Historical Images of Porter County

Commercial Building, Valparaiso College
Valparaiso, Indiana

Date: Circa 1903
Source Type: Souvenir Book
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Hobart & Kennedy
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: The Commercial Building, more commonly referred to as Commercial Hall, was constructed in 1880 by Henry Baker Brown and Chauncey Watson Boucher. The structure had a footprint of 95-feet by 95-feet. The first two floors were initially used as housing for students at the Northern Indiana Normal School and Business Institute; sixty-eight large room were laid out. The third floor was used for the commercial department of the institute and had a room measuring 40-feet by 95-feet. Note that between 1900 and 1906, today's Valparaiso University was known as Valparaiso College.

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