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The Built Environment: 130 Years of Growth, Development, and Change on the USU Campus: Student Facilities Continued
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Student Facilities Continued
In 1930, a $175,000 state appropriation enabled construction of the first campus library building. Quickly outgrowing the 80,000-book and 300-student capacity, the university expanded the library in 1966 by essentially building a brick and mortar box around the existing structure. Named for retiring Vice President Milton R. Merrill in 1970, the library again outgrew itself. In 2003, the university planned to conjoin the Science and Technology Library, named after retired President Stanford O. Cazier, with a new facility. The resulting Merrill-Cazier Library opened in 2005, as crews demolished the old Merrill Library. Today, the Stan Albrecht Agriculture Sciences Building occupies the space of the former library.
Greek Row (1940–)
A persistent housing shortage at Utah State made sororities and fraternities popular among students inclined to join these organizations. Most early Greek houses were located throughout downtown Logan. In 1940, the Sigma Chi fraternity built the first house along Greek Row at the corner of seventh North and eighth East. Other fraternities and sororities soon followed.
