Watterson Towers

The 28-story complex holds over 2,200 students and stands at 91m (298.5 feet),[citation needed] making it one of the tallest brutalist structures in the world.

The building was designed by Fridstein and Fitch Architects in Chicago, and built by C. Iber and Sons Company of Peoria, Illinois.

Watterson is composed of ten of these houses, (five in each tower), and each is considered—in terms of campus governance—to be its own residence hall.

[3] In 1971, a 21-year old ISU student jumped to her death after prying off a mesh screen from the window of her 18th floor room.

The Oak Lawn woman's death was the first fatal fall from a high rise building on ISU's campus.

Reports say she leaned back on the scaffolding and plummeted 200 feet to her death in front of hundreds of spectators.