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These include Ernest L. Stouffer, Nathan Clifford Ricker, Charles A. Platt, James M. White, Clarence Howard Blackall, Holabird & Roche, and W.C. Zimmerman.
While Chemistry Annex is physically attached to the north side of Davenport Hall it is connected to Noyes Lab via a tunnel.
A popular myth is that the building's distinctive architecture was a result of its being designed to house a supercomputer on campus called PLATO.
PLATO itself was real, but referred not to a secret government program, but rather to the first "modern" electronic learning system, the predecessor of course software like WebCT and Mallard.
The mainframe computer that ran the PLATO system was located in north campus, in a building which used to reside on the west side of the Bardeen Quad.
[citation needed] Foellinger Aditorium marks the southern terminus of the Main Quad, directly facing the Illini Union.
Gregory Hall lies due west of Foellinger and houses numerous departments within the College of Media and LAS, including philosophy, economics, and history.
A big bust of Abraham Lincoln outside the entrance to the theater has its nose polished and nearly worn away after decades of students' rubbing it for good luck prior to a test.
[13] Influenced by a new campus plan, an addition, designed by William Carbys Zimmerman, was added in 1913 to the Quad side of the Women's Building.
This new addition of classrooms and meeting rooms formed the square shaped plan and called for the creation the East side, two-story, white portico.
Designed by Nathan Clifford Ricker, the Romanesque building was the compromise between John Altgeld's preference of Gothic revival style and the classical architecture desired by the board of trustees.
The 10,000-pound statue depicts a mother-figure wearing academic robes and flanked by two attendant male and female figures representing "Learning" and "Labor" after the university's motto.
The UIUC libraries house the largest collection of books of any public university in the United States, reaching over thirteen million volumes.
The building was designated as the National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior in 1989 as the birthplace in the early 1900s of photoelectric photometry through the work of Dr. Joel Stebbins.
The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology is one of the newest facilities on campus and lies just east of the Morrow Plots.
The facility was open in Spring 2005 and has 110,000 square feet (10,000 m2) of activity space with an aquatic center, racquetball courts, gymnasium and a 3-lane indoor track.
David Kinley Hall (DKH) is home to the departments of Political Science and Economics, and is used for many classes in the College of LAS.
David Kinley Hall is one of the northernmost buildings on the South Quad, lying directly across Gregory Drive from the Main Library.
Notable features within the building includes ornamental metal works by Louis Sullivan and a cast of Gates to Paradise of the Florence Baptistry.
Today the Ricker Library contains more than 120,000 volumes and 33,000 serials, 35,000 microforms, and a small but burgeoning collection of videos, making it one of the largest of its kind in the United States.
The university has proposed moving the structure to the south farm, where it would house a welcome center for the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.
[citation needed] On Wednesday, 11 March 2009, the University of Illinois Board of Trustees met and Mumford House was discussed.
Board Secretary Michelle Thompson was instructed to draft a resolution for their next meeting, stating that the Mumford House shall remain in its original location permanently.
The ACES Library and Information and Alumni Center dominates the northern end of the South Quad and can be seen from very far away, especially because of its unusual appearance and octagonal shape.
The Agriculture Engineering Sciences Building is directly east and across the South Quad from Buell Hall and is part of the College of ACES.
2008 changes include networking upgrades, a wood shop, a spray painting room, and a printing studio with plotters, laser cutters, and a CNC Machine.
Future plans include the installation of furniture and basic appliances for student lounge spaces throughout the building (announced at the Fall 2007 studio open house).
Noble Hall also offers research project and doctoral student workspace for the School of Urban and Regional Planning.
These include computer labs, printers, studio and workshop space, and a checkout window allowing students to rent equipment.
Unit One is known for a liberal arts feel within a large, Research 1 campus, and brings guests-in-residence to stay for a week at a time to do educational programming.
