Campus of Iowa State University

The ISU Alumni Center was completed in the fall 2008 as an $11.2 million, 34,500-square-foot (3,210 m²) facility, built to house Iowa State University's Alumni Association and Student Alumni Leadership Council.^[9]

"Duplex C" was renamed "Richards House" in 1957 for Ellen H. Richards, who was the first president of the American Home Economics Association (AHEA). In 1962, the east side kept the name "Richards", while the west side was named for Benjamin R. Andrews, an editor for the AHEA in the early 1900s. The building is now named "Andrews-Richards House".

Departments in the Armory:

• Air Force Aeronautical Studies
• Architecture
• Art/Design
• Landscape Architecture
• Military Science
• Naval Science
• Public Safety (Police and Parking divisions)

Departments in Atanasoff Hall:

• Computer Science

When a fire destroyed the "Old Main" building in 1902, it was determined that a new administration building was needed and the location of Old Main was the best location. As a result of the fire to Old Main, fireproofing the new building was a high priority. Fireproof buff Bedford stones were used extensively in the construction of the new Central Building. Massive scagliola columns were used in the interior, columns so like marble that even experts were deceived. The building materials were so fireproof that only the hardwood furniture was capable of burning.^[10]

The building was constructed in 1906 and was built completely out of stone and brick. Today, Beardshear Hall holds the following offices:

• President
• Vice-president
• Treasurer
• Secretary
• Registrar
• Student financial aid
• Provost

The Steve and Debbie Bergstrom Indoor Training Facility opened in March 2004. It is a 92,000-square-foot (8,500 m²) multi-purpose, indoor practice facility. Inside the facility is a full-sized Astro turf football field. Though typically associated with football, it is also used for practice by the softball and soccer teams, as well as community events. The building sits just northwest of Jack Trice Stadium and is part of the Johnny Majors Practice Complex. The facility cost $9.6 million to build and was funded by private gifts to the athletic department and ISU Foundation.^[11]

Departments in Bessey Hall:

• Botany
• Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
• Natural Resource Ecology & Management (Animal Ecology and Forestry)
• Plant Pathology
• Plant Sciences Institute

Beyer Hall is home to Iowa State's women's swimming and diving team and women's gymnastics team (men's swimming and diving and gymnastics teams have been discontinued at Iowa State). The swimming and diving team practices and holds competition in the Beyer Pool, a six-lane, T-shaped, 25-yard competitive pool with an attached diving well, and seating for approximately 800 spectators. The Beyer Pool has hosted the 1963 and 1971 NCAA meets, as well as numerous conference championships.^[12] Though the gymnastics team competes in Hilton Coliseum, they practice across the hall from Beyer Pool in the Amy and Dennis Pyle Family Gymnastics Facility. Renovated in 2002, the practice facility is used by collegiate and elementary athletes alike.^[13]

Departments in Black Engineering Building:

• Mechanical Engineering
• Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

The campanile was constructed in 1897–1898 as a memorial to Margaret MacDonald Stanton, Iowa State's first dean of women, who died on July 25, 1895. The tower is located on ISU's central campus, just north of the Memorial Union (Iowa State University). The site was selected by Margaret's husband, Edgar W. Stanton, with the help of then-university president William M. Beardshear. The campanile stands 110 feet (34 m) tall on a 16 by 16-foot (5 by 5 m) base, and cost $6,510.20 to construct.^[14]

The campanile is widely seen as one of the major symbols of Iowa State University. It is featured prominently on the university's official ring^[15] and the university's mace,^[16] and is also the subject of the university's alma mater ("The Bells of Iowa State").

Carver Hall is an academic building completed in 1969 at Iowa State UniversityinAmes, Iowa to accommodate rapid increases in enrollment.^[17] It is named for George Washington Carver, who earned his bachelor's degree from Iowa State University in 1894 and his master's in 1896 and served on the Iowa State faculty. George Washington Carver is best known as the inventor of peanut butter. A statue of him created by the internationally acclaimed sculptor Christian Petersen is displayed in a courtyard north of the building's lobby, to honor George Washington Carver's lifelong work in science and human relations.^[18]

Named for Carrie Chapman Catt, an American women's rights activist and founder of the League of Women Voters. She graduated from Iowa State in 1880 at the top of her class. The building has been known by a variety of names over its history. It was originally known as Agriculture Hall when it was built in 1893, and was later named Agricultural Engineering Building, then Botany Hall, then Old Botany Hall, after the botany department moved to Bessey Hall. The building's interior was gutted and renovated in 1992, at which point it was given its current name and purpose as the administrative office for the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Offices/Departments in Catt Hall:

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Philosophy and Religious Studies

Department in Coover Hall:

• Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department in Davidson Hall:

• Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

• Architecture
• Art and Design
• Community and Regional Planning
• Landscape Architecture

Housed in the Durham Center is the Solution Center along with a reconstruction of the Atanasoff–Berry Computer.

Also housed in the Durham Center is the ISU Foundation PhoneCenter. The PhoneCenter is staffed by student callers who contact alumni across the nation fundraising for scholarships, building renovations, faculty support, study abroad and much more. In fiscal year 2006–2007 the PhoneCenter raised over $3.3 million and reached over 145,000 of Iowa State's alumni.

