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the old and new crescent
Franklin Hall. Built in 1907 as the campus library, Franklin Hall was renamed and repurposed to become the Student Services Building after the new main library was built in 1969. Starting in 2014, Franklin Hall was renovated and modernized to house a new Media School, established by the IU Board of Trustees in 2013. The Media School, which combines the departments of telecommunications, journalism, and communication and culture, opened its doors to students at Franklin Hall in 2016.
Ernie Pyle Sculpture at Franklin Hall. One of IU’s favorite alumni never graduated from Indiana University. Journalist and IU alumnus Ernie Pyle, class of 1923, left IU just short of graduation to take a newspaper job and pursue his reporting career. Pyle went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his war correspondence from the front lines during World War II and accept an honorary degree from IU. His columns about the day-to-day experiences of soldiers overseas captured the hearts of readers worldwide.
Frances Morgan Swain Student Building. During her tenure as IU’s first lady from 1893–1902, IU alumna Frances Morgan Swain campaigned to attract women students and create a women’s building on campus. Swain organized an IU Women’s League and raised $6,500 for the project. The coeducational Student Building built in part with those funds was renamed the Frances Morgan Swain Student Building in 2016.
Limestone carving.
Maxwell Hall on a bright autumn day. Originally built in 1890 to house the university’s library, the Richardsonian Romanesque Maxwell Hall is widely considered to be one of IU’s most beautiful buildings.
A view of Maxwell Hall through a Rose Well House portico. A limestone grotesque atop Maxwell Hall. Wylie Hall. Wylie Hall was named for Indiana University’s first president, Reverend Andrew Wylie, and his cousin, professor Theophilus A. Wylie.
Dunn’s Woods. Dunn’s Woods is part of a parcel of land originally inhabited by the Delaware, Potawatomi, Miami, Shawnee, and Eel River Miami people, and purchased from settler Moses Dunn in 1883 for the creation of the present IU campus. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Kirkwood Hall. Originally named after mathematics professor and astronomer Daniel Kirkwood, Kirkwood Hall, built in 1894, is one of the oldest buildings on the IU campus. In 2017 IU dedicated a new School of Art and Design to be administered at Kirkwood Hall.
Rose Well House. The Rose Well House includes stone porticos repurposed from the First University Building at IU’s nineteenth-century Seminary Square campus. Designed to cover a cist...
