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The buildings, landmarks, venues and academic units of UCLA often
bear the names of individuals. On these pages, you'll find the stories
of the people behind the names: faculty members, alumni, donors
and other prominent individuals.
Original Buildings
UCLA began in 1919 on Vermont Avenue, at the site now occupied by
Los Angeles City College. In 1927, construction started on the Westwood
campus. There were four buildings completed when the campus opened
in 1929.
The original buildings were designed to give the new campus a distinctive
architectural style, based on buildings in northern Italy. All feature
warm Mediterranean coloring - Royce Hall's exterior has 19 colors
of brick - and rounded Roman arches.
Only Royce Hall has borne the same name since the campus opened.
Other buildings had generic names until later in their history.
Haines Hall
Originally known as the chemistry building, Haines Hall is named
for Charles Grove Haines. A political scientist who served on the
faculty from 1925 until his death in 1948, Haines was an outstanding
authority on the American judiciary and the author of six volumes
outlining U.S. Supreme Court proceedings.
Powell Library
Lawrence Clark Powell, who served on the Library staff from 1938
to 1961, became University Librarian in 1944. He was the first dean
of the School of Library Services, which he organized in 1960. ("Library
Services" has evolved into Information Studies, now part of
the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.)
Powell is credited with increasing both the quantity and quality
of the UCLA Library's holdings. During his tenure the library opened
multiple locations across campus.
Royce Hall
Josiah Royce, a California-born philosopher, received his bachelor's
degree from the then-new University of California at Berkeley in
1875. He taught at the Berkeley campus for four years after earning
his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He went to Harvard University
in 1882 as a sabbatical replacement for William James. A few years
later he became a regular member of the faculty and taught at Harvard
until his death in 1916.
Royce published 13 books and 200 articles and reviews and was considered
one of the great philosophical thinkers of his time. He was also
personally known to members of the early UCLA faculty. Ernest Carroll
Moore, first chief executive of UCLA, had been a colleague of Royce
at Harvard. Charles Rieber, UCLA's first dean of the College of
Letters and Science, had been a graduate student under Royce.
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