List of Northwestern University buildings

The list of Northwestern University buildings encompasses the two main campuses of Northwestern University, located in Evanston, Illinois and Chicago, Illinois. The Evanston site contains approximately 150 buildings on its campus. The downtown Chicago campus, of approximately 25 acres, is home to the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Northwestern University also has an 11-acre campus in Education City, a satellite campus complex in Doha, Qatar.

Evanston campus

's original Evanston, Illinois campus, located just north of Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan, can be traced to 1851, one year after the institution's founding. The campus still hosts the majority of Northwestern's undergraduate programs, as well as several of its graduate and professional schools. Unlike many prestigious universities of the time, whose campuses were iteratively master-planned, buildings on the Evanston Campus range heavily in both architectural style and date, due in part to the university's historically fluctuating finances. The earliest buildings are of Victorian, Gothic-adjacent, Neoclassical, and Renaissance-Revival styles. Numerous buildings on the Evanston campus constructed from the early to mid-twentieth century, including lecture halls, student residences, and the university's flagship library, were commissioned in the Collegiate Gothic style by notable American campus architect James Gamble Rogers. In the postwar period, numerous brutalist projects were undertaken, including an expansion of the main library by Walter Netsch. Many of these buildings are located on the Northwestern University Lakefill, a 1964 landfill extension of Northwestern's campus into Lake Michigan. As the university's first and primary campus, Evanston has seen major development in the past decade, including the construction of major new projects for its Music, Business, and Athletic programs designed by leading architecture firms.

Academic buildings and lecture halls

Libraries

Performing arts

Science and research buildings

Religious buildings

Athletic buildings

Administrative and other student buildings

Residences

Other buildings

Listed alphabetically by address

1808 Chicago Avenue
1810-12 Chicago Avenue, department of anthropology, department of sociology
1815 Chicago Avenue
405 Church Street, College Preparation Program
515 Clark Street
555 Clark Street, Cook Family Writing Program, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences Program, Center for the Writing Arts, various student financial offices
619 Clark Street, various financial offices
625 Colfax Street
629 Colfax Street, Office of Global Safety and Security
617 Dartmouth Place, Center for Talent Development
627 Dartmouth Place, Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching
630 Dartmouth Place, International Office
1201 Davis Street, various alumni and development offices, University Police
619 Emerson Street, Holocaust Educational Foundation, Office of Undergraduate Studies and Advising
633 Emerson Street, Student Health Services
618 Garrett Place, Master of Science in Education
625 Haven Street
617 Haven Street, Naval ROTC
600 Haven Street, New Student and Family Programs
1801 Hinman Avenue, Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid, Veterans Office
1810 Hinman Avenue, Department of Anthropology
1812 Hinman Avenue
1813 Hinman Avenue, Center for Civic Engagement, Center for Leadership, Chicago Field Studies Program
1819 Hinman Avenue, Program of Asian American Studies
1835 Hinman Avenue, Dining hall
617 Library Place, Writing Place
618 Library Place, Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, The Family Institute
620 Library Place, Program of African Studies, Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa
626 Library Place
620 Lincoln Street, Legal Studies Program
630 Lincoln Street, Northwestern Career Advancement and SafeRide
640 Lincoln Street, Art Theory and Practice Department
1801 Maple Avenue, Media Management Center, NU in Qatar Support Office, Traffic Safety School
616 Noyes Street, Integrated Science Program
617 Noyes Street, National High School Institute
625 Noyes Street
629 Noyes Street, Northwestern University Press
1840 Oak Ave, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
1603 Orrington Ave, Office of Compliance, Audit and Advisory Service
2020 Ridge Avenue, various administrative offices
1902 Sheridan Road, Equality Development and Globalization Studies, Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Center for International and Comparative Studies, Center for Technology Innovation Management
1908 Sheridan Road, Office of Undergraduate Studies and Advising
1914 Sheridan Road, African American Student Affairs
1918 Sheridan Road, Dean's Office for the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
1922 Sheridan Road, Office of Undergraduate Studies and Advising
1936 Sheridan Road, Multicultural Center, Multicultural Student Affairs, University Academic Advisory Center, Asian/Asian American Student Affairs
1940 Sheridan Road, Office of Fellowships & the University Academic Advising Center
2000 Sheridan Road
2006 Sheridan Road, Statistics Department
2010 Sheridan Road, Programs for Asian Studies, International Studies, International and Area Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Harvey Kapnick Center for Business Institutions
2016 Sheridan Road, Department of Linguistics
2040 Sheridan Road, Institute for Policy Research
2046 Sheridan Road
2122 Sheridan Road, various residential services
1800 Sherman Avenue, Innovation and New Ventures Office, Art History Department, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of German, Global Health Studies Program, Middle East and North African Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures
720 University Place, Human Resources Department, Payroll
Chicago campus

