Schaeffer Hall

In October 1897, the Board of Regents announced a competition for the design of the new Collegiate Building. Instructions to the architects specified that the building must be fireproof and must cost no more than $150,000 but otherwise gave wide latitude in matters of design.

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Photographs used on this webpage were provided by the Kent Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Iowa Libraries.