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Preserving the ‘University beneath the University’: The bricks, foundations and artifacts from buildings past<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Darin Buri (right) and Mike Bibow (green vest) collect bricks from the foundation of Woodworth Hall, a building on the UND quad that burned down in 1949. The foundation was uncovered in June during\u00a0 excavation work just south of the Chester Fritz Library. Photo courtesy of Darin Buri.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While walking around the UND campus, whether it\u2019s one person out for leisurely stroll or a group of students scurrying between classes, few probably realize they\u2019re treading just above the vestiges of a University that no longer exists.<\/p>\n

In the past five years when UND began tearing down older buildings, constructing new ones and renovating others, as well as improving underground infrastructure, remnants and artifacts from the university during the late 1800s and early 1900s have been unearthed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings come up as we start to dig underground on these older areas of campus,\u201d said Brian Larson<\/a>, UND\u2019s director of construction management. \u201cThe last few years, we\u2019ve been working on areas of campus that have been undisturbed for decades. It\u2019s a really cool opportunity to look back in time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This 1927 photo shows how much UND’s campus has changed over the decades. Memorial Stadium in the foreground was razed in 2021. The large building on the right is the School of Law and to its left is Woodworth Hall, which burned down in 1949. Old Science Hall, now gone, is directly behind Woodworth. Gillette Hall, still in use today, is to the left of Woodworth.\u00a0 The Carnegie building, which was then UND’s library, is on the far left and Babcock Hall next to it are still on today’s campus quad. Demolished buildings Budge Hall and Old Main are behind and to the right of Babcock. Most other buildings in the photo have since been demolished. Photo from UND Chester Fritz Library Department of Special Collections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The discoveries range from the foundations and basements of buildings dating back to just after UND\u2019s founding in 1883 to artifacts that include a section rail track for coal transport, bricks fused together, shards of pottery dredged up from the English Coulee and a buried outdoor kiln.<\/p>\n

Working with Larson to preserve and document these finds are Darin Buri<\/a>, facility and geology library manager at the College of Engineering & Mines<\/a>, and Mike Bibow, assistant operations manager with AE2<\/sub>S<\/a> engineering and environmental services in Grand Forks.<\/p>\n

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Darin Buri, geology library manager, holds fused bricks unearthed on the UND campus near the Hughes Fine Arts Center. Inscribed on each brick is: “Made at School of Mines, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D.” He believes they might have been intended for use as paperweights as part of a class project. Photo by Patrick C. Miller\/UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Preserving the past<\/h2>\n

Buri has made it his mission to collect remnants and examples of activities from the long-gone buildings, storing the artifacts in the geology library in Leonard Hall. Some of his discoveries serve to confirm what\u2019s known \u2013 but perhaps forgotten \u2013 and others remain shrouded in mystery.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has given us a real window into the past,\u201d Buri noted. \u201cEven though we\u2019re renewing the campus, we\u2019re able to actually stand on the old floors of old buildings. It\u2019s really cool to be able to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

For example, during the summer while excavating on the south side of Chester Fritz Library, construction workers encountered the buried foundation of Woodworth Hall, a large three-story building constructed in 1910 that burned down in 1949. Buri and Bibow went into the trenches to collect samples of bricks from the foundation.<\/p>\n

Recounting the Woodworth Hall fire, Buri said, \u201cSomebody reported the fire during the night. It must have burned slowly because there were reports of students forming lines and throwing band uniforms and other things out the windows. it\u2019s kind of crazy to think that students were running into a burning building.\u201d<\/p>\n

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From the left, Mike Bibow, Darin Buri and Brian Larson, display bricks and other artifacts recovered from excavations and renovations on the university’s campus. The items are cataloged and stored in the geology library in Leonard Hall. Photo by Patrick C. Miller\/UND Today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What is it?<\/h2>\n

