymnasium | File:Patten Gym - panoramio.jpgFile:Patten gymnasium.jpg | 1940 | 2407 Sheridan Road | Original fitness center, which once housed multipurpose courts and weight room but is now a state-of-the-art golf practice center. The collegiate gothic structure, a 1940 successor to the previous, architecturally-notable Prairie School Patten Gymnasium (which sat on land now occupied by the Technological Institute), maintains the original statues placed at its entrance: sculptures titled "Physical Development" and "Intellectual Development" (nicknamed "Pat and Jim") by artist Hermon Atkins MacNeil.{{cite web|title=Northwestern University Recreation|url=http://nurecreation.com/facilities/?id=6|website=nurecreation.com|access-date=March 20, 2017|language=en}} |
| Walter Athletics Center
| |2018 |2255 Campus Drive |A massive, 420,000-square-foot indoor, cantilevered football practice field designed by Perkins&Will.{{Cite web |last=Wakefield |first=Megan |title=Northwestern University Ryan Fieldhouse and Walter Athletics Center – Perkins&Will |url=https://perkinswill.com/project/northwestern-university-ryan-fieldhouse-walter-athletics-center/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=perkinswill.com |language=en-US}} Includes floor to ceiling glass walls overlooking Lake Michigan. The $270 million facility also includes a strength and conditioning center, with meeting rooms and a technologically assisted sport performance center. | ||||
| Henry Crown Sports Pavilion and Norris Aquatic Center
| 1987 | 2311 Campus Drive | "SPAC," the largest fitness and recreation center open to non-athlete Northwestern students. Contains courts for basketball, volleyball, and racquet sports, and a sizable swimming and diving pool. Also includes the adjacent indoor Combe Tennis Center, physical therapy, and other treatment facilities. | ||||
| Blomquist Recreation Center
| | 1963 | 617 Foster Street | Smaller facility with exercise equipment and multipurpose courts for use by undergraduate students at the South of Northwestern's campus. | ||||
| Trienens Hall
| | 1996 | 2707 Ashland Avenue | A fieldhouse with three practice courts, adjacent to Welsh-Ryan Arena. A renovation was completed in 2018 to modernize the facility, which included a name change to "Trienens Performance Center."{{cite web|title=A big gift to Northwestern|url=http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/kapos-obama-jumps-back-into-the-water/|website=Chicago Sun-Times|access-date=March 20, 2017|date=February 7, 2017|language=en}} | ||||
| Anderson Hall
| | 2005 | 2701 Ashland Avenue | Modern building in the vicinity of Ryan Field, designed by architects Nagle, Hartray, Danker, McKay, and Penney. Houses athletic offices and academic advising for student athletes.{{cite web|title=New Facility Brings Athletics Under One Roof: Northwestern University News|url=http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2006/02/anderson.html|website=www.northwestern.edu|access-date=March 20, 2017|language=en}} | ||||
| Lanny and Sharon Martin Stadium
| | 2016 | 2235 Campus Drive | Lakefront stadium home to Northwestern's lacrosse and soccer teams.{{cite web|title=Northwestern to Hold Groundbreaking for Lakefront Athletics and Recreation Complex Ceremony Set for Nov. 13; New Leadership Gift Received for Athletics and Recreation|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-433894344.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323143314/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-433894344.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 March 2017|publisher=States News Service|access-date=March 20, 2017|date=6 November 2015}} | ||||
| Byron S. Coon Sports Center
| | 2707 Ashland Avenue |A modest football practice facility, adjacent to Ryan Field. | ||||
| Sailing Center
| | 2014 | 1823 Campus Drive | A {{cvt|5000|sqft}} sailing facility overlooking Lake Michigan, open from early May to late October at Northwestern's South Beach.{{cite web|title=Northwestern University Recreation|url=http://nurecreation.com/index.aspx?path=sailing|website=nurecreation.com|access-date=March 20, 2017|language=en}} |
=Administrative and other student buildings=
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| Norris University Center
|File:Student Union & University Library, Northwestern.JPG |1972 |1999 Campus Drive |Northwestern's student union building named for named for Lester J. Norris, an alumnus of Northwestern University who died in 1967. Norris University Center is a hub for many student-run activities and amenities and also houses various dining options. Designed in the brutalist style by Edward D. Dart as one of the earliest buildings to be constructed on the university's Lakefill Campus. |
| Segal Visitors Center
| |1841 Sheridan Road |A contemporary, state-of-the-art, glass and stone visitors center. The structure, which overlooks Lake Michigan from the southernmost point of Northwestern University's lakefront property, was designed by architecture firm Perkins&Will. Segal is named for alumni Gordon and Carole Segal, and features a large parking ramp on its upper levels with space for over 400 cars.{{Cite web |title=Segal Visitors Center : Northwestern University |url=https://www.northwestern.edu/campus-experience/visiting-campus/segal-visitors.html |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=www.northwestern.edu |language=en}} |
| Rebecca Crown Center
