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This photo gallery contains images of the various buildings |
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This photo gallery contains images of the various buildings |
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The current chemistry building comprises several sections. The Irving Shain Research Tower is newest (completed 2000) and at the left (west). In the center is the oldest section, the Mathews building (completed 1962). At the right is the Daniels building (completed 1968). At the bottom just right of center is the new seminar hall (2000). At the upper right in the photo, across University Avenue, is the former chemistry building, Chamberlin Hall, which is now home to the physics department.
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This photograph, taken in 1978, shows the Mathews building in the foreground and the Daniels building in the background. The old house at the left is one of two that were razed to make room for the new Shain Research Tower.
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This photograph, also from1978, shows the Daniels building from the northeast, on the corner of University Avenue and Mills Street.
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This is the Mathews building in the year of its completion, 1962.
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The ceremonial groundbreaking for the Mathews building took place in 1960. Those participating are (left to right) Farrington Daniels, Edwin Larsen, Conrad Elvehjem (holding shovel), Fred Risser, Ward Ross, J. H. Mathews, Mark Ingraham, Carl Steiger, Ray Rothermel, Walter Frautschi, A. W. Peterson, Bernard Mautz, and Edward Rosten.
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The "new" chemistry building in 1947, now Chamberlin Hall across University Avenue from the current chemistry building.
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The "new" chemistry building in 1920, before the completion of the east addition, but after the west addition. Additions to chemistry buildings are nothing new in Madison.
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Shown in the foreground of this 1908 aerial view is the "new" chemistry building, which was completed in 1905. The photo was taken from the chimney (no longer in existence) of the University Avenue heating plant. In the background is Bascom Hall with its dome. Beyond that, barely visible on the shore of Lake Mendota and just to the left of the smokestack, is the "old" chemistry building.
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The "old" chemistry building, constructed in 1877 at 600 N Park Street. After chemistry moved to its new building on University Avenue in 1905, this building, known as Goon Park because of its address, became home to the psychology department. The building has since been razed, and the site is now occupied by Helen C. White Hall.
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"New" Science Hall, shown in this 1890 photograph, still stands as a national landmark at the west end of Langdon Street. Some chemistry classes were held in this building, across Observatory Drive from the old chemistry building. It is "new" because it replaced "old" Science Hall, which was constructed in 1876 on the same site, but was destroyed by fire in 1885.
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"Old" Science Hall was destroyed by fire in 1885. Before that, some chemistry classes were held here, even after completion of the chemistry building just north across Observatory Drive.
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Chemistry classes and labs moved to University Hall after it was completed in 1858 and remained there until moving to Science Hall in 1877. University Hall, considerably modified over the years, is now known as Bascom Hall.
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The first chemistry class at the University of Wisconsin met in 1854 in North Hall, the first building constructed on campus. It still stands on Bascom Hill, where it is now home to the political science department.
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