WMU Department of Campus Planning Home Page

WMU Home Page Welcome to the Department of Campus Planning's

'History of the Campus'

Information Page

Special Section on the WMU Campus Design Charrette, held on May 16, 2006

Building Timelines (29K)

Business, Technology and Research Park Design Standards (pdf file; 1.92M)

Campus Facilities History-Part 1 (117K)

Campus Facilities History-Part 2 (96K)

Campus Maps (68K)

Campus Planning History (45K)

College of Health and Human Services: Planning (66K)

Construction History (29K)

East Campus (59K)

Enrollment History (29K)

Lee Baker Farm (42K) and Asylum Lake (50K)

National Register Listings (106K)

Outdoor Sculpture (147K)

Parkview Campus Master Plan (79K)

Photographs, Images, and Trivia (73K)

1825-1830 Kalamazoo County Vegetation Survey (21K)

2000 Master Plan

Installation of the University Seal at the Student Recreation Center plaza, 1993

Website maintained by Susan Kamman, ASID, NCIDQ
Facilities Analyst - Programming and Planning

Department of Campus Facility Development
Western Michigan University
1903 W. Michigan Ave.

Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5313
phone: (269) 387-8815
fax: (269) 387-8818

Click here for directions

Last updated on May 20, 2008

Click for an explanation of the symbolism of the University seal.
The archival photographs displayed on these web-pages can be found in the Archives and Regional History Collections, located in East Hall; phone (269) 387-8490.
In addition to documents in the offices of Campus Planning and Campus Facilities, the principal references for information on these web-pages are "The First Fifty Years", by James O. Knauss; "WESTERN- A Twentieth Century University", by Leo C. Stine; and the Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital's 135th Anniversary pamphlet, published in 1994.
Many thanks to the staffs of WMU's Office of University Relations and the Archives and Regional History Collections for their assistance.
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