When was byu built

It housed all school departments of the College of Family Living, the School of Nursing and the department of Sociology and Psychology. Smith Building. The Deseret Towers were constructed in the early s to meet the growing demand for student housing. The towers were comprised of seven residence halls that were seven stories tall and had six stories of dormitory-style rooms. The towers were built using the lift-slab method where all the concrete floors and ceilings were poured on the ground, and hoisted into place by hydraulic jacks and secured.

Deseret Towers was home to tens of thousands of students, summer athletic campers and Especially For Youth participants. The Alumni House was dedicated May 25, It housed business offices of the BYU Alumni Association and served as a reception center for the nearly 80, alumni at the time. The building was also the location where the original Missionary Language Institute began. It provided classroom and office space for missionary training until June The Alumni House sat on the brow of the hill at the west edge of campus overlooking the Provo Valley.

Demolition on the 11,square-foot building began in May to make space for the Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center. The building was built to harmonize aesthetically with the surrounding Brimhall, Grant and Maeser Buildings. The work logs can be found on the first floor of the Harold B. Lee Library in Special Collections. The Joseph Smith Memorial Building was the third building to be built on the upper portion of campus.

It was the location of many religion classes, and the main auditorium served as a theater until the Harris Fine Arts Center was built. Commencement exercises, which had previously been held in the Provo Tabernacle, were relocated to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building after its completion in Located in its tower were chimes that sounded the hour.

The building was razed in to make way for the Benson Building after the new Joseph Smith Building had been built. Other structures were added on this block before the Maeser Building was built in on Temple Hill, where the BYU campus subsequently developed. A demonstration Training School and Brigham Young High School were discontinued in the s and the last university-related classes moved to the main campus shortly before Academy Square was sold in Three principals led the academy before it was renamed Brigham Young University in Warren Dusenberry conducted the first term.

Karl G. Maeser, a well-educated German convert to Mormonism taught the second, whose twenty-nine members included Senator-to-be Reed Smoot. Under Brigham Young's charge to teach nothing "without the spirit of God," Maeser directed the Academy from to , at which time about students were enrolled, some thirty of college age. Benjamin Cluff, Jr. Bachelor of Science , Bachelor of Arts and Master's degrees followed. Adoption of the university's name coincided with the school's designation as the teacher training agency for the LDS Church.

Since the church president has chaired the board of trustees, and since only church officers have served on the board. Preparing public school teachers has remained an important function of BYU, and most teachers in the church institutes and seminaries have received undergraduate or graduate training there.

The presidencies of George H. Brimhall and Franklin S. Harris witnessed the transformation of BYU from a school with 14 faculty and students only 74 in collegiate programs and in the high school level academy , to an accredited university with 2, college students in and a faculty of 27 with doctorates.

When World War II cut enrollment by two-thirds, the question of institutional viability was again raised by the trustees. The postwar influx of veterans under the presidency of Howard S. McDonald put this issue to rest, and the campus was soon dotted with converted war surplus buildings to accommodate an enrollment that reached 5, in To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy.

Known for everything from its football and dance teams to its animation department , groundbreaking research and religious education , Brigham Young University has made an impact not just in Utah, but around the world. The information has been revised and updated.

Brigham Young Academy moved to its present-day location on University Avenue in When the school originally opened in , it was located where downtown Provo is now. Roberts is generally credited with picking the cougar as the BYU mascot. Beards at BYU, however, have been a topic of discussion lately. The school recently clarified that the beard ban did not apply to men growing beards because of a medical condition, for religious reasons or for a theatrical performance.

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