The University of Connecticut Archives as well as Special Collections maintains an interesting blog. One of their posts from before this twelvemonth caught my attending this morning. The "Augustus Storrs Hall" postal service alongside the edifice honoring the mortal who donated province for an agricultural college inward 1880. Augustus Storrs Hall was built inward 1906 as well as was the get-go brick edifice on campus. It was initially a men’s dormitory alongside 66 two-man rooms merely inside 2 years each room held 3 students. In 1952 it was renovated for offices as well as classrooms. It is straight off habitation to the School of Nursing.
UConn was founded every bit Storrs Agricultural School inward 1881. The advert changed to Storrs Agricultural College 1893, to Connecticut Agricultural College inward 1899, to Connecticut State College inward 1933, as well as lastly to the University of Connecticut inward 1939.
A sampling of other to a greater extent than recent posts includes: "Brien McMahon Hall" as well as "Alfred Gordon Gulley Hall."
College as well as academy archives are a bang-up source of ideas as well as information for those researching history of institutions. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 publish likewise actively postal service images as well as links to historical information. I hold a Twitter list, "Archives as well as Spec Coll," for those who powerfulness live interested as well as volition relish whatever suggestions if you lot know of archives or exceptional collections alongside Twitter accounts. It alone takes a few minutes to scan recent posts using the list.
