Kent State University Buildings, Photographs, 1913-[ongoing]

Inventory
Prepared by Barbara Bass, April 21, 2002
2 record storage boxes, 2 cubic feet, 11th floor

Scope and Content

This is a collection photographs of Kent State University buildings, arranged alphabetically by building name. Dates were not available for all photos. Some folders contain a number of photographs with different views of a building. Click on underlined names to see scanned photographs of selected buildings. Additional building photographs are housed in the University Photograph collection. Please ask Special Collections and Archives staff for assistance in locating these. (There may some buildings for which photographs are not available.)

Box 1

Folder -- Contents

  1. Administration Building [color]
  2. Administration Building [2 views]
  3. Administration Building [2 views]
  4. Administration Building [no negative]
  5. Administration Building [winter]
  6. Administration Building [3 views]
  7. Administration Building, Kent Hall [1960's]
  8. Administration Building, Merrill Hall
  9. Administration Building negative
  10. Aerial of campus [post 1951, pre 1956; 2 views]
  11. Aerial of front campus [1960's]
  12. Aerial of campus [post 1980]
  13. Agassiz House [2 views]
  14. Airport [2 views]
  15. Allyn Hall
  16. Allerton [Married Student] Apartments [5 exterior views, 1 interior view]
  17. Allerton [Married Student] Apartments; Newman Center [3/12/66] [contact sheet]
  18. Art Building [4 views]
  19. Art Building at night
  20. Art Building [2 interior rooms]
  21. Barracks [aerial view]
  22. Barracks in relation to campus [aerial view]
  23. Beall-McDowell: under construction: Eastway-Twin Towers
  24. Beall-McDowell [Twin Towers] [4 views, 2 are ariel]
  25. Beall-McDowell, Dunbar Hall, Johnson Stopher Hall, Korb Hall [12/66/4] [contact sheet]
  26. Blossom-Porthouse Theater Construction
  27. Bookstore [mostly interior views] [before 1998]
  28. Bowman Hall
  29. Buildings [miscellaneous], [1960's?]
  30. Buildings [miscellaneous], [late 1960's?]
  31. Buildings [miscellaneous], Students in dorms, cafeterias, etc., [1970's?]
  32. Business Administration Building 1 view; 1 architect's drawing
  33. Business Administration [2 aerial views, 1 interior view, 1 exterior view of door]
  34. Conference Room in library [Administration Building or Rockwell]
  35. Construction site of [unidentified building]; Bowman Hall; Music & Speech; Ashtabula Center [contact sheet]
  36. Cunningham Hall [3 views]
  37. Cunningham Hall [construction]
  38. Dale Terrace Apartments [1 aerial view]
  39. DeWeese Health Center [2 views]
  40. DeWeese Health Center [construction]
  41. Dunbar Hall [1950's] [2 views]
  42. Dunbar Hall
  43. Eastway Center [2 views, 1 architect's drawing]
  44. Eastway Center [dining area]
  45. Eastway Center [dorm room]
  46. Eastway Center and Twin Towers
  47. Engleman Hall [Winter, Feb. 1955]
  48. Engleman Hall [no negative]
  49. Engleman Hall [5 views]
  50. Field House [interior]
  51. Field House [interior] [Book of Memories, p. 291
  52. Franklin Hall 2 views; 1 from Summit St. remodelled + 2 designs on the wall; 1 from Hilltop Dr.]
  53. Franklin Hall, McGilvrey Hall [2 views][
  54. GlenMorris Student Apartments [2 views]
  55. Gym Annex[2 side views]
  56. Gym Annex, [Book of Memories, p. 229] [aerial view]
  57. Gym Annex models [4 views], architect's drawings [2 views]; 1 misc. drawing
  58. Gym Annex construction [1 view], models [1 view], site [1 view]
  59. Heating Plant [construction] [1939]
  60. Heating Plant [4 views]
  61. Heating Plant: back of building [1940's]
  62. Heating Plant [1960's]
  63. Henderson, Nursing Building [2 views, 1 architect's drawing]
  64. Ice Arena [construction] [1969]
  65. Johnson Hall [construction]
  66. Johnson Hall [3 views]
  67. Kent Hall [2 views; 1 front, 1 end]
  68. Kent Hall with ivy [2 views]
  69. Koonce Hall [part of Tri-Towers] [2 views; 1 with Mr. & Mrs. Koonce]
  70. Korb Hall [2 exterior views, 1 architect's drawing, 4 interior views]
  71. Lake Hall
  72. Lake-Olson Halls [1 exterior view; 2 interior views]
  73. Lake-Olson Halls: architect's drawings
  74. Lake-Olson Halls: architect's drawings [March, 1960]
  75. Leebrick Hall [part of Tri-Towers]
  76. Library [2 views from plaza]
  77. Library: [1980's] [view from between Library and Student Center
  78. Library [construction] [1970-71]
  79. Library: study area [1970's]
  80. Library [Old] Interior, Administration Building, Prentice Hall, Franklin Hall [contact sheet]
  81. Library [Old] Interior and Exterior [contact sheet]
  82. Lowry Hall, Construction of, [1913] [Book of Memories, p. 26]
  83. Lowry Hall, construction of, [1913] [2 views]
  84. Lowry Hall [4 views]
  85. Lowry Hall, dining room [1920's?]
  86. Lowry and Merrill Halls [1913] [2 views]
  87. Lowry, Merrill, Administration Building, Kent Hall [Book of Memories, p. 34]
  88. MACC [Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center]
  89. McDowell Hall
  90. McGilvrey Hall, Construction [first shovel of dirt], [1938]
  91. McGilvrey Hall, Construction [Dec. 11, 1939]
  92. McGilvrey Hall [2 views]
  93. McGilvrey Hall [no negative]
  94. McGilvrey Hall [2 views; 1 from Hilltop Dr., 1 of shrubbery in front, [1940]]
  95. McSweeney Hall
  96. Math and Computer Science Building Construction
  97. Memorial Gym [1950]
  98. Memorial Gym [1 aerial, 2 views, floor plans]
  99. Memorial Gym: path behind student center [late 1970's]
  100. Memorial Gym [2 views]
  101. Memorial Stadium
  102. Merrill Hall [5 views]
  103. Merrill Hall Construction [1913]
  104. Merrill Hall [6 views]
  105. Merrill and Lowry Halls [Aug. 21, 1938] [back of buildings]
  106. Merrill Hall, Stark Branch [aerial view], Stark Branch, Student Union [10/12/66] [contact sheet]
  107. Moulton Hall [3 views]
  108. Moulton, Lowry, Merrill Halls
  109. Moulton, Lowry, Merrill, Administration Building
  110. Moulton, Lowry, Merrill, Administration Building, McGilvrey scrapbook, p. 31 [pre 1930]
  111. Moulton Hall, Verder Hall, Van Deusen Hall, Front Campus [8/12/66] [contact sheet]
  112. Music and Speech Building [color]
  113. Music and Speech Building [1987]
  114. Music and Speech Building [1 aerial view, 6 exterior views, 1 interior view]
  115. Music and Speech Building [Book of Memories, p. 129]
  116. Musselman Hall
  117. Nixson Hall
  118. Nixson Hall [architect's drawings]
  119. Nixson Hall [aerial view]
  120. Nixson Hall Classroom
  121. Olson Hall

