Editing University of Idaho (section)

===Administration Building===
The Administration Building, with its {{convert|80|ft|0|adj=on|spell=in}} clock tower and [[Collegiate Gothic in North America|Collegiate Gothic]]-style structure, was built from 1907 to 1909 and has become an [[Secular icon|icon]] of the university.<ref name=centntg>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=j9syAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RPAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4926%2C3462318 |work=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |location=(Idaho-Washington) |last=Rush |first=Hadley |title=A century and counting |date=April 4, 2008 |page=1A}}</ref> The building holds classrooms, an auditorium, and administrative offices, including the offices of the [[List of University of Idaho people#Presidents of the University of Idaho|President]] and [[Provost (education)|Provost]]. Multiple expansions were made, with the north wing added in 1912, the eastern portion of the south wing in 1916 (extended west in 1936 for the library),<ref name=sdcavwsw>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v9VXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I_UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2409%2C3025408 |work=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington) |agency=(drawing) |title=Architect's view of new Idaho library |date=December 7, 1936 |page=1}}</ref> and the functional annex in 1950, incorporated into the Albertson addition of 2002. The U of I library was housed in the Administration building until 1957, when the Library building opened,<ref name=seplib>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=k8ReAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xjEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=876%2C6371099 |work=Lewiston Morning Tribune |location=(Idaho)
|title=University separates library from administration building |date=August 23, 1957 |page=11}}</ref> constructed on the former site of tennis courts. The&nbsp;[[University of Idaho College of Law|College of Law]] occupied the south wing until its building (Menard) opened in&nbsp;1973.<ref name=gom73law>{{cite web |url=http://issuu.com/uidahodigital/docs/gem1973/90 |publisher=Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook |title=New Idaho law school (building) slated for completion this fall |year=1973 |page=86}}</ref>

The original Administration building, with a single tall [[spire]] reaching to {{convert|163|ft}}, was constructed through the decade of the 1890s and ultimately finished in 1899. It burned in 1906.<ref name=sdc06fire>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-KlXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7vMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5816%2C6424636|newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington)|title=Idaho's university is a heap of ashes now|date=March 30, 1906|page=1}}</ref><ref name=spr06firea>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D6hXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mfMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6212%2C4652738|newspaper=Spokesman-Review |title=Administration building, Idaho university, burns; loss $200,000 |date=April 3, 1906|page=10}}</ref> In the meantime, classes were held at various sites in Moscow. The new Administration building was designed by [[John E. Tourtellotte]], who modeled the new structure after [[Hampton Court Palace]] in England.<ref name="centntg" /><ref name="autogenerated6">{{cite web|url=http://www.ucm.uidaho.edu/default.aspx?pid=86022 |title=A Brief History of the University of Idaho |work=uidaho.edu |access-date=March 7, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060220153252/http://www.ucm.uidaho.edu/default.aspx?pid=86022 |archive-date=February 20, 2006 }}</ref>

The 1909 Administration building was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1978.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> Two years out of office, former U.S. president [[Theodore Roosevelt]] spoke outside the main east entrance of the new building on April 9, 1911, on a platform built of [[Palouse]] wheat.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

{{wide image|University of Idaho panorama, circa 1915 - Moscow, Idaho.jpg|1000px|Campus, {{circa|1915}}}}