Temporary structures had to be built immediately following World War II to offset increased housing demands for men from the armed services whose education was provided for by the Federal Government. Permanent structures could not be funded until post-war material and labor shortages ended. In 1945,…
The original Falcon's Nest was a log building constructed in 1942 to serve as a social gathering place for students. The second floor was also used as a residence for men during a time of scarce housing. The student population quickly outgrew the Nest, and the building was sold to the American…
Completed 1959, this was the first building on campus to be funded by the cigarette tax bond issue passed by Ohio voters in 1955 to aid state universities, public school systems, and mental institutions. First known as the Home Economics building, it contained classrooms, demonstration rooms, and…
University administrators approved plans for construction of a Fine Arts Center in 1948 to centralize all artistic activities on-campus. Previously, the various sections of the Art Department were scattered campus-wide in a manner which prevented efficient coordination of department affairs. In…
A fireworks display goes off above Memorial Hall as part of BGSU's homecoming week centennial celebration. This image shows the south side of Memorial Hall and the west side of the Jerome Library.
The first residence used to house a university president pre-dated the university by thirty years. It was built in 1880 by the Wooster family, early settlers to the area.
President Homer B. Williams, the first president of the Bowling Green Normal College, lived in the large farmhouse at 725 E…
Former Jerome Library directors and deans (left to right) Melville Spence (1971-78), Richard Carpenter (1970-71), Dwight Burlingame (1978-84), Rush Miller (1986-94), and Linda Dobb (1995-1999) at the Library's 30th anniversary celebration.
The construction of Founders Quadrangle was a function of the population increase and housing shortage that plagued the university in the mid-1950s. Founders Quadrangle was named for the men who had successfully worked to establish Bowling Green Normal School in 1910. Four separate but connected…
Fraternity Row consists of a series of "cottage-type" dormitories occupied by male social organizations and built during the late 1940s. Similar to the female houses on sorority row, university administrators approved construction of the male units to relieve the on-campus housing shortage and to…
Originally constructed as one of the "cottage-like structures" built under the administration of President Prout, university administrators converted the "French House" to a building that would be the center of French activities and increase cultural diversity on-campus. Administrators designed the…
Don Rose receiving the Friends of the University Libraries Award. Left to right: Staff member Bill Schurk, recipient Don Rose, and BGSU News Service staff member Teri Sharp.
Friends of the University Libraries awards presentation. L to R: Dr. Charles Rich, Geology; Dr. Richard Lineback, Philosophy; Dr. Edmund Danziger, History; Dr. Dennis East, Library.