Current departments in East Hall:

• Anthropology
• Sociology

The Enrollment Services Center is a building at Iowa State UniversityinAmes, Iowa. It houses Offices in Enrollment Services: Admissions, Orientation, Records and registration. In 1978, the building was placed on the National Register of Historic places.^[21]

Farm House was the first building built on the land set aside for the Iowa State College. As The Farm House (Knapp-Wilson House), it was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964. Built between 1860 and 1865 of brick, it was later coated with stucco in 1909 and recoated in 1999. The first tenant, William A. Fitzpatrick, lived in the house from 1861 to 1863. Since Fitzpatrick 16 other families have lived in this house, including agriculturist and teacher Seaman A. Knapp and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson (disambiguation).

Fisher Theater was named for J. W. Fisher of Marshalltown, Iowa. J. W. Fisher was a major contributor to the university and the Iowa State Center. Fisher Theater was completed in 1974 at a cost of $900,000. The theater seats 454 and is mainly used by Iowa State student theater and dance groups.^[22]

Departments in Gerdin Business Building:

• Business

Departments in Gilman Hall:

• Chemistry

Departments in Hamilton Hall:

• Journalism (Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication)
• Iowa State Daily (student newspaper)

Departments in Heady Hall:

• Economics
• Sociology

James H. Hilton Coliseum is a 14,356-seat multi-purpose arenainAmes, Iowa. The arena, which is part of the Iowa State Center, opened in 1971. It is home to the Iowa State University Cyclones basketball, wrestling, gymnastics and volleyball teams.

Hilton Coliseum was named after Dr. James H. Hilton who was the president of Iowa State University who presented the idea for the Iowa State Center. Hilton Coliseum was completed in 1971 at a cost of $8.1 million. Hilton Coliseum can seat approximately 14,000 for athletic events and 15,000 for concerts. The first event in Hilton was an agriculture conference; the first athletic event was a men's basketball game between Iowa State and Arizona in which ISU won.

The $10 million, Hixson-Lied Student Success Center, was designed for improving academic achievement campus wide, with the second floor devoted specifically to student athletes. The facility was built using private contributions. Since its completion in 2006, Iowa State student athletes have dramatically improved in the class room and now boost a higher average GPA (Grade point average) than the rest of the student body.^[23]

Offices/Departments in Hoover Hall:

• Engineering administration
• Material Science and Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Offices/Departments in Howe Hall:

• Aerospace Engineering
• Engineering administration
• Virtual Reality Applications Center

Located off the north end zoneofJack Trice Stadium, The Jacobson Athletic Building houses all football offices, locker rooms, meeting rooms, strength and conditioning room, and sports medicine room. In addition to football, it also houses administrative and coaches offices (except men's and women's basketball). The administrative and football offices were renovated in 2008 with the renovation to the Jack Trice Stadium.^[24]

Jack Trice Stadium (formerly Cyclone Stadium) is a stadium in Ames, Iowa. It is primarily used for college football, and is the home field of the Iowa State University Cyclones. It opened on September 20, 1975 (with a win against Air Force), and with hillside tickets it officially has 55,000 seats. The current record for single-game attendance, 56,795, was set on September 8, 2007, when the Cyclones played Northern Iowa.

In 1997, the stadium was named in honor of Jack Trice, ISU's first African American athlete and the school's first athletics-related fatality. The stadium is the only one in Division I-A named for an African American individual.^[25]

Offices/Departments in Lagomarcino Hall:

• Education
• Psychology

The Lied Recreation Center is a multi-purpose building housing the soccer team lockers, practice facility for wrestling, and a 300-meter track for indoor competition. The $13 million center, was host of the 1998, 2000, and 2007 indoor track and field Big 12 Championships. The new mondo track has eight 42-inch lanes, making it the largest and one of the fastest indoor surfaces in the world. There is portable seating for 2,000 spectators and also includes two long jump/triple jump pits and a pole vault runway. The facility also includes showers, saunas, steam rooms, and a sports medicine center.^[26]

Offices in Marston Hall:

• Engineering administration

Symbolically, the hall was built directly over a library (the Browsing Library) and a small chapel, the symbol being that no country would ever send its young men to die in a war for a noble cause without a solid foundation on both education (the library) and religion (the chapel).

Renovations and additions have continued through the years to include: elevators, bowling lanes, a parking ramp, a book store, and additional wings.

Named for Justin Smith Morrill, who created the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act. Construction was completed in 1891 with less than $30,000. Morrill Hall was originally constructed to fill the capacity of a library, museum, and chapel. These original uses are engraved in the exterior stonework on the east side.

It was vacated starting in 1996 when it was determined unsafe. Also in 1996, Morrill Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2005, $9 million was raised to renovate the building and convert it into a museum. Morill Hall has reopened as of March 2007, including the new Christian Petersen Art Museum.

