The
Westminster College Historic District was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Historic Westminster Gymnasium The
Gym was built in 1928 and completely renovated in 1972. This
National Historic Landmark is where Winston Churchill presented his
"Iron Curtain" speech in March 1946. Vice President Dick Cheney also visited the college during the 2004 campaign and spoke in the Gym. When new bleachers were installed, the old bleachers were recycled into new lockers for the men's and women's locker rooms. The floor has been renamed for
Henry "Hank" Iba, Class of 1927, who was an all-state basketball, football, and baseball player at Westminster before going on to coach
Oklahoma State University to two national basketball titles and the
U.S. Olympics basketball team to two gold
medals. The Gym houses a basketball/volleyball court, athletic offices, and an exercise room. It also housed an indoor swimming pool until 2016.
Westminster Hall This hall was built in 1911 and renovated in 1973–74. It is the main administrative building on campus and houses the Business Office, the
Registrar, and
Dean of Faculty offices, along with two classrooms. The lower-level houses Westminster's Wellness Center (
Health and
Counseling Services) and the Tomnitz Family
Learning Opportunities Center.
The Columns These columns are the only remains of the first Westminster Hall built in 1854 and destroyed by fire in 1909. These Columns are the center of a campus tradition, the Columns Ceremony.
Newnham Hall It was originally built in 1901 and is the oldest building on campus. It was completely renovated and remodeled in early 1970 as a gift of an
alumnus.
Reeves Library and the Student Success Center Reeves Library was built in 1951 and expanded & renovated in 1981 and again in 1996. In 2020, the library grew to incorporate a new Student Success Center. The building houses a collection of more than 100,000 volumes readily available in-house for students and faculty. It is a member of the
statewide consortium of 50 academic libraries. The Hazel Wing was dedicated in October 1996 and serves as the
technological center on the campus, housing four
computer labs,
video editing equipment, a
multimedia classroom, a
language lab, small group meeting, and study rooms as well as offices for the Department of Information Technology. With the addition of the Student Success Center, various student services were brought under one roof, including the Greg Richard Office of Advising and Career Development, a gift from an alumnus and former
trustee; the Office of Global Educational Services; and the WCares Program.
Hunter Activity Center Otherwise known as the "HAC", this building is a common area for both faculty and students. Downstairs is the Johnson College Inn (known to students as "JCI") grill/snack bar which is surrounded by
ping-pong tables,
pool tables, campus mailboxes, and the TV lounge. Upstairs houses meeting rooms and the HAC Gym. Westminster's HAC Gym includes a
racquetball court, indoor
track,
weight equipment, and workout room and is the site for most
intramural sports.
Champ Auditorium This large building was built in 1966 and seats 1,400 people for concerts, lectures, music productions, and other college events such as
commencement and Freshmen
Convocation. A wide variety of notable individuals have spoken at Champ Auditorium since the building's completion, including rock musician and global humanitarian Bob Geldof, former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. It was dedicated to Westminster College in 1990 by former President Ronald Reagan.
Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury designed Church of
St Mary Aldermanbury, rebuilt at Westminster College, Missouri The predecessor of this church building was originally constructed in London during the 12th century, but it burned down in the
Great Fire of London in 1666. This church was erected as its replacement by Christopher Wren in the 17th century. During
World War II, the Wren church was gutted by
German bombs and in the mid-1960s, it was dismantled and shipped stone by stone to Fulton and reconstructed on Westminster's campus. Today, the church serves as the college's chapel. While it is occasionally claimed that St. Mary's is the oldest church in North America, the statement is not accurate. The transported Wren building is not the original 12th Century building of the St. Mary Aldermanbury parish of London. It is instead the replacement that was built under Wren's direction between 1672 and 1677, containing a single set of stairs from the medieval period, being an almost entirely new construction made largely of Portland stone that Wren had quarried in Dorset. This would make it considerably newer than such ancient North American buildings as the church of San Francisco in
Tlaxcala, Mexico, whose construction began in 1521.
America's National Churchill Museum Located below the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury,
this state-of-the-art museum is devoted to Sir Winston Churchill. In 2005, the building underwent a $4 million renovation and reopened in March 2006, marking the 60th anniversary of Churchill's speech at Westminster. This museum features interactive exhibits about Churchill, World War II, Sir Christopher Wren, and the Church of St. Mary, the Virgin, Aldermanbury. The Museum also showcases traveling and temporary exhibits, archival resources for scholarly research, and a gift shop with unique "Churchillian" merchandise.
Residential life Westminster College manages and maintains nine
residence halls as well as a limited number of residential homes for student occupancy. In addition, the six national fraternities for men operate their own independent living units. New students are generally assigned to Gage, Marquess, Rice, Scott, and Sloss Halls, which compose the Churchill Quadrangle. Westminster's upper-class students live either in one of the four upper-class residence halls (Emerson, Wetterau, Weigle, Sweazey), Westminster Apartments, an on-campus residential house, Westminster Townhouses, or a national fraternity house. Members of Westminster's national sororities live in designated floors of three residence halls. ==Student life==