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n 1895, the land that now houses Northwest Christian University looked very different. If you compared aerial shots of campus at the start of each decade of the last 125 years, there would be additions and subtractions to the physical campus in nearly every shot. The first building to house the Eugene Divinity School was Rehm Hall, built on the north side of 12th Avenue in 1897. It was followed by the Goodrich Administration building which was dedicated with the newly named Eugene Bible University in October 1908. The Lottie Price Music Building was soon to follow in 1921.
For many decades, students lived in boarding houses and former fraternities along Alder Street and 11th Avenue. Starting in 1945 with Hoven House, many alumni fondly remember their years in places like Haskell, Crusader, Covenant, Hanby and Harmon houses. Some of these houses also were used for faculty offices and other university spaces thorough the early 2000s. For recent alumni and students, Burke-Griffeth has always housed students along with the cafeteria and banquet room, but for students in the late '50s and early '60s, it was a brand new state of the art women’s residence hall when Burke Hall opened in 1951 and Griffeth was added in 1963. For nearly 20 years, NCC men lived in Marion Hall, just down 11th Avenue. Each of our buildings, past and present has a story and each story points back to the faithfulness of God and strategic mission of Northwest Christian University. From 1921 to 1956 the Klinger Gymnasium sat where our Kellenberger library now stands. For many years NCC athletics teams practiced and competed in facilities throughout the Eugene community until the Morse Event Center was built in 2005 as an answer to decades of prayer. The footprint of
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