|File:Rebecca Crown Center.jpg |1968 |633 Clark Street |Houses various administrative offices as well as the main offices of The Graduate School. The structure comprises a raised courtyard, clocktower, and various office wings with a unique facade clad in protruding rectangular panels. Designed by Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.{{cite web |title=Northwestern University Rebecca Crown Center, Evanston |url=http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Building/1396/Northwestern-University-Rebecca-Crown-Center.php |access-date=March 22, 2017 |website=Chicago Architecture Info}} |
| Central Utility Plant
| |1964 | 2026 Campus Drive |The main utility plant of the Evanston campus, where water is cooled and heated until it becomes high-pressured steam that can be piped throughout campus for heating its buildings. In 2009 the Central Utility Plant's chilled water facility was expanded approximately 100 feet to the south to accommodate two new 5000 ton chillers.{{Cite web |last1=Popely |first1=Joe |last2=Brown |first2=Scott |date=2017-07-18 |title=Full Steam Ahead for Energy Efficiency at Northwestern – PUPN |url=https://pupnmag.com/article/full-steam-ahead-for-energy-efficiency-at-northwestern/ |access-date=2024-02-19 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Central Utility Plant - Chilled Water Expansion: Facilities - Northwestern University |url=https://www.northwestern.edu/fm/projects/our_projects/evanston/central-utility.html |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=www.northwestern.edu |language=en}} |
| John Evans Alumni Center
| | 1880 | 1800 Sheridan Road |Originally a High Victorian Gothic manor designed by L.D. Norton on the university's original property administered Dr. John Evans, one of the nine founders of Northwestern (a bust of Evans is currently displayed in the center's living room). In the early-1900s, the house was purchased by Rufus Dawes and remodeled into the Tudor style, with the turret shape being reconfigured and entrance moved from Sheridan Road to Clark Street. The property, fronting Evanston's [https://www.cityofevanston.org/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/187/37 Centennial Park], was acquired by Northwestern University in 1943 and now houses its main alumni relations center.{{Cite web |title=The John Evans Center |url=https://www.alumni.northwestern.edu/s/1479/02-naa/16/interior.aspx?pgid=683&gid=2 |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=www.alumni.northwestern.edu |language=en}} |
| Old Roycemore School Building
|File:Roycemore School (8105942574).jpg from Orrington Avenue and Colfax Street]] |1915 |640 Lincoln Street |Originally constructed for the Roycemore School, an Evanston-based K-12 preparatory school, before its relocation to a larger facility in 2012. The series of adjoined buildings were designed by architect Lawrence Buck and the firm of Talmadge & Watson in the Arts and Crafts style with Prairie School influence. They were purchased by Northwestern and are zoned for the university's intended use of the buildings as dormitories or expanded classroom space, however plans to utilize the property were heavily opposed by nearby residents, citing noise complaints. The now vacant structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. |
| The Black House
|File:Northwestern Black House.jpg]] |[?] |1913 Sheridan Road |Houses the Black House, the Black Student Union (BLU) of Northwestern University, an organization originally created in the fall of 1968 as part of the institution's agreement with students to end the Bursar's Office takeover in April of that year. The house is one of multiple formerly private residences along Sheridan Road purchased by the university during its expansion. It designed in the Queen Anne style, includes programming rooms, a prayer space, and computer lab available to students, and was renovated to be fully ADA-compliant.{{Cite web |title=Locations: Multicultural Student Affairs - Northwestern University |url=http://www.northwestern.edu/msa/about/msa-locations/ |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=www.northwestern.edu |language=en}} |
| Multicultural Center
| |[?] |1936 Sheridan Road |Houses Northwestern's Multicultural Center, established in 1999 as the result of advocacy from an increasingly diverse student body. One of multiple formerly private residences along Sheridan Road purchased by the university during its expansion. The house itself is designed in a rare symmetrical Victorian style, and contains various murals and student artworks, private social and study rooms, a prayer space, and a computer lab available to students. |
| Women's Center
| |[?] |2000 Sheridan Road |The Women's Center is a social justice, feminist, and educational outreach organization created in 1986 to promote gender equity and inclusion at Northwestern to serve the needs of women and LGBT+ people on the Evanston campus. One of multiple formerly private residences along Sheridan Road purchased by the university during its expansion. The two-story house is designed in the Tudor Revival style and houses the center's offices as well as areas for education and social events in its casual environment. |
| Searle Hall Student Health Services Center
| |1962 |633 Emerson Street |A modernist building originally constructed as the Student Health Facility and Infirmary, currently houses Student Health Services (NUHS) as well as portions of the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and sexual health resources available to Northwestern students. Renovated in 2010 with additional procedure rooms and a modified layout.{{Cite web |title=Searle Student Health: Facilities - Northwestern University |url=https://www.northwestern.edu/fm/projects/our_projects/evanston/searle.html |access-date=2024-02-19 |website=www.northwestern.edu |language=en}} |
