Mechanical Arts Building demolition, 1979

A pile of rubble sits next to the Mechanical Arts Building during its demolition in 1979. Constructed in 1897, the Mechanical Arts Building was originally located where the Paul Laxalt Mining Engineering Building stands today. Originally, university students built their own wooden Mechanical Arts Building in 1892 which burned down in 1895. The brick and stone building was later named the Mechanical Engineering Building, the Human Development Laboratory (1965), University Relations (1978), and finally re-circled to the Mechanical Arts Building in 1979 when it was torn down.