Wandering Stanford University

Campus Walk

1. Stanford Visitor Center

Can’t find a specific building? Want to know what happened on campus the night of your visit? At the Stanford Visitor Center, located at 295 Galvez Street, our staff can make your visit more enriching and enjoyable.

2.Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center

Conveniently located at the corner of Campus and Galvez, it is a home away from home for alumni . The Alumni Center includes the Dwight Family Living Room, Bing Library and the Franklin Fountain and Reflecting Pool.

3.Arrillaga Center for Sports & Recreation

The center is a 75,000-square-foot recreational facility for students, faculty and staff.

4.Montag Hall (Montag Hall)

Montag houses the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid.

5. Knight Management Center

The Knight Management Center reflects our commitment to creating spaces for collaboration between faculty and students, and between Stanford GSB and the rest of Stanford University. collaboration within and with the global business community. It's about discovering things that haven't happened yet and the people who will make their dreams come true.

6. Hoover Tower

Completed in 1941, Hoover Tower is part of the Hoover Institute on War, Revolution, and Peace. It is named after Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States and a graduate of Stanford University's Pioneer Class of 1895. The 14th-floor observation deck is open to visitors and provides a bird's-eye view of campus and much of the Bay Area.

7.Memorial Hall and Memorial Auditorium

Memorial Hall was dedicated in 1937 to commemorate those Stanford students and faculty who lost their lives in World War I work. The hall includes plaques with their names, as well as the names of those who died in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War.

8. Lane History Corner

Lane has departments of History, Philosophy of Science and Science, Technology and Society.

9. Wallenberg Hall (Wallenberg Hall)

Wallenberg Hall is the home base for Stanford University’s university classroom learning research. Stanford faculty can use its advanced resource classrooms to try new ways of teaching and learning.

10.McClatchy Hall (McClatchy Hall)

McClatchy Hall houses the departments of Sociology, Communication and Urban Studies.

11.The Oval and Palm Drive

The Oval and Palm Drive mark the gateway to the University. The oval is a recreational place for students, faculty and community members to picnic, play volleyball and enjoy the California weather. Palm Avenue, lined with approximately 150 Canary Island palm trees, leads to University Avenue and downtown Palo Alto.

12. Building 420

Building 420 is home to the Department of Psychology and Linguistics.

13. Sloan Mathematics Center

Mathematics is one of the oldest fields of intellectual inquiry, but it continues to develop rapidly in many directions and offers many Fundamental ideas and techniques for contemporary applications (including economics, computer science, telecommunications, natural sciences, etc.).

14. David Packard Electrical Engineering

The David Packard Electrical Engineering Building houses the administrative offices of the Department of Electrical Engineering, undergraduate teaching laboratories, and Bytes Coffee pavilion. David Packard and William Hewlett met as electrical engineering students at Stanford University in the 1930s. They then found the HP in Packard's garage in Palo Alto.

15. Nanoscale Science and Engineering

This cutting-edge facility includes some of the world's most advanced nanoscale patterning and characterization equipment.

16. Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building (Y2E2)

(Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building)

Y2E2 reflects Stanford University’s efforts to bring together people from Experts from many disciplines—biologists, geoscientists, ecologists, economists, engineers, legal scholars, and policy analysts—come to address global environmental issues with a commitment.

17. Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center

Home to the School of Engineering, the Jen-Hsun Huang Center is designed to inspire invention in an environment of creativity and collaboration. It houses the Terman Engineering Library, named for Frederick Terman, dean of the School of Engineering in the 1950s. He is widely credited with creating Silicon Valley's culture and academic-industry collaboration. Huang also owned Google's first server and recreation facilities in HP's garage.

18.Ruth Wattis Mitchell Earth Sciences Building (Ruth Wattis Mitchell Earth Sciences Building)

The Ruth Wattis Mitchell Earth Sciences Building was named after Ruth Wattis Mitchell and was dedicated on November 19, 1970 use. Ruth Wattis Mitchell was a sculptor and generous donor to the university.

