Butler University Buildings and Grounds Digital CollectionThe Butler University Buildings and Grounds Collection includes texts and documents, photos and visual images, and architectural plans that document the history of historical and current Butler University campuses and their buildings. Content is continuously being added to the digital collection online with descriptive metadata (information about the image). Content includes numerous buildings during construction, remodeling, and various other states of being; aerial photography of campus, illustrations, and architectural plans.
Collection Description: "The Butler University Buildings and Grounds Collection includes text materials (correspondence, documents, ephemera, publications), images (illustrations, photographs), and architectural plans relating to buildings and grounds owned by, used by, or associated with Butler University, circa 1855–present.
These buildings and grounds were or are associated with one of Butler University’s historical—and present—campuses, including its first location at College Avenue on the near-north side of Indianapolis from circa 1855–1878 (13th Street and College Avenue), its second in the small town of Irvington just east of Indianapolis from 1878–1928 (approximately Emerson Avenue, Butler Avenue, and two railroads), and its current campus on the northwest side of Indianapolis (approximately Hampton Drive, Sunset Avenue, 52nd Street, and the Central Canal).
The materials in this collection were collected and compiled by the Butler University Special Collections and University Archives and include secondary and primary sources including research files, correspondence on building construction and dedication planning, ephemera related to building ceremonies and events, building specification documents, preliminary campus plans and surveys, photographs and depictions of construction and changes to buildings over time, and select architectural plans."
