Knight Library


University of Oregon Library and Memorial Quadrangle
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Detail of north facade.
Location	Eugene, Oregon
Coordinates	44°02′36″N 123°04′40″W / 44.04325°N 123.0777°W / 44.04325; -123.0777Coordinates: 44°02′36″N 123°04′40″W / 44.04325°N 123.0777°W / 44.04325; -123.0777^[1]
Built	1937
Architect	Ellis F. Lawrence
Architectural style	Lombardic Romanesque, Art Deco
NRHP Reference #	90000370
Added to NRHP	1990

Knight Library is the main facility of the University of Oregon's (UO) library system. It is located on the university's campus in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The library design is emblematic of the architecture of the university's older buildings, and it serves as a hub of student activity. As of 2008 it has a collection of more than 3 million volumes. ^[2] The library is also a depository for the Federal Depository Library Program.^[3]

Construction and history

The building was opened in 1937 to replace the original library building (the "Old Libe," Fenton Hall, completed in 1907), which the University's collections had outgrown. Construction of the library was financed as a Depression-era Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, spearheaded by Oregon senator Frederick Steiwer and took more than two years to complete. "The New Libe" as the Oregon Daily Emerald student newspaper had christened the building, was designed by Ellis F. Lawrence of the Oregon-based architectural firm Lawrence, Holford, and Allyn. Lawrence was also a driving force in much of the core architecture of the UO campus and was the first Dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts. The rich architecture of the building reflects an Art Deco aesthetic with "modernized Lombardy and Greco-Roman" elements as well as many integrated artistic embellishments including "the fifteen stone heads by Edna Dunberg and Louise Utter Pritchard, ornamental memorial gates by O. B. Dawson, carved wooden panels by Arthur Clough, and two large murals painted by Albert and Arthur Runquist."^[4]

Three major renovations of the library, in 1950, 1966, and 1994, have kept the building up-to-date and it is a daily hub of learning and research to University of Oregon's more than 20,000 students. 1994's $27 million renovation added 132,000 square feet (12,000 m²) to the building. The project was partially funded by Phil Knight, UO alumnus and cofounder of athletic shoe company Nike. The library was renamed Knight Library in honor of Knight's family.

Inscriptions

The original 1937 section of the library, designed by Lawrence, contains inscriptions along the tops of each of seven large windows on the main (north) facade. These read, "Philosophia," "Historia," "Religio," "Ars," "Natura," "Societas," and "Litterae," and are meant to represent (in Latin), the seven major disciplines contained in the library's collection.

Above the main entry doors (also on the north facade), is a passage from the Bible (John 8:32), which proclaims, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

National Register of Historic Places

The University of Oregon Library and Memorial Quadrangle, which consists of the library and the quadrangle that spans from the north facade of the library to 13th Avenue, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The quadrangle was part of E. F. Lawrence's design for the UO campus, and is bordered by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and Chapman Hall on the east, and Prince Lucien Campbell Hall and Condon Hall on the west.^[5] The landscaping of the quad includes eight English oak trees planted in 1940.^[6]

Images

West side of the Library, showing all three main phases of construction
Detail of the inscription over the east door
Detail of the inscription over the west door
Plaque dedicating walks of the quadrangle to war veterans
View of the quad looking south toward the library
View of the quad looking north toward 13th Ave.

References

↑ "Map of Campus". Retrieved 2008-11-18.
↑ "UO Libraries quick facts". University of Oregon. March 12, 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-01.
↑ "Oregon". Federal Library Directory. U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
↑ http://libweb.uoregon.edu/knight/history.html
↑ http://planning.uoregon.edu/projects/HLP_website/building%20surveys/Condon05_30_07.pdf
↑ http://uplan.uoregon.edu/projects/HLP_website/landscape%20surveys/Memorial%20Quad_06_12_07.pdf

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