Seminary Square campus about 1850 from a photogravure produced about 1890
Indiana University's first campus and three of the first five buildings. (L to R) Seminary Building (first classroom building), First College Building (first building constructed after Indiana Seminary became Indiana College), Laboratory (first laboratory building). The viewer is looking toward the northwest from near the southeast corner of the Seminary Square campus. The slope seen here is the same slope one drives down once one crosses over Second Street while heading south on College Avenue (in between Seminary Park and Kroger's). Note that these are three of the first five buildings on the old Seminary Square campus. The Professor's House (not seen here) was probably completed in 1824 before the Seminary Building. The Boarding House (also not seen here) was added on to the Professor's House in 1838. Thus, these are the first three academic buildings located at the old Seminary Square campus. The first known printing of this image appears on a tipped in page between pages 20 and 21 of Theophilus Wylie's "Indiana University, Its History from 1820, When Founded, to 1890..." (1890).
Burford, William B (as artist)
Seminary Building (1824 or 1825)
First College Building (1836)
Laboratory (1840)
Bloomington (Downtown & General Street Scenes)
other place name:
Seminary Square
Three of the First Five Buildings (and Marker)