Just like the seasons, Michigan Tech’s campus has a way of evolving over time. As enrollment, technology, and campus needs shift, so does the architecture that makes campus function. This fall image from 1962, found in the Archives postcard collection, shows a view that’s quite different from what you’d see today.
Can you name this building and spot the differences between 1962 and 2024? We’d love to hear your thoughts—let us know in the comments!
Looks familiar – about like when I arrived in fall of 1964. Then came an addition to our dorm, new library, coed dorm, and Fort Smith – the (then) new admin building.
I remember it as Sperr Hall. I believe that’s Hubbell Hall in the background. Had many classes there.
The building is Sperr Hall, home of the Mining Department. Head of the Department was Walfred Been. The tower was used to practice our surveying techniques in vertical mine shafts. The “problem being practiced” was the transfer of surface geographical information to the underground mine. I was one of the 1962 graduates. My name is Fred Edwards.
I was able to continue working in the mining industry from 1962 to 2018. At the end of my career I have worked on over 300 projects in 35 countries. Never regretted a day of it.
I think that’s Speer (sp?) Hall. Never had a class there, but did spend a lot of time in Koenig next to it.
McNair Hall, where ME-EM and Chem buildings are now
Sperr Hall, where the Mining Engineering Department was located.
Great photo. I returned to campus for the most recent all-class reunion in 2023, and was amazed at the new buildings, expecially the R.L. Smith Mechanical andEngineering Building. A Meta;;urgy Grad, B.S. ’63, M.S. ’64, he personally arranged for me to enroll in the PhD program at the University of Illinois, where I earned my PhD in Metallurgy and Physics in 1968.
Lester Hendrickson
Professor Emeritus
Arizona State University.
My first thought was Hubbell Hall, possibly, because it had the ivy. Hubbell was there only for my freshman year. It had been demolished, when I returned the fall of ’68. During that school year also, US-41 was being relocated. So many changes, a second high-rise building would soon be constructed.
Glad to have been the editor of the LODE during that year