As Bibow explained, in the past when buildings were demolished, the practice was to remove the walls to a few feet below ground level, then fill in and cover the basement and foundation walls. This is why portions of UND\u2019s original buildings are still standing just below the surface, along with forgotten relics of the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny time we uncover something, we bring in a surveyor to put it into a map,\u201d Bibow explained. \u201cSometimes you record three or four things you\u2019ve uncovered, not knowing what they are. It\u2019s not until you overlay it with a historical map of the campus that you realize it\u2019s a foundation or something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larson said UND has digital versions of historic campus maps from as far back as 1899.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a good sense of where the outline of these original buildings are,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you overlay maps of the old foundations on top of our new maps, you can see the progression of the campus.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Locations of demolished buildings on campus, outlined in purple, are shown in relation to buildings on today’s UND campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During excavations, Larson said construction crews have also encountered abandoned brick-lined steam tunnels that once provided heat to buildings on campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll end up trenching right through them, sealing them off and then running our new pipes through,\u201d he said. \u201cWe still have some old brick-lined manholes on campus. A number of them are still in really good shape.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finding Davis<\/h2>\n

One of the biggest finds came in 2019 when a parking lot was being built south of Burtness Theatre and west of Twamley Hall, partially exposing the foundation of Davis Hall, built in 1887 and demolished in 1965.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t know exactly what part of the building it was because we didn\u2019t have the blueprints, but we definitely knew it was Davis Hall,\u201d Buri recalled.<\/p>\n

Once the blueprints were provided, the real work began.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe realized it wasn\u2019t just one piece of the foundation; it was pretty much the entire basement walls that were intact and part of the floor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As the digging went deeper, it became obvious the basement had been filled with rubble from the building.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn those rubble piles, there was a lot of contents from the era mixed in there,\u201d Buri said. \u201cThere were milk bottles, cutlery, garbage and all sorts of miscellaneous contents uncovered.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Darin Buri next to the foundation of a warehouse building unearthed in 2019 northwest of Twamley Hall near the English Coulee. Photo courtesy of Darin Buri.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Farther to the northwest, the foundations of smaller buildings were found, along with a kiln.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe kiln was way below the surface,\u201d Buri said. \u201cIt still had cast-iron grates intact. We found inkwells and many different things down there. We were able to dig that out and get some pictures before they hauled it away.\u201d<\/p>\n

The kiln\u2019s purpose remains one the unsolved mysteries of UND\u2019s underground past. Another mystery is: how did so much broken pottery end up in the coulee near the bridge south of the Hughes Fine Arts Center?<\/p>\n

Bibow described how the foundation of Budge Hall \u2013 one of the original buildings on the UND quad located directly east of Twamley Hall \u2013 was accidentally found.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were trying to install lights and would drill down about three feet deep before hitting concrete,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019d move over and drill, hit something else and move over again. Based on the locations we tried to drill, we started seeing this pattern. We found some old maps and, sure enough, it was Budge Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n

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These items were found in 2019 in a fire pit near the foundation of Chandler Hall while it was being demolished. Photo courtesy of Darin Buri.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Still seeking answers<\/h2>\n

Buri is hopeful that UND alumni who have old photos or postcards of campus or memories of activities in and uses of the university\u2019s early buildings will be willing to share them to help fill in the blanks.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe people could send us their scans of photos so we can see some of these old buildings,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m sure there are people out there who lived in Davis Hall when it was a women\u2019s dormitory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larson believes that when renovations on Merrifield and Twamley halls begin soon, it\u2019s likely the foundation of UND\u2019s first building \u2013 Old Main, which was torn down in 1963 \u2013 will be uncovered. That site lies under the Eternal Flame sculpture between the two buildings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe upcoming renovation at Merrifield will involve some underground work, probably some foundation waterproofing,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ll be excavating around Merrifield, an area that hasn\u2019t been disturbed since the hall was finished in 1929.\u201d<\/p>\n

These underground finds are not only valuable for preserving the history of UND\u2019s campus, but also in providing architectural continuity as new buildings are constructed and older buildings are renovated.<\/p>\n

\u201cReferencing back to the original buildings on campus is always important,\u201d Larson said. \u201cThe campus has to have a sense of history to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

To download the latest map from UND Facilities Management<\/a> showing the locations of existing buildings on campus and buildings that have been demolished, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In 2019, he rejoined UND after working two years at Amazon and five years at BBI International, where he was a writer\/photographer for the company's oil and gas, alternative fuels and UAS magazines.","url":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/author\/pmiller\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36258,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26354\/revisions\/36258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}