Located on the south side of Farrand Field, between the Wardenburg Health Center and Willard Hall, it was completed in 1954 and designed by Trautwein & Howard (Philadelphia) and Peterson & Linstedt (Denver).
[1] In the Summer of 2007 Cheyenne Arapaho underwent the Residential Annual Modernization Program (RAMP) which updated community bathrooms, installed new flooring, doors, electronic locks and window coverings and repainted the building's entire interior.
The hall was formerly named for David H. Nichols, Captain, Company H, 3rd Colorado Volunteers, who was at Sand Creek, and was an early proponent of the University.
[5] Cheyenne Arapaho Hall is reference in The State of Native America by M. Annette Jaimes.
Cheyenne Arapaho Hall consists of two wings with a main lobby containing a Grab-N-Go titled Piazanos[6] which offers 100 percent natural, and organic (when available) food and beverages which opened Spring 2006.