{"id":425,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries-5\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:17:53","slug":"northhall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/past\/northhall\/","title":{"rendered":"North Hall Summer 1882 &#8211; 1901"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"historynav\">The Emerging University Library \u2013 1855-1951 <a href=\"\/history\/past\/oldcapitol\">previous<\/a> | <a href=\"\/history\/past\/fire\/\">next<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"history_column_left\">\n<p>The second floor of North Hall had served as a chapel, and when the library moved in during the summer of 1882, the chapel room had to be divided; the north half given over to the library stacks, while the south half served as a combined reading room and chapel. Eventually the stained glass window was replaced with clear class to improve the lighting.\u00a0 Ada North and Joseph Rich had made repeated requests in their annual reports to the Regents that the building was unsafe, and that a fireproof library building was needed.<\/p>\n<p>Librarians:<br \/>\nBertha G. Ridgway<br \/>\nJoseph W. Rich<br \/>\nAda N. North<\/p>\n<p>Additional North Hall images are available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/\">Iowa Digital Library<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/ictcs\">Iowa City Town and Campus Scenes collection<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/search\/collection\/ictcs\/searchterm\/North%20Hall%201866%20(On%20Pentacrest)\/field\/folder\/mode\/exact\/conn\/and\/cosuppress\/North+Hall+1866++On+Pentacrest+\">North Hall 1866 (On Pentacrest)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/search\/collection\/ictcs\/searchterm\/North%20Hall\/field\/folder\/mode\/exact\/conn\/and\/cosuppress\/North+Hall\">North Hall<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"history_column_right\">\n<div style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/northhall-before1894.jpg\" alt=\"North Hall before fire\" width=\"332\" height=\"270\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before 1897<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/northhall-1896.jpg\" alt=\"North Hall Interior\" width=\"375\" height=\"270\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1896<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/northhall.jpg\" alt=\"North Hall \" width=\"380\" height=\"270\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before 1897<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emerging University Library \u2013 1855-1951 previous | next The second floor of North Hall had served as a chapel, and when the library moved in during the summer of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":416,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-default.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/425\/revisions\/1033"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}