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Caption: Dedication - Harker Hall
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I n March of 1873, Nathan Clifford Ricker became the first student graduated from the University's architecture program. He was also the first to graduate from any school of architecture in the nation, beating out M.I.T. and Cornell University by just a few months. **> While still a student, Ricker was placed in temporary charge of the classroom as instructor for himself and three fellow students when the University's only Professor of Architecture fell ill. After graduation, Ricker spent six months traveling and studying architecture in Europe. Then he returned to Illinois for a permanent teaching position. ** While teaching, he continued his own studies and received his Master of Architecture in 1878. His was the second such degree to be conferred in the United States. *** The guiding principles of the Department of Architecture under Ricker were that the architect should first be a safe and economical builder, second a person of business capacity, and third an artistic designer. Detailfrom a 1910 etching of the Vrbana campus of the University of Illinois showing darker Hall at the upper left. Nathan Clifford Ricker: Architect and Educator
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