SOURCES FOR ARCHITECTURE AND HISTORY OF ASU CAMPUS BUILDINGS
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Our access tools will be more useful to you if you are aware of the year of construction and the current and historic names of the building in question. The ASU General Catalog and Graduate Catalog have lists of buildings with their dates of construction 1886-1980. More recent buildings can be identified through the ASU Newspaper Index online.
An electronic index to Archives newsclipping files, photographs and manuscripts regarding campus buildings 1885-1988. Search by the current and historic names of the building.
An electronic Index to articles in the State Press, ASU Insight, and ASU Insight West, 1987-present.
A comprehensive history of ASU with over 300 downloadable publication-quality photographs, 1885-2000. Several buildings depicted under “Landmarks”.
An electronic index to finding aids of archival records located at all three Arizona public universities. Enter “Advanced Search” to limit your search to ASU University Archives materials.
PUBLICATIONS: ( Most of these titles refer to older buildings, note the dates of publication. )
Thomas, Alfred, Arizona State University: Documentary History of the First Seventy-Five Years , 1960, Vol.4, Part X.
Call#: 6.20 T361 Vol.4
Location: HAYDEN ARCHIVES
Smith, Dean, Men to Match our Buildings , 1967.
Call#: REF
Location: HAYDEN ARCHIVES REF
------, A Guide to the Architecture of Metro Phoenix , pp.148-159.
Call#: NA735 P52 G8 1983.
Location: HAYDEN ARIZONA REF
------, "By Design", Arizona State Magazine , Spring, 1994, pp.14-18.
Call#: 59.18 Ar47
Location: HAYDEN ARCHIVES
University Archives, Arizona State University Libraries, Vanished ASU , 1990 [exhibit catalog]
Call#: REF
Location: HAYDEN ARCHIVES REF
Dedication programs for many campus buildings are available from the Archives File Ephemera Collection.
Call#: UE EPH - <Building Name>
Location: HAYDEN ARCHIVES
News articles about campus buildings from the State Press, ASU Insight and other local papers from 1885-1987 can be gleaned from the Archives Card Catalog. Ask the reference archivist for access to the card catalog. Hardcopy of ASU Insight, ASU Insight West and ASU Insight East are available from the reference archivist given the date of issue.
Construction specifications, correspondence and memoranda regarding many campus buildings are available within official university records. Ask the reference archivist for the guides to the following collections:
Office of the President, Arizona State University, Records, 1963-1981 , pp. 12-13, 38-39.
Call#: MSS-1 (ARCV) [include Box and Folder number]
Location: HAYDEN ARCHIVES
Office of the President (Schwada), Arizona State University, Records, 1961-1984 , pp.44-45.
Call#: MSS-125 [include Box and Folder number]
Location: HAYDEN ARCHIV
University Records Collection, 1885-1990 , pp.41-48, 66.
Call#: MSS-98 [include Box and Folder number]
Location: HAYDEN ARCHIV
Completed National Register of Historic Placesnomination forms for a number of historically significant campus buildings are available from the reference archivist.
"As built" architectural drawings for all currently occupied campus structures are located at Facilities Planning and Construction by appointment only. Contact Karl Kaufman at 965-6903. Copies of drawings for some older campus buildings are included in the "Archival Records" described above.
Rob Spindler, University Archivist
3/28/2006
Page last modified: July 14, 2008
