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Local civic leaders aided the university in buying six acres of land along the St. Joseph River, and in 1958 construction began on the South Bend-Mishawaka Center. Previously, classes had been held at Central High School in downtown South Bend.
Note: This list is organized chronologically.
Northside Hall opened in 1961, already too small for the needs of its 1,500 students.(From Dr. Patrick Furlong's "History of Indiana University South Bend" on the IU South Bend Archives' webpage: http://www.iusb.edu/~libg/archives/iusbhistory.shtml).
Note: Northside Hall was our first – and for a long time, primary building. Northside had not only classrooms and laboratories, but most of the campus' offices as well as the library included in it, and the auditorium. Various professors and administrators also had their offices in the houses that surrounded the campus, in the surrounding neighborhood...
Administration Building: Originally a part of the original Associates Insurance Corporation complex (see also "Associates Building" below), the Administration Building was purchased in 1965.
Greenlawn Hall: Home of the former Hutchins Tool and Die Company. Greenlawn was purchased in 1966. Greenlawn opened to provide more class room space. Currently it hosts largely Education classes, as well as the Education Resource Center.
Riverside Hall: IU South Bend's fourth building, Riverside Hall, was completed in 1969, built to house the Dental Program (where it still resides), the Labor Studies Department, as well as faculty offices.
Associates Building: IU South Bend bought the Associates Building from the Associates Insurance Corporation in 1975, with an agreement the Associates Corporation would be able to have access to the buildings on a "temporary, rolling basis". (See also "Administration Building" above) IU South Bend moved into the building in 1977, and added to the building in 1986. Currently, the Associates Building hosts the Fine Arts Gallery as well as the School of Business and Economics and several other administrative offices.
Child Development Center: In its early days, the Child Development Center was known as the Day Care Center. It has had three locations – first off-campus, and then in its current on-campus location. The Day Care Center began in 1970 at 114 Ironwood Avenue. In 1982 it moved to 1101 East Jefferson Avenue (in the First Christian Church of South Bend). In 1986 it came to the IU South Bend campus, and was then called the Child Development Center.
Women's Center: The Women's Center had three locations at various times – both off and on campus. The Women's Center was begun in 1979 at 913 20th Street. In 1985 it moved to 929 Greenlawn Avenue. In 1988 it came to the IU South Bend campus and was in Northside Hall. There was not a formalized Women’s Center after 1996 on campus – or off.
Fine Arts Building: This was the Stanz Cheese Processing Plant originally. The building was purchased in the 1980s and was built circa 1950s.
Franklin D. Schurz Library: Built 1989 (ground broken in 1987). Franklin D. Schurz, chairman of the board of Schurz Communications, Inc., a media broadcasting company as well as former editor and publisher of The South Bend Tribune, gave IU South Bend generous donations to complete the construction of the building. Other monies were provided by rental income from the Associates Building's computer facility and the Indiana state bonding authority. In addition, then Library Director James Mullins made significant efforts towards the building of the new library. Note: This marked the Library as having its own building for the first time (moving out of Northside Hall).
Purdue Tech Building: October 28, 1993 - Purdue Technology Building dedication. Purdue school of Technology courses have been offered continuously since the creation of the South Bend- Mishawaka Extension Center in 1933, with two year diplomas being awarded locally for the first time in 1986. Note: Indiana University South Bend acquired and renovated the former Army Reserve Center adjacent to campus on Northside Boulevard with new classrooms and technology laboratories for Purdue University programs. (See IU South Bend's NCA Self Study of 2000: http://www.iusb.edu/~acadaff/nca/chap1.html#Brief%20History%20of%20the%20Campus ).
Wiekamp Hall: April 14, 1994 - Groundbreaking for Dorothy and Darwin Weikamp Classroom/ Office Building, the first purpose- built classroom facility added to the campus in more than thirty years. Dedicated in 1998. It is – with Northside Hall – the largest building for classrooms on campus. The offices of the Humanities Departments reside in Wiekamp. Note: Wiekamp is the site of the former Coca Cola Bottling Factory, which was torn down to build Wiekamp.
Note: The appearance of the campus was changed significantly when several streets were taken out to make one continuous campus with a pedestrian mall. 1998 saw the completion of the Pedestrian Mall.
Student Activities Center: September 25, 1999 - groundbreaking for the Student Activities Center. Dedicated in 2004. Serves as the primary center for student offices and activities, including the Student Government Center, the student newspaper, meeting rooms, a café, a workout facility, and basketball and racquet ball courts.
IU School of Medicine-South Bend: Dedicated in October of 2005. Housed directly across from the University of Notre Dame campus (read: NOT on the IU South Bend campus), this facility offers medical students in South Bend the opportunity to take courses in their field. The IU School of Medicine began offering classes in South Bend in 1968.
Elkhart Center: The Elkhart Center of IU South Bend was completed in 2007, providing a permanent base and presence in Elkhart. It is 25,000 square feet in downtown Elkhart. The Elkhart Center offers credit classes year around. It had previously been housed in rented space.
River Crossing Campus Apartments: Dedicated in August 2008 in time for Fall 2008 classes. This marks the first time that IU South Bend students have stand-alone dormitory housing. The land is directly across the St. Joseph River from the campus, connected by a pedestrian bridge. The land, the former Playland Park (23 acres) had been purchased in 1994.
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