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The Blue Wall as a Bar
While many students shuffle in and out of UMass’ Blue Wall each day, few are aware that the modest cafeteria was once one of the wildest and most…
Five College Radio Astronomy Tower
The Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory was founded in 1969 by the Five College Astronomy Department. The observatory was located on a peninsula by the Quabbin Reservoir in the town of New Salem, Massachusetts. It was constructed under the…
Waiting Station
Arthur Sharp, University of Massachusetts graduate, designed a waiting station which serviced people in transit for over one hundred years. Completed in 1911 as the Massachusetts Agricultural College trolley station and shelter, the one-story…
Goodell Hall as a Library
The University of Massachusetts has long been an institution striving toward growth and expansion, transforming from a modest agrarian college into a large, modern, and bustling campus. This spirit of growth and change is exemplified by the story of…
UMass's First Women's Athletic Fields
The first female athletic fields to be built at Massachusetts State College were constructed in 1936. The fields stood behind Goessmann Hall, the building visible on the left of the image. Draper Hall is visible on the right of this image, and…
Fernald Hall Zoological Museum
In 1886, the administration of the Massachussetts Agricultural College (MAC) appointed Dr. Charles Henry Fernald, one of the most distinguished experts in entomology and zoology, as a professor of zoology and lecturer in the Veterinary Sciences…
Draper as a Dining Hall
Constructed in 1903, Draper Hall has been in existence for over one hundred years. In its first years, Draper Hall was home to the university's only dining hall. Located at a far more convenient portion of campus in relation to the other dining halls…
Old Chapel as a library
Few knowledge seekers could visit the DuBois Library without also observing the picturesque Old Chapel, which once functioned as the university’s library, quietly situated below the looming tower’s rise. Disproportionately large, the DuBois library…
Federal Circle
Federal Circle, along with Commonwealth Circle, was an area developed at the university directly after the Second World War to accommodate veteran students and their families. It was located along Lincoln Avenue, on the site of the former R.O.T.C.…
Marshall Annex
The Marshall Annex was an ever-changing fixture of the UMass campus for many years before it was eventually demolished in 2006. Originally, the building stood as a barracks building at Westover Field, an Air Force base in Chicopee, Massachusetts. The…
Fort Devens
Fort Devens was established in 1917 in Avery, Massachusetts as an army base. The base later served as a demobilization center for New England troops; after World War II, the fort was converted into a temporary campus for the University of…