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The Harold B. Lee Library and other central buildings with Y Mountain and Kyhv Peak in the background. This list of Brigham Young University buildings catalogs the current and no-longer-existent structures of Brigham Young University (BYU), a private, coeducational research university owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) located in Provo, Utah, United States.
Metcalf was the former director of the Harvard Library, and consulted with Tyler about the plans for BYU's new library. [9] BYU commissioned Lorenzo Snow Young to make the plans for addition. [10] The J. Reuben Clark Library was completed in 1961. [11] The library's collection reached 500,000 volumes in 1965, [12] and one million volumes by 1971.
The addition increased the building's capacity by 53 percent and provides 10 tiered classrooms, one network teaching room, one large assembly room, and 39 study rooms. [35] The Tanner Building is located directly west of central campus. To its immediate north is the Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center and on-campus housing Helaman ...
The main portion of the Testing Center is a large main testing room, which originally served as BYU's library, and now is filled with approximately 500 desks. Students enter through the center's administration area. The center also has a few smaller rooms with even more desks that are used as overflows when the main testing rooms reach capacity.
Wyview Park is a living complex for married and single students at BYU. The university had purchased 150 mobile home units to provide housing for married students until Wyview Park was built. Wyview was dedicated by James E. Faust. When the complex opened in 1998, it had a waiting list of 900 applicants which grew to 1,800 within a few months. [42]
The Joseph Smith Building, also known as the JSB, is a building that houses classrooms and administrative offices at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah, United States. The building is named after Joseph Smith , founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .
The structure contains a large study lounge and many classrooms. Over 40% of the floor space is dedicated to laboratory instruction and research. [ 1 ] The structure contains an auditorium, several computer labs, a structures lab with large I-beams and a crane, a soil mechanics lab, environmental lab, transportation lab, a solid-state clean ...
Currently the Jesse Knight building is the location of the BYU Police, Freshman Academy administration, Human Resource Development, the Visual Arts department (in the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications), the English Writing Center, the Humanities Publications Center, School of Management computer laboratories, and classrooms.