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During Hoover's presidency (1929–33), the Hoover family only made brief visits to their Stanford home. They returned to this house after 1932, while maintaining a New York apartment as a second residence. After Lou's death in 1944, her husband deeded the house to Stanford University to serve as a home for university professors.
After living in the house for 38 years, the Hannas gave the property to Stanford University in 1974, to house scholars in international education, instead, it housed four university provosts. [10] It is open for tours by reservation only. [7] It is occasionally used for university functions such as seminars and receptions.
The McMurtry Building opened in 2015 and houses Stanford University's Department of Art and Art History. [1]The project cost an estimated $87 million. To start the project, Stanford received $30 million from donors Burt McMurtry, former chair of the Board of Trustees, and his wife Deedee McMurtry, after whom the building was named.
Hoover Tower is a 285-foot (87 m) structure on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California, United States. The tower houses the Hoover Institution Library and Archives , an archive collection founded by Herbert Hoover before he became president of the United States .
Virtual Reality of Stanford Mausoleum, a QuickTime panorama by Erik Goetze Stanford Mausoleum at Stanford Buildings & Ground Maintenance Founders' Celebration , by Stanford University, with information about the annual opening to the public of the Mausoleum
Wallenberg Hall (building 160) on east side of the front (History Corner) is named for the Wallenberg family who gave much of the money for renovating it in 1999. In the early days it housed the university library and was originally built in 1900 with funds from Thomas Welton Stanford, brother of university founder Leland Stanford and uncle of Leland Stanford Junior for whom the university is ...
The Cantor Arts Center's collection houses over 38,000 items, including African Art, American Art, Ancient Art, the Andy Warhol Photography Archive, Art of Asia and Oceania, Art of the Indigenous Americas, Auguste Rodin, Eadweard Muybridge, European Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, Photographs, Prints and Drawings, Richard Diebenkorn Sketchbooks, Sculptures on Campus, and collections and ...
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) [11] [12] is a private research university in Stanford, California, United States.It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford, the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California, and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr.