Monday, June 22, 2009

Northern Illinois University - DeKalb




Algeld Hall, Northern's first building, was completed in 1899 and named for John Peter Altgeld, then governor of Illinois. Promptly nicknamed "the Castle on the Hill" for its castle-on-the-Rhine architectural style, it originally house the school's classrooms, laboratories, offices, gymnasium, library, and auditorium

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