[2] The original Longyear Hall, named for prominent Marquette real estate developer and early Northern Michigan Normal School patron John Munroe Longyear, was constructed in 1900,[5] the year after Northern was founded.

A second Longyear Building, a reconstruction of the original, was built in 1907, based on a design by Battle Creek architect E. W.

[4] Despite being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980,[1] Longyear Hall was torn down in 1993.

[4] The Longyear Hall of Pedagogy was a rectangular two-and-one-half-story structure built with a steel frame sheathed with local Marquette brownstone, with a hipped roof and gabled dormers.

[5] A stone beltcourse ran between the first and second stories, and a dentil cornice edged the top of the structure.