Women in the History of the Campus Built Environment
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15 Women’s Quad 20 Museum of Natural and Cultural History Composed of Gerlinger Hall, Hendricks Hall, and Susan The Museum of Natural and Cultural History features exhibits Campbell Hall, the Women’s Quad (1910’s-1920’s) was built showcasing the history of Oregon. It’s a place for digging into to accommodate women living on campus during this time. science, celebrating culture, and joining together to create a just and Hendricks and Susan Campbell were the first major women sustainable world.A Their exhibit,B “Racing C to Change: D Oregon’s CivilE F G H I J K L M N O P dorms to be built on campus. During the time of Luella Clay Rights Years - The Eugene Story” chronicles the civil rights movement Carson as Dean of Women, tennis courts were located on the in Eugene during 1960 - 1970, and illuminates legacies of racism and Women’s Quad. No woman on campus was allowed to play the unceasing efforts of Oregon’s Black communities to bring about basketball – a sport she found “rough and unladylike”. Now, social12 and political change. Some of the women leading this effort and 12 UO is home to one of the most prominent women’s basketball featured in this exhibit are Mattie Reynolds, Annie D. Mims, and Lyllye teams in PAC-12 history. Nearby between Collier House and Reynolds-Parker. W Hendricks, adjacent to the Women’s Quad, the former Mary To Autzen illa 11 Stadium Complex me 11 tte Spiller House (razed in 1951/52) was built in 1908 to provide 21 Many Nations Longhouse and Mother’s Day Powwow housing for 20 women and in honor of Spiller, the first woman Since 2005, the Many Nations Longhouse has been home to the Native Women Riverinfront Fields the History member of the UO faculty. American Student Union. The Mother’s Day Powwow is hosted every EAST BROADWAY ST FRANKLIN BLVD year10 by the NASU. The event has been celebrated for over 50 years and Bike Path Ri 10 16 Susan Campbell Hall T ve S r H was designatedG Baker as an Oregon Heritage Tradition in 2018 by the Oregon I of the Campus Constructed in early 1921, as the second all-woman’s dormitory, H Downtown FR T A Center N Millrace Dr State Parks. This free event open to the public celebratesS indigenous K Barnhart LI Susan Campbell Hall reflects a time when more women were D N Campus Planning and Garage B R LV Facilities Management educators,EAST 10TH AVE mothers, graduating Native American seniors, and the D Y LYA ZIRC MILLRACE D moving away from home with more independence, enrolling I CPFM R W H Central Admin Fine Arts K 10th & Mill Photo credit: Around the O P winner of the Miss Indian UO pageant through traditional dance and Power Built EnvironmentStudios T Building Wilkinson in college, and receiving university educations. The original N 9 M Station Millrace 9 illra House O ce Studios R 1600 Innovation ceremony. Graduating seniors are honored with blankets as a gift F building consisted of three separate houses, each of which Woodshop R Millrace Center E V I contained nine to twelve 4-women suites. Each suite had a and honor from the Native American community. The weekend-long Urban24 R EAST 11TH AVE EAST 11TH AVE East 11th Avenue Farm Millrace celebration ends with a salmon bake at the Many Nations Longhouse. KC study room, wardrobe, dressing chamber, and sleeping porch. Riley Franklin Blvd. Annex T Robinson T T S S Villard S 8 Theatre 8 Northwest McKenzie Y H The meeting room and study space near the front of the L Lawrence Knight Campus R L 9 G Christian MILLER THEATRE COMPLEX I I R PeaceHealth 1715 M E 22 Lyllye H Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center University 10 building are still in use today. F North Hope Cascade Franklin Theatre Annex This center is named for Lyllye Reynolds-Parker, a civil rights activist Lewis EAST 12TH AVE EAST 12TH AVE University Onyx Bridge 8 Integrative T Pacific Streisinger S PeaceHealth UO Hall Allan Price 17 Gerlinger Hall Science S and UO alumna, who used her talents as an UO studentUniversity advisor District for 17Annex Computing Allen Cascade Science Klamath S Commons MRI O G Lillis 2 M AR 7 L O K E Y S C I E N C E C O M P L E X DE 7 Originally named “Women’s Memorial Hall” and built in 1919, years. She has the incredible ability to make anyone feel welcomed T N LILLIS BUSINESS COMPLEX S A 4 Willamette Huestis Jaqua VE Oregon D Duck Chiles 7 Lokey Academic R the building