Chemistry Building, 1972
From CSU's Sense of Place: A Campus History of Colorado's Land-Grant University, by James E. Hansen, Gordon A. Hazard, and Linda M. Meyer. Fort Collins, CO: Colorado State University, 2018.
Builders – Pinkard Construction Company of Denver, Baldwin Construction now Alliance Construction Solutions (1994 3-story addition)
1301 Center Avenue Mall
Planning started in the summer of 1966. During the summer of 1969, the Pinkard Construction Company of Denver began construction on the Chemistry Building. It was built to replace the 1923 vintage Chemistry Building on the Oval. This state-of-the-art building contained some of the best laboratories at the University when it was opened for the fall quarter of 1971. This became the third facility to be specifically built as a Chemistry Building on the campus.
Officially dedicated at 10:30 a.m. on November 8, 1971, the Department of Chemistry occupies this 157,000-square-foot building designed by Charles S. Ingalls of Ingalls and Associates of Fort Collins. The consultant for the design of the laboratories was Earl L. Walls and Associates of California. The B and C wing basement and upper three floors housed offices, teaching and research laboratories, glassblowing and electronics shops, classrooms, and seminar rooms. The north A-wing of the first floor featured two large lecture halls. A large bronze by local artist John C. Berland welcomed people at the entrance to the building. A two-day Symposium on Chemistry and Society was held on November 8-9, 1971 to celebrate the dedication. Seven prominent chemists from around the United States gave presentations at the event.
In 1982, William Dilatush of William C. Muchow & Associates, Inc. of Denver designed an addition and remodeling plan. A 7,200 square foot addition was completed in 1984 and remodeling of 7,600 square feet of the building’s basement and second floor was done in 1985. Approved on February 13, 1991 by the State Board of Agriculture, a 23,000 square-foot, 3-story addition to the west side of the building was completed by the Baldwin Construction Company in 1994 using the design of William Dilatush.
In 2002, the opening of Yates Hall connected this building to a three building complex that bridged the former Center Avenue that once ran through campus. In 2011, using designs provided by the Nixon, Brown, Brokaw and Bowan architectural firm, room A103 received major upgrades during its renovation.
In the fall of 2014 it was announced that a new $55.4 million Chemistry Research Building was soon to be built. It would be east of the Microbiology Building and replace the existing Stock Judging Pavilion. Built to add space for the Department of Chemistry, it would be west of a new Biology Building. Both of these new buildings were completed and opened for the fall semester of 2017.
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