Campus of the University of Oregon

The campus of the University of Oregon is located in Eugene, Oregon, and includes some 80 buildings and facilities, including athletics facilities such as Hayward Field, which was the site of the 2008 Olympic Track and Field Trials, and McArthur Court, and off-campus sites such as nearby Autzen Stadium and the Riverfront Research Park.

Source:[1] The campus opened in Eugene on October 16, 1876, in an 18-acre former wheat field purchased from Reverend J. H. D. Henderson.

[4] Henry Villard, president of the Northern Pacific Railway, averted the sale of the campus by paying many of the debts himself, and he later established a $50,000 endowment.

The purchase of Collier House included a barn that was converted to classroom space and used as an observatory.

[6] A brief description of Collier and his property, including mention of other members of the historic university community, was prepared by Friends of the Eugene Masonic Cemetery.

The old-campus era ended in the second decade of the 20th century when it became evident that the university needed a campus planner.

It was fashionable to design campus buildings in the style of the University of Oxford, making them seem historic.

"[9] But Lawrence resisted the copy-Oxford fashion, and he designed in a variety of other styles, often influenced by his Beaux-Arts training.

In 1940, Cuthbert designed formal entrance gates to the university, including a motorway that would lead visitors past the old campus area to the new Memorial Quadrangle.

[17] Visitors to campus sometimes remark that the era is characterized by beautiful outdoor spaces and architectural harmony.

After World War II, enrollment at the university dramatically increased, partly because of a federal education subsidy known as the G.I.

[18] The campus added new science buildings during this era to keep up with demand for increasingly technical degree programs, and with increased attendance at football games, Autzen Stadium opened in 1967, shifting the football program away from Hayward Field and off campus.

The work featured a numerical, abbreviated coding system offered by George Carroll, a professor of biology, that included the family, genus, and species of each tree on campus.

[21] The following is a list of important dates and events leading to the creation of the buildings present on the University campus today.

Map of the campus
Main sign at the Agate Street entrance to the University
A view of Deady Hall soon after construction. Image courtesy of the Oregon State Library.
Some old-campus buildings are visible in this view of the first American football game played at the University of Oregon on March 24, 1894. Villard Hall and Deady Hall are in the upper left, and the gymnasium is in the distance behind Deady Hall. Friendly Hall and Collier House are in the upper right. The football field is roughly on the site of the modern Lillis Business Complex and the Computing Center. Kincaid Street is in the foreground, and the lines of 13th Avenue are along the right. Image courtesy of the Oregon Daily Emerald.
A view of Hendricks Hall in the Women's Memorial Quadrangle. To the left is the Mary Spiller House, a dormitory that was destroyed in 1951 to open that area of campus to formal landscaping. Image courtesy of the Oregon State Library.
A European yellow ash, Fraxinus excelsior aurea , listed in Knapp as 56F3 and in the Atlas as FREXA. The tree was lost to expansion when construction began on the Miller Theatre Complex.
Administration Building circa 1920