Northwestern's Downtown Chicago campus of approximately dates to 1921 where the university purchased 9 original acres for its medical, dental, law, and business schools. The Chicago Campus, with a small assortment of gothic revival buildings, is notable for containing the first instances of academic skyscrapers in the world. Located on land in the Streeterville neighborhood on the city's Near North Side, the secondary campus is home to the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern University School of Law.

Pritzker School of Law

Building	Image	Opened	Location	Notes
Abbott Hall		1940	710 N. Lake Shore Drive	Houses various administrative services for the School of Law. Abbott Hall served as a Naval Reserve Midshipman's School during the World War II era and operated as a student dormitory in a period following 1945. When built at a cost of $1.75 million to house more than 800 residents, the 20-story building was then believed to be the tallest structure in the world used exclusively as a college dormitory.
Levy Mayer Hall		1927	357 E. Chicago Avenue	The smallest of three original James Gamble Rogers buildings constructed for the Northwestern's new Chicago campus in the Collegiate Gothic style. The structure consists of a series of collegiate gothic classrooms surrounding an internal courtyard landscaped with grass, trees, shrubbery and ivy. Houses the Bluhm Legal Clinic, Master of Science in Law Program, Pritzker Legal Research Center, Registrar.
Robert McCormick Hall		1959	350 E. Superior Street	A three-story, L-shaped gothic building named for Colonel McCormick, a member of Northwestern's Class of 1907 and the famed editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune. Along with law classrooms, houses the Office of Student Services for the Chicago campus.
Arthur Rubloff Building		1984	375 E. Chicago Avenue	Houses the Bluhm Legal Clinic, Office of Admissions, Pritzker Legal Research Center, and Thorne Auditorium. The modernist lakefront tower adjoins James Gamble Rogers's Levy Mayer Hall and sits immediately west of Lake Shore Drive.

Kellogg School of Management

Building	Image	Opened	Location	Notes
Wieboldt Hall		1926	340 E. Superior Street	Designed by James Gamble Rogers in the Gothic Revival-style as one of the original buildings at Northwestern's streeterville campus. The 7-story building was given Landmark Status by the Chicago City Council in 2014 for representing "significant examples of work by a nationally prominent architect." Wiedboldt Hall was named for William Wieboldt, the wealthy owner of a chain of department stores operating out of Sheboygan and Chicago's Northwest Side in Wicker Park and is today home to the Chicago facilities of the Kellogg School of Management and the School of Continuing Studies.

Feinberg School of Medicine

Patient care and research

Building	Image	Opened	Location	Notes
Ward Memorial Building		1926	303 E. Chicago Avenue	A prominent skyscraper and the largest of three buildings designed for the Chicago campus by James Gamble Rogers in the Gothic Revival-style. The Ward Memorial Building, named for the famous national department store enterprise of its namesake Chicago salesman Aaron Montgomery Ward, was the first "academic skyscraper" to ever have been constructed by a university. Alongside other Gamble Rogers buildings at the Chicago campus, the 20-story Ward Building was given Landmark Status by the Chicago City Council in 2014 for its unique style amongst other skyscrapers and relevant historical significance. It houses comprehensive medical education facilities and in 2019 opened the Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center.
Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center		2005	303 E. Superior Street	12-story building with research labs and an auditorium. The medical research center is part of a major donation from the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Foundation.
Searle Medical Research Building		1965	320 E. Superior Street	A mid-century modernist tower housing the departments of Nephrology/Hypertension, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience, the School of Medicine's Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, and its Center for Microbiology-Immunology and academic press. Alongside multiple buildings on Northwestern's Evanston Campus, the Searle Medical Research Building is named for Francis Searle.
Morton Medical Research Building		1955	310 E. Superior Street	A more contemporary Gothic Revival skyscraper with modernist elements adjacent to the Ward Memorial Building. Houses the Feinberg School of Medicine's Medical Scientist Training Program and the Department of Physiology.
Tarry Building		1990	300 E. Superior Street	17-story building with additional research and education space for basic science, clinical research, teaching, and support services.