ASU rephotographed: A look at Tempe campus then and now
This aerial view shows ASU's Tempe campus around the mid 1960s. The complex that houses the Herberger Institute of Design has not been built, nor have the Stauffer buildings.
An aerial view of the Tempe campus in 2008.
A view of Old Main and Kachina Fountain at the time of the Territorial Normal School. Dedicated in 1898, it was the first building of what would become Arizona State University.
Old Main, Kachina Fountain and the Alumni Lawn in 2011. The building was refurbished and renovated for ASU's Centennial, and a façade that had hidden the front stairs and balconies was removed. Restored to it's former appearance, Old Main was rededicated in 2000.
ASU's Goodwin Stadium, in 1936. Named for Garfield Goodwin, a former Tempe mayor, member of the State Teachers College Board of Education and receiver on the 1899 Tempe Normal School football team. The last football game was played there in 1958. The facility also housed a men's dormitory on the east side, which was razed in 1978. The west side was taken down in 1976.
The Apache Parking Structure now occupies the site of Goodwin Stadium.
A view of Sun Devil Stadium in 1970. The facility has been upgraded four times since its construction in 1958 and now holds 75,000 people. The stadium was the original home of the Fiesta Bowl and now hosts the Insight Bowl. The NFL Arizona Cardinals and USFL Arizona Wranglers/Outlaws have also made the stadium their home.
Here, Sun Devil Stadium is seen in its current configuration. Pope John Paul II held mass in the stadium during his visit to the Valley of the Sun in 1987. Both U2 and the Rolling Stones have performed at Sun Devil. The 1996 NFL Super Bowl was also played here.
ASU's Moeur Building, named for former Arizona governor Benjamin Moeur. The building was built in 1939 by the Works Project Administration and is the only adobe building on campus.
Today, the exterior of the Moeur Building looks much the same as when it was finished. The facility is now home to the Mars Space Flight Facility, where ASU scientists and researchers in the School of Earth and Space Exploration investigate the geology and mineralogy of the red planet.
Discovery Hall was built in 1948 and originally was home to the science department. After the construction of the Bateman Physical Sciences Center, the building then housed the agriculture department for many years.
Now Discovery Hall is home to the American Indian Studies, American Indian Policy Center and the American Indian Student Support Services, as well as academic units of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
ASU's Memorial Union, circa 1960. Arizona State University had a registration of about 18,000 when this photo was taken.
Cady Mall and Cady Fountain have replaced city streets in front of the Memorial Union. Both were named for Gilbert L. Cady, former vice president for business affairs, who served ASU from 1957 to 1975.
Photographed not long after its completion in 1966, Hayden Library is named for Charles Trumbull Hayden, founder of Tempe and the first president of the board of the Arizona Territorial Normal School.
In 1989, an expansion of Hayden Library led to the entrance being moved from the mall level to the Hayden Lawn area.
The building which now houses the Lyceum Theatre was built in 1917 and served as the school’s central heating plant for two decades. The Works Projects Administration converted the boiler room into a small reception area with a stage and hardwood floors in 1939. The building was used for dinners, faculty receptions, and fraternity and sorority dances.
When a remodeling of the Matthews Library was completed in 1951, the president’s and vice president’s offices and placement services occupied the building’s lounge area. In 1964, the building became the Lyceum Theater. It underwent a major remodel and addition in 1993.
Payne Training School served as a facility for the College of Education and during the 1970s part of it was the design studios for the School of Architecture. The building was eventually torn down to make room for the Nelson Fine Arts Center.
Built in 1989, the Nelson Fine Arts Center honors J. Russell Nelson, ASU president from 1981 to 1989, and his wife, Bonita. The design, by architect Antoine Predock, won the 1989 American Institute of Architects Honor Award.