Campus Buildings
- In a snowy outdoor ceremony on Sept. 20, 1875, Boulder town officials and members of the Masonic Grand Lodge placed a small tin box with nearly 50 items in the cornerstone of what would become Old Main.
- ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s College of Music celebrated its 100th birthday in style last year with a stunning 64,000-square-foot, $57 million expansion funded by numerous private donors and a university matching capital grant.Â
- Hale was the first science building on campus and at one point housed all the sciences, a small museum and the School of Law. The building was named after the second university president, Horace Hale.
- The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences includes a bioastronautics lab, a payload operations center with a real-time communications link to the International Space Station and an indoor drone testing space.
- A breathtaking view of the Flatirons from the balcony of the Center for Academic Success and Engagement (CASE) building, located in the heart of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s Main Campus.
- Sweeping Flatirons views and a large bronze buffalo sculpture rank among the many charms of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s newest central campus building.
- The Armory building was the original site of the Colorado National Guard.
- When the cottage was first built, it provided dining facilities for 100, sleeping rooms for 12, a bath and an office for the house chaperone.
- CU's Macky Auditorium has had some impressive names step onto its stage, including Eleanor Roosevelt and the Dalai Lama.
- The Guggenheim Geography building served as the Law School until 1958 and was the first privately-funded building on campus.