Music Hall is equipped with over sixty pianos, including twenty-two Steinway grands. A practice wing on the ground floor has grand pianos which are reserved for piano majors and advanced piano students. Beginning and intermediate students study group piano in a modern electronic piano lab. The department owns four pipe organs: a seven-stop, two-manual tracker-action instrument by Wolff of Quebec and two two-manual mechanical action organs by Lynn Dobson of Lake City, Iowa, one of three stops and one of seventeen stops. A large three-manual tracker organ of John Brombaugh, situated in the Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, is available to experienced organ students for lessons, accompanying, and performances. Two harpsichords are available: a one-manual instrument by Zuckerman and a large two-manual instrument by William Dowd. the Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall was renovated in 2006.

• Mechanical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering

This building is also the home of several student/campus organizations including the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the Robotics Club. In 2015, the Board of Regents approved a plan for the demolition of the lab and the southern portion of Sweeney Hall to provide the site for the new $80 million Student Innovation Center.

As of November 10, 2006, Parks Library contains:^[27]

• 2,444,263 volumes
• 3,473,037 microform units
• 850,098 photographs and slides
• 108,141 aerial photos and maps
• 51,894 films and videos
• 15,605 linear feet (~5 km) of manuscripts and archives

and

• has 1,543,912 visitors per year
• has 12,818,735 e-visitors per year
• has two sculptures by Christian Petersen
  • Boy and Girl
  • Old Woman in Prayer
• Has a large statue by Stephen De Staebler entitled "Left Sided Angel"
• has four large murals by Grant Wood
  • When Tillage Begins
  • Other Arts Follow- Agriculture
  • Other Arts Follow- Engineering
  • Other Arts Follow- Home Economics
• has 32,993 square feet (3,070 square meters; 0.757 acres) total space with
  • 16,500 square feet (1,533 square metres) of primary building space
  • 3,096 square feet (288 square metres) of space in the Design Reading Room, Design Center
  • 1,209 square feet (112 square metres) of space in the Mathematics Reading Room, Carver Hall
  • 5,557 square feet (516 square metres) of space in the Physical Sciences Reading Room, Office and Lab
  • 6,631 square feet (616 square metres) of space in the Veterinary Medical Library, Veterinary Medicine

Departments in Pearson Hall:

• Theatre
• Foreign Language

Departments in Ross Hall:

• English
• History
• Political Science

Scheman Building was named for Carl Scheman who was an ISU alumnus and a major contributor to the Iowa State Center. It was completed in 1975 at a cost $5.3 million and hosts small and large conferences, board meetings, pre-performance dinners, wedding receptions and much more.

The Scheman Building is also the site of the Brunnier Art Museum. It is the state's only accredited museum emphasizing a decorative arts collection, and one of the nation's few museums located within a performing arts and conference complex.^[22]

Offices in Sloss House:

• Women's Center

Departments in Snedecor Hall:

• Statistics

State Gymnasium is an arena on the campus of Iowa State UniversityinAmes, Iowa. It was opened in 1913, and once was the school's primary indoor athletic facility, before the opening of Hilton Coliseum. It is located at the corner of Union Drive, just north of the site of the former Clyde Williams Stadium.

The brick building was built in two years at a cost of $150,000. It was intended for use as an armory and fieldhouse, something for which the school had been attempting to get funding since the early 1890s. The Iowa State basketball team played in the arena from 1913 until 1946. Beginning in 1946, home games were held in the Armory, which continued until the construction of Hilton Coliseum in 1971. State Gym has since been renovated into recreational facilities, including four basketball courts, a swimming pool (the original home of the swimming team), tennis courts, a 1/12 mile indoor track, and other facilities for recreational sports.

Stephens Auditorium was named after Clifford Y. Stephens for his contribution to the auditorium. Construction started in 1965 and was completed in 1969 with a cost of $4.9 million. The New York Philharmonic Orchestra presented the opening concerts during a week-long festival. The 2,747 seat auditorium was named Building of the Century by the American Institute of Architects, Iowa Chapter in 2004.^[22]

Departments in Sweeney Hall:

• Chemical Engineering

• Knapp Hall (northeast – demolished)
• Storms Hall (northwest – demolished)
• Wallace Hall (southeast)
• Wilson Hall (southwest)
• Two "commons" buildings, each containing a dining hall, meeting rooms, and other common space

The name "towers" is derived from the tall construction of the four buildings. The buildings are (were) thirteen floors, each consisting of:

• one basement floor, used for laundry
• one ground floor
• one maintenance floor
• ten residence floors, each containing
  • 28 double occupancy rooms
  • 2 single occupancy rooms
  • 1 den

Departments in Town Engineering Building:

• Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering

Built in 1976, VET MED is the largest academic building at Iowa State University, with over 347,000 square feet (32,200 m²).^[29] A new veterinary medical center (completed 2008), built onto the south-east side of the building, adds another 218,000 square feet (20,300 m²) onto a massive veterinary medical center and teaching facility.^[30] Spite only having two floors, ISU VET MED building has more square-footage than the second tallest building in the state, the 35 floor Ruan Center in Des Moines.^[31]

When the English Department moved in during 1940 it was renamed English Office Building. The business college placed faculty in this building when the English and speech departments were relocated to Ross Hall and Pearson Hall, respectively, in 1973.