Box 2

Folder -- Contents

  1. Prentice, Dunbar, and Verder Halls [5 views, 4 are aerial]
  2. Prentice Gate [late 1940's] [2 views]
  3. Prentice Gate [1960's] [4 views]
  4. Prentice Hall
  5. Quad Area
  6. Ritchie Hall
  7. Rockwell Hall [pre 1955] [4 views]
  8. Rockwell Hall [post 1958] [3 aeriel, 7 ground, 1 interior addition construction views
  9. Rockwell Hall Addition [1957-1958] [6 views]
  10. Rockwell Hall Study Area
  11. Rockwell Atrium
  12. Saaterfield Hall [6 views--2 exterior, 1 architect's drawing, 1 construction, 2 interior]
  13. Site for Nixson and Verder Halls: old Curtiss property
  14. Small Group Housing [10 views--9 exterior, 1 architect's drawing]
  15. Smith Hall [5 views; 3 exterior, 2 architect's drawings]
  16. Stadium [4 negatives, 7 views includes 1 architect's drawing]
  17. Stockdale [first Health Center called Pill Hill became Police Dept., Health and Safety Building] [5 exterior views, 1 interior view]
  18. Stopher Hall [9 views--8 exterior, 1 interior]
  19. Student Center [2 views]
  20. Student Center and Fountain [1990's]
  21. Student Center Plaza Fountain [Book of Memories, p. 287]
  22. Student Union [old]: [12 views, 1 interior]
  23. Summit St. and Hilltop Dr. [1920's]
  24. Taylor Hall [5 views + 1 architect's drawing]
  25. Taylor Hall Construction
  26. Taylor Hall, Eastway Center Newman Center [contact sheet]
  27. Tennis Courts [Sept.-Oct., 1941] [3 views]
  28. Terrace Archway [Book of Memories, p. 114]
  29. Terrace Hall [7 exterior views, 10 construction views]
  30. Terrace Hall, Stopher Hall, Nixson Hall [contact sheet]
  31. Terrace Hall, White Hall
  32. Tri-Towers [Koonce, Leebrick and Wright Halls] [4 views + 1 architect's drawing]
  33. University School [4 views--3 exterior, 1 interior]
  34. University Supply Center [5 views--4 exterior, 1 interior]
  35. Van Campen Hall [2 views]
  36. Van Deusen Hall [10 views, 1 in color]
  37. Verder Hall [3 views]
  38. White Hall [Education Building] [2 color transparencies, 4 views + 1 architect's drawing]
  39. William A Cluff Teacher Training School: later called Franklin Hall [2 views]
  40. Williams Hall [9 views + 1 architect's drawing]

    Regional Campuses

  41. Ashtabula Center [12/13/66] [1 contact sheet, 1 aerial view]
  42. Salem Campus: unidentified building
  43. Stark County Regional Campus [ca. 1970's] [2 views]
  44. Trumbull Regional Campus
  45. Tuscarawas Regional Campus [ca. 1970's] [color]

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