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To make room for newer residence halls, the housing department began tearing down older residence halls and buildings. The Illini Orange, a mailroom, snack bar, and bus stop, and the Peabody and Gregory Drive dining halls were demolished in 2008 to make room for the new Student Dining and Residential Programs Building (SDRP), which opened in 2010.
The Women's Residence Hall was the first residence hall on the university's campus; the all-female dormitory filled a need for women's housing at the university, which had been privately maintained and in short supply. The hall quickly filled up, and the West Residence Hall was built to provide additional space for female students.
Altgeld Hall, located at 1409 West Green Street in Urbana, Illinois on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) campus, was built in 1896–97 and was designed by Nathan Ricker and James M. White of the university's architecture department in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library is one of the largest public academic libraries in the United States, "more than thirteen million volumes and 24 million items and materials in all formats, languages, and subjects, including 9 million microforms, 120,000 serials, 148,000 audio-recordings, over 930,000 audiovisual materials ...
Alpha Phi Fraternity House-Beta Alpha Chapter (Champaign, Illinois) Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity House (Champaign, Illinois) Alpha Xi Delta Sorority Chapter House (Champaign, Illinois) Altgeld Chimes; Altgeld Hall; Astronomical Observatory (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Atkins Tennis Center
In 2005, the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois placed Lincoln Hall on its yearly Ten Most Endangered list. In July 2009, Governor Pat Quinn approved $60.3 million for the renovation of Lincoln Hall. The University of Illinois pledged to pay $6 million for the renovation. The plan brought the building up to the contemporary building code.
The second floor is also home to a 200-person lecture room. The third floor of the hall houses another additional 47 practice rooms. [2] Smith Memorial Hall also boasts a 900-person recital room lined with detailed mahogany woodwork throughout. This recital hall is where the three manual Casavant Frères organ is located. [7]
When the campus closed, its library's 25,000 volumes became the core collection of a new Undergraduate Library at the Urbana-Champaign campus. Originally housed in rooms 123 and 101 in the Main Library, the facility outgrew its space by 1963. A new, separate building for the Undergraduate Library was completed 1969. [7]