Courtesy photo
The McMurry pioneer home, later known as Chichester Place, was located on the land tract that later
became the University campus. The house was located at what is now 13th Avenue and University Street,
where the EMU now stands
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city ol Kugene bonghi 1 7 r>
m res of land for 52.500 from a
l(x:al minister The site extend
ed from .i point on Kith Ave
nue just past the University
Bookstore, north to Franklin
Boulevard and west to Univer
sity Street.
In May lH7;t the legislature
approved the site, and con
struction promptlv began on
Deady Hall
The building had four walls
and a roof by the time the tall
rains came, hut in 1(174, con
struction obstacles prompted
the legislature to grant a two
year extension for the universi
ty's opening VV.J.J. Scott, a lo
cal rancher, assumed a $5,000
university debt permitting con
struction to continue.
The building was completed
in the summer of 1871). and
was accepted with .1 ( h.irti'r
ifr.itteii fiv Matthew Dr.ulv in
the 1,1st days of the fH7t» legisla
tore
The l Tm ersitv opened its
doors ,is Oregon Stale Universi
tv on Oct If), IH7f> to a i lass ot
Oti students, with a nearly even
mix of men and women
Tin’ ( itv and the University
grew together geographically
and culturally.
The University originally lay
outside the ( ity limits, and it
was assumed that the Universi
ty would grow toward Luigene,
Richards said In fact, the oppo
site happened, and the Univer
sity scrambled to acquire more
land before it was surrounded
by the city
The property at ldth Avenue
and Alder Street, now a park
ing lot, was the only land to
ward luigene that the Universi
tv purelieved Tim University
bel if vucl t he pif( c of 1.1 ml
would hr .it !hf i enter ol i .mi
pus. iind it was proposed .is .1
site lor .1 student union
As ,i i alalv st tor i ullui.il
change, the universllv set Mu
gene apart from other cities of
the s line size, Richards s.ml
The Universllv brought Intel
lectuals, music i.ms and culebri
ties to campus and to the city,
including some who would
only come because ol the l'ill
v ersitv s liberal reputation
I ugelieans also were given the
opportunity to see major politi
cal players who ini luded Mu
gene on their i umpulgn trail be
cause ol the University
Tile coexistence betwoen
rumpus and city has seen rosy
and stormy times, but Kugene
might have had a very different
cultural identity had it not gone
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