Art Building

The Art Building is an academic hall at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, United States. Built in 1905 for the Willamette University College of Medicine, it is the third oldest building on campus after Waller Hall and Gatke Hall. The Beaux-Arts style red-brick building stands three-stories tall and contains 14,000 square feet (1,300 m) of space. In 1905, Willamette University opened the Medical Building as the first permanent home for the College of Medicine. The medical school, the first in the Northwest, merged with the University of Oregon’s medical school (now Oregon Health & Science University) in Portland in 1913 and vacated the building. That year the law school moved into the now Science Hall, which was the first regular...