Morrill Hall

Morrill Hall has watched the history of Iowa State unfold. Built in 1890, the building was named after Justin Smith Morrill, who introduced the Land Grant Act, making Iowa State possible. The building has watched students climb its steps to attend chapel and to browse in the library. It shuddered, when pranksters of the 1800s sneaked a cow into its chapel. It watched students attend zoology, entomology, and geology laboratories.

The building sat empty from 1998-2005. Construction crews began work in the spring of 2005 to renovate the building. When renovation is complete (now scheduled for January 2007), the tenants of Morrill Hall will be a University Museums special collection, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, and a new Center for Visual Learning in Textiles and Clothing. Contributions from more than 3,200 private donors account for the majority of the funding needed to give new life to the 114-year-old building.

See: http://www.iastate.edu/morrill/
and http://www.iastate.edu/morrill/02/history.shtml

This site is co-sponsored by the ISU Alumni Association and the University Archives, ISU Library.