Indiana University iub.edu Bloomington Campus tours “The campus should be a place of beauty that students can walk around and think grand thoughts.” —Herman B Wells Indiana University President 1938–1962 Campus Tours Old Crescent Tour The Indiana University Bloomington main campus is surprisingly compact, but there is 1 even more to see outside our gates. A walking tour is usually the best way to appreciate the natural beauty and architectural details that make this campus so remarkable; there is a driving tour available for our most distant attractions. Choose from excursions that enlighten you on the early history of the campus or that introduce you to our latest athletic additions. From a serene stroll to a hearty hike, there is something for everyone’s taste. Map Key Take one or more self-guided tours depending on your 2 Discovery Tour schedule and interests. 1 Old Crescent Tour (22-minute walk) Architecture abounds on this tour of the oldest buildings on campus. 2 Discovery Tour (30-minute walk) If the sciences are your area of interest, this tour is for you. 3 Big Union Tour (32-minute walk) The hub for students on campus is the center of this tour. 4 Tenth Street Tour (12-minute walk) Big Union Tour 23 A sampling of schools from business to psychology. 5 Fine Arts Tour (34-minute walk) 3 All the world’s a stage and you, a visitor upon it. 6 Cream and Crimson Tour (58-minute walk) Experience the athletics complex up close and personal. 7 Off the Beaten Path Tour (56-minute walk) From the esoteric to the gastronomic, see the landmarks outside our gates. Tenth Street Tour 8 Innovation Tour (11-minute drive) Explore the cutting edge of our growing campus. 4 Campus Tours Beaten Path Tour O the 8 Innovation Tour 7 Map Key link to another tour 6 road / path Cream and Crimson Tour tour path tree of interest 23 see last page for listing of tree names parking Fine Arts Tour Other points of interest that are not featured on these tours include: • IU School of Education • IU School of Optometry 5 • Wylie House Museum Discover more at maps.iu.edu. Seventh Street to Big Union tour Shake his hand before you graduate. Italianate and High Victorian Housed the studio 42 Gothic buildings, of artist-in-residence 3 both built 7 T.C. Steele. in 1885. 2 5 6 4 7 Indiana Avenue 3 8 9 Dunn Avenue 1 Sample Gates, 8 the gateway to campus. What will Adam and Eve tour be wearing this year? 25 to Discovery to O the Beaten Path 2 tour Named after IU’s tenth president 9 and built with Federal Works 1 10 Dunn’s 11 Agency Funds. Woods tour style building features a quotation from John Old Crescent Milton: “A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit.” 3 Student Building* This tour begins and ends at the historic, Gothic style The clock tower, with its 14-bell chime that was cast entrance to the Bloomington campus (Kirkwood and in the Netherlands, was destroyed in a 1990 fire and Indiana). Parking is available in Poplars Garage (Sixth rebuilt from original drawings. Street) or on the street. 4 Maxwell Hall* The highly ornamented building features a carved-leaf 1 Sample Gates and adjoining plaza motif over the arches and around the eaves, a serpent Dedicated in 1987, these were a gift from Edson Sample, head left of the entry, and two bat-like “grotesques” on former director of IU’s Office of Scholarships and the east gables. Financial Aid. 5 Rose Well House* 2 Franklin Hall* Named after former IU trustee Theodore Rose, the The entryway of the Collegiate Gothic and Jacobean structure mimics the shape of Rose’s Beta Theta Pi fraternity pin. Seventh Street to Big Union tour Shake his hand before you graduate. Italianate and High Victorian Housed the studio Gothic buildings, of artist-in-residence both built 7 T.C. Steele. 5 6 in 1885. 6 4 7 Indiana Avenue 3 5 8 Favorite spot 9 Dunn Avenue midnightfor a 1 Sample Gates, kiss. 8 the gateway to campus. What will Adam and Eve tour be wearing this year? 25 to Discovery to O the Beaten Path 2 tour Named after IU’s tenth president 9 and built with Federal Works 1 Dunn’s 11 Agency Funds. Woods tour Old Crescent 6 Herman B Wells (sculpture) 9 Lindley Hall* A well-loved professor, president, and chancellor, Wells Resembling Kirkwood, it has a unique feature not found is credited with fostering the physical and intellectual anywhere else on campus: a single course of greenish- growth that made IU an institution of international gray soft limestone below the first-story windows. renown. 10 Kirkwood Observatory* 7 Owen Hall* and Wiley Hall* Built in 1900, this favorite stargazing spot is open to the These are the only predominantly red brick buildings on public on designated evenings during warm-weather the main campus; at Purdue University, buildings with months. the same names are the only limestone structures! 