Northwestern's original
Evanston, Illinois campus, located just north of
Chicago on the shores of
Lake Michigan, can be traced to 1851, one year after the institution's founding. The campus still hosts the majority of Northwestern's undergraduate programs, as well as several of its graduate and professional schools. Unlike many prestigious universities of the time, whose campuses were iteratively master-planned, buildings on the
Evanston Campus range heavily in both architectural style and date, due in part to the university's historically fluctuating finances. The earliest buildings are of
Victorian,
Gothic-adjacent,
Neoclassical, and
Renaissance-Revival styles. Numerous buildings on the Evanston campus constructed from the early to mid-twentieth century, including lecture halls, student residences, and the
university's flagship library, were commissioned in the
Collegiate Gothic style by notable American campus architect
James Gamble Rogers. In the postwar period, numerous brutalist projects were undertaken, including an expansion of the
main library by
Walter Netsch. Many of these buildings are located on the
Northwestern University Lakefill, a 1964 landfill extension of Northwestern's campus into
Lake Michigan. As the university's first and primary campus, Evanston has seen major development in the past decade, including the construction of major new projects for its
Music,
Business, and
Athletic programs designed by leading architecture firms.
Academic buildings and lecture halls Libraries Performing arts Science and research buildings Religious buildings Athletic buildings Administrative and other student buildings Residences Other buildings Listed alphabetically by address • 1808 Chicago Avenue • 1810-12 Chicago Avenue, department of anthropology, department of sociology • 1815 Chicago Avenue • 405 Church Street, College Preparation Program • 515 Clark Street • 555 Clark Street, Cook Family Writing Program, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences Program, Center for the Writing Arts, various student financial offices • 619 Clark Street, various financial offices • 625 Colfax Street • 629 Colfax Street, Office of Global Safety and Security • 617 Dartmouth Place, Center for Talent Development • 627 Dartmouth Place, Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching • 630 Dartmouth Place, International Office • 1201 Davis Street, various alumni and development offices, University Police • 619 Emerson Street, Holocaust Educational Foundation, Office of Undergraduate Studies and Advising • 633 Emerson Street, Student Health Services • 618 Garrett Place, Master of Science in Education (MSEd) • 625 Haven Street • 617 Haven Street,
Naval ROTC • 600 Haven Street, New Student and Family Programs (NSFP) • 1801 Hinman Avenue, Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid, Veterans Office • 1810 Hinman Avenue, Department of Anthropology • 1812 Hinman Avenue • 1813 Hinman Avenue, Center for Civic Engagement, Center for Leadership, Chicago Field Studies Program (CFS) • 1819 Hinman Avenue, Program of Asian American Studies • 1835 Hinman Avenue, Dining hall • 617 Library Place, Writing Place • 618 Library Place, Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, The Family Institute • 620 Library Place, Program of African Studies, Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) • 626 Library Place • 620 Lincoln Street, Legal Studies Program • 630 Lincoln Street, Northwestern Career Advancement and SafeRide • 640 Lincoln Street, Art Theory and Practice Department • 1801 Maple Avenue, Media Management Center (MMC), NU in Qatar Support Office, Traffic Safety School • 616 Noyes Street, Integrated Science Program (ISP) • 617 Noyes Street, National High School Institute • 625 Noyes Street • 629 Noyes Street,
Northwestern University Press • 1840 Oak Ave,
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute • 1603 Orrington Ave, Office of Compliance, Audit and Advisory Service • 2020 Ridge Avenue, various administrative offices • 1902 Sheridan Road, Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS), Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Center for International and Comparative Studies, Center for Technology Innovation Management • 1908 Sheridan Road, Office of Undergraduate Studies and Advising • 1914 Sheridan Road, African American Student Affairs • 1918 Sheridan Road, Dean's Office for the
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences • 1922 Sheridan Road, Office of Undergraduate Studies and Advising • 1936 Sheridan Road, Multicultural Center, Multicultural Student Affairs, University Academic Advisory Center, Asian/Asian American Student Affairs • 1940 Sheridan Road, Office of Fellowships & the University Academic Advising Center (UAAC) • 2000 Sheridan Road • 2006 Sheridan Road, Statistics Department • 2010 Sheridan Road, Programs for Asian Studies, International Studies, International and Area Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Harvey Kapnick Center for Business Institutions • 2016 Sheridan Road, Department of Linguistics • 2040 Sheridan Road, Institute for Policy Research • 2046 Sheridan Road • 2122 Sheridan Road, various residential services • 1800 Sherman Avenue, Innovation and New Ventures Office (INVO), Art History Department, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of German, Global Health Studies Program, Middle East and North African Studies (MENA), Slavic Languages and Literatures (purchased by Northwestern in 2004) • 720 University Place, Human Resources Department, Payroll ==Chicago campus==