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Overview

This academic building covered with a compound hipped roof was completed in 1900 and named for a noted chemist, Edgar McClure, who died at age 34 during a Mount Rainier mountaineering expedition on 07/27/1897. The building at first accommodated the sciences at the University of Oregon, but would subsequently house the Department of Chemistry, specifically, for many years.

Building History

The University of Oregon allocated funding for a new science building in 06/1899. A note in the Pullman (WA) Herald read: “The board of regents of the University of Oregon have approved the plans for the new science building to be erected at a cost of about $16,000.” (See "Oregon," Pullman Herald, 06/24/1899, p. 3.)

Rolph H. Miller (1857-1901), who had worked in the prestigious architectural office of Whidden and Lewis in Portland, designed the Science Building in 1899. Unfortunately, Miller would live for only one year after McClure Hall's completion in 1900.

McClure Hall was named for Edgar McClure (d. 07/27/1901 in WA), in 06/1901. A wire story in the Boston Evening Transcriptnewspaper stated: "The new science building of the University of Oregon is to be named McClure hall, in honor of the late Prof. Edgar McClure." (See "Thursday," Boston Evening Transcript 06/26/1901, p. 9.)

Alteration

The Journalism Building, Allen Hall, was appended to one side of McClure Hall in the 1920s. Ellis F. Lawrence (1879-1946), the architect for many buildings on the U of O campus during the first 46 years of the 20th century, designed Allen Hall.

PCAD id: 25167