The University of Wisconsin Campus - Science Hall
First Science Hall
Built 1875-77     Destroyed by Fire 1884


June 21, 1877 Science Hall opens. The 3-story, U-shaped Italianate sandstone and wood building on Park Street is the second purely instructional building on campus. When Old Science Hall burned, many departments lost irreplaceable scientific records, museum collections, libraries and equipment

Second Science Hall
550 N. Parks St.   Built 1887     Madison Landmark   National Register   National Historic Landmark