Constructed as a classroom, office, and library building for the Iowa State Normal School, this building opened to students in 1896. The building was located north of Seerley Hall, in front of Maucker Union, and south of Lang Hall. The building was of mixed architectural styles including Greek, Roman, Renaissance, and Victorian. The building was originally called Central Hall until additions to the campus made the name geographically inaccurate, and by 1911, it housed administrative offices. It was renamed the Administration Building. With the completion of a new administration building, Gilchrist Hall, the Old Administration Building housed classrooms and faculty offices during the 1970s and 1980s until it was demolished in 1984.[6]

6. Lang Hall (1900), Wisconsin St.

7. Alumni House (1906), 1012 W 23rd St.

8. Begeman Hall (1903), Northwest of Lang Hall

Originally constructed as a laboratory and science building, it opened to students in 1907. The building housed classrooms and laboratories for Biology, Geography, Physics, and Chemistry Departments. By 1975, the building was simply known as the Physics Building. In 2004, it underwent a $3.9 million dollar renovation which included a new elevator, a loading dock, updated classrooms, and labs. In 2007, the building was renamed Begeman Hall in honor of Professor Louis Begeman, who headed the Physics Department from 1908 to 1935. Begeman Hall continues to house the Physics Department and Science Education faculty offices.[9]

9. Central Hall (1869), Wisconsin St.

The original building, Central Hall, was located roughly where Maucker Union and the Center for Multicultural Education are now. Housing orphans until 1876, Central Hall became both a boarding hall and a classroom building for the Normal School. Students’ room and board was originally $2.65 dollars per week.  The building had running water and heat provided by a steam plant. In 1932, it became the home of the Music Department. A fire, caused by faulty wiring, burned Central Hall down in 1965. The original bell from Central Hall is now on display in the Maucker Union expansion.[10]

11. Sabin Hall (1912), South of Maucker Union

Originally designed to house a laboratory school for teacher education, the building opened to students in 1914. The school housed multiple experiential classrooms, spaces for manual training, domestic science, physical training, and student teacher demonstration and observation. The school housed Kindergarten through high school classes with over three-hundred pupils in attendance. In 1957, the building was renamed Sabin Hall after Henry Sabin, who had served as State Superintendent of Schools from 1888 to 1898. The Social Sciences Department moved into the building after the Lab School moved out. In 2008, the building underwent renovations and now houses the Geography and Political Science Departments as well as the Center for Social and Behavioral Research.[12]

12. Wright Hall (1915), Campus St.

Originally, known as the Vocational Building, it housed agriculture, manual training, domestic science, and art programs.  By 1951, it housed part of the Science Department as well as Home Economics. In 1957, it was named after David Sands Wright, a member of the original faculty from 1876 to 1926. After undergoing a $2.7 million dollar renovation in 1990, it is now home to the Mathematics and Computer Science Departments.[13]

13. Rod Library (1963), West of Maucker Union

In 1961, the General Assembly approved a three-phased construction of a new modular library building. In 1965, the bottom and main levels were opened to students, and included a browsing room, study rooms, offices, Periodical and Reference Collections. The third level was completed in 1975, and included expanded book stacks, study spaces, Special Collections and University Archives, and the Youth Collection. In 1986, the library was renamed Rod Library in honor of Donald Olaf Rod, who had served as director of the UNI Library from 1953 to 1986. The fourth level was completed in 1995, and included more book stacks, study spaces, and the Art and Music Collection. Rod Library continues to update and expand services to students; it recently remodeled the Youth Collection and has proposed a new Learning Commons on the main level.[14]

14. Innovative Teaching and Technology Center [ITTC] (1903),

North of Rod Library

Originally known as the Gymnasium and designated to house physical education faculty and classes, the gym opened to students in 1905. The building had separate women’s and men’s facilities, an open gym, a swimming pool, showers, offices, exercise rooms, and a running track. During World War I, the gym housed military training barracks. By 1935, a second gym was built on campus and the old gym, known as East Gymnasium, was designated for women’s physical education. The building underwent major remodeling from 2004 to 2006; it was renamed the Innovative Teaching and Technology Center. The newly renovated building now houses the Academic Learning Center, the Computing Consulting Center, the Geography and Computer Science Departments, as well as Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology labs, classrooms and offices.[15]

15. Bartlett Hall (1914), W 23rd St.

Originally a dormitory for women, Bartlett Hall opened on September 13, 1915. In the early years, most students found housing in the College Hill neighborhood, but President Seerley and the Regents hoped to provide safer accommodations, especially for women students. Besides small bedrooms, parlors offered comfortable seating, writing desks, pianos, and radios. Two more additions were completed by 1924, providing board for 510 women. From 1942 to 1945, during World War II, Bartlett housed a thousand WAVES. Bartlett remained a residential hall until May 2012, when renovations began for offices to house The Language, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology Departments.[16]

16. The Commons (1932), W 23rd Street.

Originally constructed as a student recreation center and dining center for female students in Bartlett, the Commons opened in September 1933. The building included a soda fountain, offices, a post office, telephone switchboard, a ballroom, and lounges. In 1960, the Commons began to offer live entertainment; among those who performed here was Bob Newhart. In 1965 and 1978, the building underwent renovations, so that it now houses the offices of the UNI Foundation and University Development. It also contains 23rd Street Market convenience store, a dining center, ballroom, and a lounge.[17]

In 1914, the Alumni Association proposed a memorial for faculty, graduates, students, and friends of the institution. Charles Fasoldt donated a clock to help complete the Campanile. In 1927, the structure was dedicated in memory of the founders and builders of the Iowa State Teachers College. Shortly after its construction, “Campaniling” started.  According to this, a woman would become a full-fledged co-ed only after being kissed at midnight under the Campanile during Homecoming. The tradition was brought back in 1979 by the Alumni Association and remains strong today.[18]

18. Baker Hall (1935), Campus St.

This art-deco styled men’s dormitory opened in 1936, housing seventy-six men, and by 1937, a second dormitory, Seerley Hall for Men, was built adjacent to it. From 1942 to 1945, it housed women, including WAVES. In 1953, it became the first dormitory on campus to have a television. A central addition, connecting Baker with Seerley Hall, opened in 1955, but by 1971, it only housed offices and classrooms. In 2012, all remaining offices were moved due to deteriorating conditions and the building’s demolition was planned.[19]

19. Prexy's Pond (1935), Minnesota St.

Originally built in 1935 for seasonal recreation and physical education classes, the pond was located where Curris Business Building now stands. It would have extended north on the adjacent lawn as well. Activities ranged from canoeing to ice skating as well as some controversial freshmen hazing incidents. The pond proved difficult to maintain, and so, in 1986, it was officially closed and its site prepared for the Curris Business Building, which opened two years later.[20]

The monument serves as a memorial to Lieutenant Robert J. Hibbs, Class of 1964, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions in Vietnam. In 1966, while leading an ambush, he created a diversion to retrieve an injured soldier and was killed during the attack. The memorial was dedicated on September 19, 2000, by Governor Vilsack and UNI President Robert Koob.[21]