  {"id":312,"date":"2019-09-25T20:11:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T20:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/150\/?p=312"},"modified":"2021-09-17T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T18:50:09","slug":"on-this-spot-a-historical-view-of-augsburg-through-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/150\/2019\/09\/25\/on-this-spot-a-historical-view-of-augsburg-through-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Spot: A Historical View of Augsburg Through the Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-315 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/150\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-18-at-12.24.12-AM-2-1-187x300.png\" alt=\"Banner hanging on side of building\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" \/>Looking through windows\u2014and sometimes full-scale building scrims\u2014throughout campus, we see how our landscape, architecture and people have changed in the last 150 years.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a guide to what you&#8217;ll see around campus:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Locations and content for the window clings:<\/strong><br \/>\nUrnMort Lobby: All-school photo, 1931<br \/>\nCaribou\/Einstein&#8217;s: Murphy Square, around 1905 (Minnesota Historical Society)<br \/>\nSverdrup Atrium, left side: Quad and Christensen Center, 1970s<br \/>\nSverdrup Atrium, right side: Quad and Christensen Center, 1970s<br \/>\nSverdrup\/Library Skyway, closer to Sverdrup: Original Main Building, 1875<br \/>\nSverdrup\/Library Skyway, closer to Library: Foss Center, 1993<br \/>\nOGC Skyway, left side when leaving library: Campus Aerial, 1992<br \/>\nOGC Skyway, right side when leaving library: Campus Aerial, 1975<br \/>\nMusic\/Memorial Hall Skyway: Morton Hall, around 1920<br \/>\nAnderson Music Atrium, to the right when facing the doors: Choir tour, 1980<br \/>\nAnderson Music Atrium, to the left when facing the doors: Murphy Square, 1970s<br \/>\nUrness Skyway, closest to Christensen Center: Murphy Square and campus, 1920s<br \/>\nUrness Skyway, middle: Murphy Square, 1950s<br \/>\nUrness Skyway, closest to Urness: Murphy Square, about 1970<\/p>\n<p><strong>Locations and content for the building scrims:<\/strong><br \/>\nChristensen Center facing Murphy Square<br \/>\nMorton Hall: Built in 1888, this duplex was a faculty residence until the early 1920s, when it became a women\u2019s dorm. It was named Morton Hall in 1932, in honor of Augsburg\u2019s Dean of Women, Gerda Mortensen. Demolished in 1959, the fa\u00e7ade\u2019s terracotta face was saved and is now in the Christensen Center entrance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sverdrup Hall, facing library and Hagfors<\/strong><br \/>\nOriginal Main: Augsburg\u2019s original main building in Minneapolis opened September 15, 1872. Within three years, it was expanded to include a large central section and a smaller wing (identical to this one) at the east end. At first, everything happened in this building: classes, chapel, library, dining, and residence space for students, faculty, and their families. After Old Main opened in 1902, this building became a student residence and dining hall. This oldest section was demolished in 1948 to make room for the Science Hall, and the rest of the building came down in 1949 to create space for Sverdrup Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking through windows\u2014and sometimes full-scale building scrims\u2014throughout campus, we see how our landscape, architecture and people have changed in the last 150 years. Here&#8217;s a guide to what you&#8217;ll see around campus: Locations and content for the window clings: UrnMort Lobby: All-school photo, 1931 Caribou\/Einstein&#8217;s: Murphy Square, around 1905 (Minnesota Historical Society) Sverdrup Atrium, left &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}