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UNL Chancellor Rodney Bennett laughs with faculty while sitting on a hayride at Kimmel Orchard and Vineyard during the IANR Roads Scholar Tour on Tuesday in Nebraska City.

HAYDEN ROONEY, Journal Star

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UNL Chancellor Rodney Bennett (from left) speaks with professors Arindam Malakar and Gwendwr Meredith while walking the trails Tuesday at Homestead National Historic Park in Beatrice. The stop was part of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources Roads Scholars Tour.

HAYDEN ROONEY, Journal Star

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Temple Bennett, wife of UNL Chancellor Rodney Bennett, speaks with UNL professors while on a hayride at Kimmel Orchard and Vineyard.

HAYDEN ROONEY, Journal Star

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UNL Chancellor Rodney Bennett and his wife, Temple, look at jalapeños in a jar at Kimmel Orchard and Vineyard during a stop in Nebraska City as part of the IANR Roads Scholar Tour.

HAYDEN ROONEY, Journal Star

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UNL Chancellor Rodney Bennett sits in the cab of a John Deere sprayer as Quentin Cooksley, director of commercial & application business at AKRS Equipment and a UNL alum, describes the computer system that uses cameras and computers to only spray the weeds. The sprayer was being demonstrated at the South Central Ag Lab field day for area farmers, which was part of the IANR Roads Scholar Tour through Nebraska.

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UNL Chancellor Rodney Bennett waves to a group at the field day for area farmers at the South Central Ag Lab near Clay Center. At right is ag lab farm manager Mike Schlick. The field day was part of the IANR Roads Scholar Tour through Nebraska.

Craig Chandler, University Communication

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Architectural Hall, seen here in July 1987 following a $4.38 million renovation, is the university's oldest building. It originally housed UNL's library and art gallery and served as headquarters for the Nebraska State Historical Society.

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Louise Pound Hall previously housed the College of Business Administration. It opened in 1919 and was renovated in 2018.

Julie Koch

The Temple Building, at 12th and R streets, is home to the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film. It was completed in 1908 and renovated in the 1970s.

Julie Koch

Morrill Hall is home to the State Museum of Natural History on the UNL City Campus. 

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Pound (left) and Cather dormitories were known as the Twin Towers when they opened in 1963. Closed in recent years, the dorms were imploded in 2017.

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When the new Teachers’ College Building was constructed at the very eastern edge of the University of Nebraska it also contained the old Temple High School, whose name was then changed to Teachers’ High School. Today the building is extant and connected to the Administration Building to its south across the street west from the Student Union.

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The extant physics building on the University of Nebraska campus opened in 1906 and was dedicated to Professor DeWitt Brace though he died the year before it opened.

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The original cast-iron “Physical Laboratory” sign at Brace Hall was uncovered by construction crews and incorporated into the renovation design by architects Leo A Daly.

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The the old University of Nebraska astronomical observatory is shown about 1910 when it was located just west of today’s physics building on the UNL campus; it was allowed $500 for construction by the Board of Regents. A few years later, a new observatory was built south of Brace Laboratory, first proposed to cost $12,500 and later estimated to be double that, still far from a vast amount.

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Construction on Architecture Hall, originally built as a library for $110,000, started in 1892. It was renovated for $4.3 million in the mid-1980s.

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Construction underway in January 1986 renovating and linking UNL's former law building (left) and Architectural Hall.

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UNL demolish the Cather and Pound residence halls in 2017.

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Banners tream down through the atrium gathering place which unites UNL's Architecture Hall and Architecture Hall West, the former law college building, in this November 1987 photo.

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Reach the writer at 402-473-7120 or cdunker@journalstar.com.

On Twitter @ChrisDunkerLJS

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