=Residences=
{{main|List of Northwestern University residences}}
=Other buildings=
Listed alphabetically by address
- 1808 Chicago Avenue
- 1810-12 Chicago Avenue, department of anthropology, department of sociology
- 1815 Chicago Avenue
- 405 Church Street, College Preparation Program
- 515 Clark Street
- 555 Clark Street, Cook Family Writing Program, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences Program, Center for the Writing Arts, various student financial offices
- 619 Clark Street, various financial offices
- 625 Colfax Street
- 629 Colfax Street, Office of Global Safety and Security
- 617 Dartmouth Place, Center for Talent Development
- 627 Dartmouth Place, Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching
- 630 Dartmouth Place, International Office
- 1201 Davis Street, various alumni and development offices, University Police
- 619 Emerson Street, Holocaust Educational Foundation, Office of Undergraduate Studies and Advising
- 633 Emerson Street, Student Health Services
- 618 Garrett Place, Master of Science in Education (MSEd)
- 625 Haven Street
- 617 Haven Street, Naval ROTC
- 600 Haven Street, New Student and Family Programs (NSFP)
- 1801 Hinman Avenue, Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid, Veterans Office
- 1810 Hinman Avenue, Department of Anthropology
- 1812 Hinman Avenue
- 1813 Hinman Avenue, Center for Civic Engagement, Center for Leadership, Chicago Field Studies Program (CFS)
- 1819 Hinman Avenue, Program of Asian American Studies
- 1835 Hinman Avenue, Dining hall
- 617 Library Place, Writing Place
- 618 Library Place, Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, The Family Institute
- 620 Library Place, Program of African Studies, Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
- 626 Library Place
- 620 Lincoln Street, Legal Studies Program{{cite web|last1=Snow|first1=Erica|title=Legal studies major added for 2016-17 school year|url=https://dailynorthwestern.com/2016/02/28/campus/legal-studies-major-added-for-2016-17-school-year/|website=The Daily Northwestern|date=29 February 2016 |access-date=March 22, 2017}}
- 630 Lincoln Street, Northwestern Career Advancement and SafeRide
- 640 Lincoln Street, Art Theory and Practice Department
- 1801 Maple Avenue, Media Management Center (MMC), NU in Qatar Support Office, Traffic Safety School
- 616 Noyes Street, Integrated Science Program (ISP)
- 617 Noyes Street, National High School Institute
- 625 Noyes Street
- 629 Noyes Street, Northwestern University Press
- 1840 Oak Ave, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
- 1603 Orrington Ave, Office of Compliance, Audit and Advisory Service
- 2020 Ridge Avenue, various administrative offices
- 1902 Sheridan Road, Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS), Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Center for International and Comparative Studies, Center for Technology Innovation Management
- 1908 Sheridan Road, Office of Undergraduate Studies and Advising
- 1914 Sheridan Road, African American Student Affairs
- 1918 Sheridan Road, Dean's Office for the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- 1922 Sheridan Road, Office of Undergraduate Studies and Advising
- 1936 Sheridan Road, Multicultural Center, Multicultural Student Affairs, University Academic Advisory Center, Asian/Asian American Student Affairs
- 1940 Sheridan Road, Office of Fellowships & the University Academic Advising Center (UAAC)
- 2000 Sheridan Road
- 2006 Sheridan Road, Statistics Department
- 2010 Sheridan Road, Programs for Asian Studies, International Studies, International and Area Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Harvey Kapnick Center for Business Institutions
- 2016 Sheridan Road, Department of Linguistics
- 2040 Sheridan Road, Institute for Policy Research
- 2046 Sheridan Road
- 2122 Sheridan Road, various residential services
- 1800 Sherman Avenue, Innovation and New Ventures Office (INVO), Art History Department, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of German, Global Health Studies Program, Middle East and North African Studies (MENA), Slavic Languages and Literatures (purchased by Northwestern in 2004{{cite web |title=1800 Sherman Avenue, Evanston |url=http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Building/1364/1800-Sherman-Avenue.php |access-date=March 22, 2017 |website=Chicago Architecture Info}})
- 720 University Place, Human Resources Department, Payroll
Chicago campus
Northwestern's Downtown Chicago campus of approximately {{convert|25|acre|m2}} dates to 1921 where the university purchased 9 original acres for its medical, dental, law, and business schools.{{Cite web |title=Chicago Campus: Government Relations - Northwestern University |url=https://www.northwestern.edu/govrelations/chicago/northwestern-in-chicago/ |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=www.northwestern.edu |language=en}} The Chicago Campus, with a small assortment of gothic revival buildings, is notable for containing the first instances of academic skyscrapers in the world. Located on land in the Streeterville neighborhood on the city's Near North Side, the secondary campus is home to the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern University School of Law (as well as parts of the Kellogg School of Management and School of Continuing Studies).