housed the Department of Physical Training for from the moment you meet her. She was born in Eugene in a house Fenton Friendly A Peterson Anstett Columbia Laboratories Center L Store L 3 I 11 F V R Deschutes ANK Rainier EAST 13TH AVE T L EAST 13TH AVE T Women. Irene H. Gerlinger, the first woman on the UO Board without running water, discriminated against throughout her life, Restricted Vehicle Access East 13th Avenue EAST 13TH AVE IN B S LV S Thompson's Volcanology D T H U University Condon Chapman 5 C University Watson Burgess Ford 23 N E of Regents, began a long campaign for the building in 1915, Carson T and went to college as a 40-year-old single mother. The center was L E Health, Boyn Franklin Park Johnson S Alumni Center ier A 6 B ton Coll To Springfield 6 W Collier Counseling, A EAST 13TH ALY Tykeson I Center and consulted with architect Ellis Lawrence on its design. The dedicated in her honor on October 12th, 2019. Reynolds-Parker has House6 1 and Testing Hamilton B Matthew Knight Erb Memorial Cloran Unthank M Arena Johnson Lane JOHNSON LANE U 13th Ave Union (EMU) L O Garage building was renamed Gerlinger Hall for Irene in 1929. It was inspired many through her career and activism, and is an important Prince Robbi C Parking Schnitzer McClain ns EAST 14TH AVE Lucien and Museum T Hawthorne Tingle Spiller 15 S described as “a monument to noble womanhood”, and it is a figure in the history of women at UO. Mabel Janet Byrd is also an Campbell Susan McClure Romania Transportation 12 X T of Art Dyment McAlister S Y Thornton T 16 Willcox (PLC) Campbell North DeCou Schafer Warehouse T N Morton S T N East Campus S Hendricks O Caswell DeBusk S Living O Walton Bean landmark to the emerging roles of women in the 20th century. D inspiring5 alumni figure for women of color, considering Black people 5 University Street University R S R Earl Graduate Village EAST 14TH ALY D East I E Learning Bean R Straub Adams Sweetser Bean A Agate Street Agate E D Sheldon YA L C L T Center West Moore One of these noble women, Abigail Scott Duniway, (1834 - 1915), I 13 A Parsons T 18 were systematically excluded from Oregon until the 1920’s, as she N H Douglass I 14 Gerlinger Stafford South UO Police K 17 Henderson PA Clark Smith Ganoe Department Young is remembered as the “Pioneer Woman Suffragist of the Great advocated for civil rights and enrolled at UO in 1917. She was the first East 15th Avenue East Station EAST 15TH AVE Gerlinger EAST 15TH AVE 22 Knight Onyx St. Alder Annex Museum of Parker Northwest.” She led the campaign to achieve voting rights for African American student to attend UO. Library 19 Natural and Black D LV B 4 Artificial 20 Cultural Global Cultural 4 Oregon women until 1912, when women gained the ballot. If Student T EAST 15TH ALY Turf Knight History Scholars Center N Recreation Field 1 Law U O Y Lokey Hall T BIRCH LN L T M S Y 23 Yell ‘O Statue at Matthew Knight Arena L A S T Center T R there’s time, visit the historic Gerlinger lounge space inside. T Education A LY I Hayward S D S S D D A Esslinger R D E R T Field R FA Many S T A R T A A U S The infamous Yell ‘O Statue, positioned prominently between L U A EAST 16TH AVE A L H N L Nations O L N I H G 21 L I C T L M V A C A Pioneer V R S Longhouse A NORTH R W 18 Luna Sculpture O W Y Matthew Knight Arena and the Ford Alumni Center, stands 8 feet tall Education O T NILI I McArthur Artificial 3 HEDCO Annex S Turf LERC Olum 3 “Luna” (2014) is a bronze sculpture located in the Straub Hall R Court to greet fans into the arena. Led by 2011 UOEAST 1 6graduateTH ALY Alison Brown,Education E Field 2 Military Moss V I Science Kalapuya Street N Student Green designed by American sculptor and UO graduate, Ellen with a team of 20 artists, “Yell –O” took one year to create. Brown was U UniversityTennis of Oregon Oregon Ilihi Children's ROSE LN Cemet ery Courts Eugene Fire Law Center Department Beall Clinic Tykeson. “Luna is an archetypal female figure that juxtaposes EAST 17TH AVE Ombuds EAST 17TH AVE previously a resident advisor in the Living Learning Center, turning Concert Self-guided Tour, June 2021 Jane Sanders Stadium Y the beauty of the mysterious with acceptance of the burdens L Frohnmayer Outdoor Artificial her dorm room into a makeshift studio as she juggled sculptingA with Hammer Field 2 Music Tennis Turf 2 R The University of Oregon has a rich history of women that is reflected in the campus EC Clinical Field 3 E Courts inherent in life.