Morrill Hall (Christian Petersen Art Museum)
Introduction
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Morrill Hall, now the Christian Petersen Art Museum
Morrill Hall as it looked early on
Backstory and Context
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The building was finished in 1891 and originally housed a museum, library, chapel, lecture rooms, laboratories and other scientific rooms, armory, and several other rooms. The chapel also served as an assembly hall. A barber shop was installed in 1905 but was later removed a few years later. The Agriculture Extension offices moved in and the library moved out in 1914. The building was used for a variety of purposes during the next decades; the music school had its offices and classrooms there for a time. In 1996 the building was deemed unsafe but the university renovated it in 2007 to become the Christian Petersen Art Museum, named after the late faculty member Christian Petersen who was the nation's first artist-in-residence at a university.