= Pritzker School of Law =
{{main| Northwestern University School of Law}}
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| Abbott Hall
| File:Abbot Hall, Northwestern University, Chicago (71963).jpg | 1940 | 710 N. Lake Shore Drive | Houses various administrative services for the School of Law. Abbott Hall served as a Naval Reserve Midshipman's School during the World War II era and operated as a student dormitory in a period following 1945.{{cite book|title=Abbott Hall U.S.N.R.: The record of the United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School, Abbott Hall, Northwestern University, September 1940 – August 1945|url=https://archive.org/details/abbotthallusnrre00unit|date=1945|publisher=Abbott Hall Publications Committee|location=Chicago}} When built at a cost of $1.75 million to house more than 800 residents, the 20-story building was then believed to be the tallest structure in the world used exclusively as a college dormitory. |
| Levy Mayer Hall
| 1927 | 357 E. Chicago Avenue | The smallest of three original James Gamble Rogers buildings constructed for the Northwestern's new Chicago campus in the Collegiate Gothic style. The structure consists of a series of collegiate gothic classrooms surrounding an internal courtyard landscaped with grass, trees, shrubbery and ivy.{{Cite web |title=Northwestern University Campus District Historic Designation Report {{!}} City of Chicago |url=https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/zlup/Historic_Preservation/Publications/Northwestern_U_Chicago_Campus_Dist_REV.pdf}} Houses the Bluhm Legal Clinic, Master of Science in Law Program (MSL), Pritzker Legal Research Center, Registrar. |
| Robert McCormick Hall
| File:Northwestern Law School McCormick Hall.jpg | 350 E. Superior Street | A three-story, L-shaped gothic building named for Colonel McCormick, a member of Northwestern's Class of 1907 and the famed editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune. Along with law classrooms, houses the Office of Student Services for the Chicago campus. |
| Arthur Rubloff Building
| File:Northwestern Law Rubloff Building.jpg | 375 E. Chicago Avenue | Houses the Bluhm Legal Clinic, Office of Admissions, Pritzker Legal Research Center, and Thorne Auditorium. The modernist lakefront tower adjoins James Gamble Rogers's Levy Mayer Hall and sits immediately west of Lake Shore Drive. |
=Kellogg School of Management=
{{main| Kellogg School of Management}}
= Feinberg School of Medicine =
== Patient care and research ==
{{main| Feinberg School of Medicine}}
== Buildings of the associated Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC)* ==
{{main|Northwestern Memorial Hospital|Lurie Children's Hospital|Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago}}
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- 225 E. Chicago Avenue, (Ann & Robert H.) Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
- 250 E. Erie Street, Adult Emergency Department
- 251 E. Erie Street, Feinberg Pavilion
- 441 E. Erie Street, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Onterie Center Offices
- 710 N. Fairbanks Court, Walter E. Olson Pavilion
- 211 E. Grand Avenue, Ronald McDonald House
- 201 E. Huron Street, Galter Pavilion
- 345 E. Huron Street, Stone Institute Inpatient Psychiatry Center
- 446 E. Ontario Street, Stone Institute
- 244 E. Pearson Street, Worcester House
- 676 N. St. Clair Street, Arkes Pavilion
- 250 E. Superior Street, Prentice Women's Hospital
- 345 E. Superior Street, Flagship Main Entrance
See also
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