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Caption: Dedication - Henry Admin Renaming
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THE BUILDIN< The Administration Building was built in two major pieces. The east, or Quadrangle wing, was built in 1912-13 as a free-standing Commerce Building. The College of Commerce and Business Administration vacated the east wing in 1925 for its new building south of the Library. The west wing was built in 1914-15 as the Administration Building, parallel to the Commerce Building and connected to it by an existing one-story lecture room. President Edmund Janes James (1904-20), moved from the second floor of the overcrowded Natural History Building to the new Wright Street building in 1915. A four-story addition was constructed on the south side of the Administration Building in 1964. By action of the University of Illinois Board \ of Trustees on March 12, 1987, the Administration Building at 506 South Wright Street in Urbana, Illinois, toas redesignated the David Dodds Henry Administration BuildingThe ceremony to pay tribute to David Dodds Henry and celebrate the building redesignation was held at 9:30 a. m., Saturday, October 31, 1987. VOV\ 108? *»)
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