University of Nevada, Reno

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The campus of the University of Nevada, Reno, off of 9th Street. The buildings visible on the left are Stewart Hall, Hatch Hall, and Morrill Hall, the first building on campus. The walkway in the foreground covered the Orr Ditch which runs across campus.

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Source Caption: South campus is shown covered by snow. Hatch Station, Stewart Hall, and Morrill Hall are shown in this photograph taken from the Tram located at the south end of Manzanita Lake (photographic print, 3.35 x 5.5 inches). The Tram was built as a wooden walkway across the original Orr Ditch and eventually separated the lake from the grassy knoll known as Manzanita Bowl. It was converted to concrete in 1937. Stewart Hall, originally named the Dormitory Building, was the first female dormitory built on campus, completed in 1890. The top level of the building was torn down in the spring of 1959 due to damage from an earthquake, and in the fall of 1966 the name was changed to Stewart Administration until 1974 when it was completely demolished. It was located where the rose garden to the northwest of Morrill Hall is located today. Hatch Hall, originally named the State Mining Laboratory, was finished in 1891 and later changed to house the College of Agriculture in 1900 after a fire destroyed the Agricultural Experiment Station. Located to the west of Morrill Hall, the building was moved in 1926 to where the current day Church of Fine arts is located to make room for construction of the new Clark Library Building. Hatch Hall was torn down in 1959 for the construction of the new arts building. Morrill Hall, originally known as the Main Building, was the first building constructed at the university in 1885 and still stands today at the southern part of the Old Quad. This building housed classrooms, dorm rooms, and administrative offices for the university until expansion began. Named for Senator Justin S. Morrill of Vermont, who wrote the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 which led to the creation of universities across the United States, the building cost $13,000 to construct. In 1979 the building was renovated to how it is today.

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