NAU Campus: North and New

 

This is the Old Main Building on NAU north campus. It has the historic office of the dean in it. 

  
       Walking through the North Campus of Nau provides a great insight into the history of the school, and for me I have had classes or errands to do in many of these building so it was really interesting to learn about their individual histories. Plus North Campus is beautiful to walk around in; first off, I noticed the direction of North Campus, all the building are directed to Old Main, except the 1899 Grill place which if facing north toward the town, even that used to have a courtyard that was a third space facing the center of the circle. There is a big traffic round about through the center, and lots of sidewalks through out the buildings.  There is lots of big trees and open spaces, the buildings are very grand and Victorian and it is apparent that even in the modern additions the brick color and symmetry of the building was preserved.

This is the main entrance to the old Main Building

This is the main entrance to the Old Main building, one thing I did notice about this entrance way was that the steps were dark polished granite, they didn't seem to fit in with the rest of the architecture so I think they were probably replaced when the less hard sandstone eroded from use.

This is an example of a biforate window on campus. This one is found in the old Gammage Library now used for the financial aid and bursars office.

I really like the design of this building, outside of the picture frame the leaf pattern around the doorway continues into an arch and the ashlar is stratified with rustication around and up. I also really like how this building is smaller than some of the others but is very solid, and pretty. 

To conclude this blog, I really like how the history of North campus has been preserved despite modern enhancements. The inside of the building has been re done and are very nice, it is important that the original architecture of North Campus is maintained because it is so important to the history of the university.