11 Bryan Hall 8 Kirkwood Hall* Look for the Art Deco stylized owl high on the north side This building has many Romanesque architectural and the spectacular fossiliferous red limestone on the features combined with Second Empire elements. walls of the south-facing second floor. *listed on the Indiana Register of Historic Places tour 3 Rawles Hall Discovery Built in Collegiate Gothic style, with limestone laid in a broken rather than regular ashlar pattern, it houses the mathematics department. This tour begins on Third Street at IU Maurer School of Law, and can be joined from the Old Crescent Tour (walk south 4 Myers Hall from Lindley Hall). Parking is available at the Henderson The Art Deco south entry features a carved limestone garage. frieze of an anatomist, a pharmacologist, and a physiologist, the work of Bedford stone carver Harry Thomas Easton. 1 IU Maurer School of Law The oldest law school west of the Allegheny Mountains, 5 Jordan Hall its alumni include Hoagy Carmichael and Wendell The home of the biology department features a Willkie. spectacular greenhouse and carvings of a microscope and chemical equipment over the entry, just below 2 Swain Hall East and West the roofline. Initially two separate buildings, they were joined in 1957. Swain Hall East was originally the Biology Building 6 Wells Quadrangle and is now the home of the physics department. Formed by Memorial Hall, the site of the first women’s dormitory; Sycamore; Morrison; and Goodbody Halls. It houses a variety of academic departments, classrooms, to Big Union tour to Old Crescent tour 9 IndianaAvenue 24 “Evil spirits cannot 21 1 enter an inhabited house unless invited.” 23 —Sir Walter Scott 2 3 Third Street 4 Housed the rst cyclotron on campus. Third Street S.Woodlawn Avenue Indiana Avenue S. Hawthorne Drive tour offices and institutes, and the Kinsey Institute for 8 Simon Hall Discovery Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. The newest building on this tour, which houses cutting- The ornamentation on Memorial Hall includes an IU edge biomedical research facilities, was built in 2007 seal, a carving of a sleeping student, an owl, and in the Art Moderne version of Collegiate Gothic to a professor. complement the existing surroundings. On top of the gable over the west entry to Goodbody 9 Chemistry Building is a creature resembling a duck wearing a mortarboard. Note the alchemical and elemental symbols that adorn the walls. Find the “sweetheart tree,” so named for the 7 Ballantine Hall carvings in its bark, growing within the walls. The largest classroom building on campus, in unadorned Modern style, is named after Elisha Beneath the grassy courtyard are classrooms and Ballantine, a former professor and vice president at IU. offices of Simon Hall. It has marble flooring on the ground and first floors and At this point you may continue north to pick up the Big travertine in the second-and third-floor lobbies. Union Tour or west to the Old Crescent Tour. to Big Union tour Can you translate VERITAS FILIA TEMPORIS? 7 to Old Crescent tour 9 IndianaAvenue 24 “Evil spirits cannot 21 1 enter an inhabited 8 house unless invited.” 23 —Sir Walter Scott Spot the 5 genetic models ade. on the faç 6 3 Third Street 4 5 Ever see a monkey Third Street dinner bell? S.Woodlawn Avenue Indiana Avenue S. Hawthorne Drive tour 1 Indiana Memorial Union This is the largest student union building in the world Big Union under a single roof. Have brunch, buy a book, catch a movie, get your computer repaired, do your banking, or go bowling, all right here. From the parking lot enter the Union on the hotel lobby side, continue up the stairs on your left (elevators are available). Head west, then turn right down the stairs and cross the Turn left through the lounge area, then left again, toward the Jordan River bridge. Tree Suites meeting rooms. Exit the building to your right, 2 Dunn Meadow through the Sunken Garden. On a warm day, this popular gathering place is a mecca for concerts and sunbathing students, or a good spot for a picnic by the Jordan River. Woodlawn Avenue to Tenth Street tour 3 to O the Beaten Path tour Seventh Street Seventh Street 4 10 13 12 2 Alumni Hall was one of the rst parts of the Union built in 1932. Jordan River Indiana Avenue Indiana 11 E. Kirkwood Avenue to Discovery tour tour 3 Hutton Honors College 6 Beck Chapel Officially dedicated in 2009, it is a permanent home The nondenominational chapel is a popular setting for Big Union for honors students.