19.Gay Liberation Sculpture, George Segal (Gay Liberation Sculpture, George Segal)

Gay Liberation is a bronze sculpture group by artist George Segal, consisting of four painted figures and Consists of two benches.

20.The Main Quad

Frederick Law Olmsted planned and designed the Quad in the Richardson Romanesque and Mission Revival architectural styles. Open since 1891, the Quad houses 12 of Stanford's original classrooms. Today, it is home to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the birthplace of many Stanford traditions, such as the Quad Dinner for graduating seniors.

21.Burghers of Calais, Auguste Rodin, 1889 (Burghers of Calais, Auguste Rodin, 1889)

The Burghers of Calais commemorated the British siege of Calais during the Hundred Years' War The personal sacrifices of six outstanding Frenchmen who came to give their lives for their countrymen. Stanford has one of the largest collections of Rodin sculptures in the world.

22. Memorial Church

Jane Stanford designed this church in memory of her husband, Leland Stanford Sr., who died in 1893.

The church, dedicated in 1903, is Christian-centered in design but non-denominational and interfaith in practice.

23. Class Plaques & Time Capsules

Commemorative class plaques line the sidewalks of the inner quad, marking the year of each graduating class. Each class installs its plaque during a special ceremony during Commencement weekend. Most plaques also contain time capsules containing mementos representing each class and graduation year.

24. Cecil H. Green Library

Two wings of the Green Library house research collections in the social sciences and humanities, in addition to There are also general collections of material not found in the smaller branches of research. About a third of the university's 9.3 million physics volumes are greenhouses.

25. School of Education (School of Education)

The Stanford Graduate School of Education is a leader in pioneering new and better ways to achieve high-quality education for all. Faculty and students engage in groundbreaking and creative interdisciplinary scholarship that informs how people learn and shapes the practice and understanding of education.

26. Clock Tower

The Clock Tower was built in 1983 and houses a set of clockwork and bells that were originally placed in the tower at the top of Memorial Church. The tower collapsed from the church during the 1906 earthquake.

27. White Plaza

White Plaza is a 200,000-square-foot landscaped area connecting Main Quad to Tresidder Memorial Union. From rallies to demonstrations, from career fairs to concerts, White Square is the center of student activity.

28.White Memorial Fountain (The Claw)

The White Memorial Fountain (The Claw) is in memory of two Stanford students from the class of 1949, William N. White and John B. White II, who died in separate accidents before graduation. Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond B. White, contributed to the White Memorial Plaza and Fountain.

29. Old Union (Old Union)

Old Union is the affiliated student residence of Stanford University (ASSU), the Office of Student Affairs, the Office of Religious Life, the Ax & Palm Café and various Home to student service organizations, including El Centro Chicano, the Native American Cultural Center, and the Asian American Activity Center.

30. Stanford Bookstore (Stanford Bookstore)

The bookstore is the largest supplier of books and Stanford apparel on campus.

31.Tresidder Memorial Union (Tresidder Memorial Union)

Tresidder is the student union of Stanford University. It houses a variety of services, including a convenience store, restaurants, conference rooms, a bicycle shop, two bank branches and a hair salon.

32.Braun Music Center (Braun Music Center)

The Braun Music Center is the home of the Stanford Music Department. The facility houses faculty offices, classrooms, practice rooms, as well as Braun Rehearsal Hall and Campbell Recital Hall.

33. The Row (Mayfield Avenue) (The Row Mayfield Avenue)

The Row offers a variety of options for upper-level residences, including academic, intercultural and language-themed residences, and Co-operative, self-employed and Greek residential.

34.Stanford Law School

Immersive, interdisciplinary, collaborative, and future-focused—Stanford Law School’s unique approach to legal education creates a Unique course. Because our graduates will practice at the intersection of law and business, medicine, engineering, technology, or the social sciences, we draw on Stanford's broad intellectual resources to make the study of law interdisciplinary.

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