Fast-track Growth

What better way to kick off UNLV Magazine’s new Timeline section than with these dramatic aerial shots of the campus?

In 1959, the Southern Regional Division of the University of Nevada boasted just three buildings – Maude Frazier Hall, Archie C. Grant Hall, and the gymnasium. By the 1970s, UNLV had achieved its independence from UNR, its dirt parking lots were paved, and the Las Vegas community was starting to close in. Today, the center of UNLV’s 337-acre main campus is the Lied Library.

Opened in January 2001, the library saw 1.1 million visitors in its first year. This fall, the William S. Boyd School of Law moved into its permanent home on the main campus. UNLV also recently acquired its first satellite campus on Charleston Boulevard, near Interstate 15. The 185,000 square feet of space at the Shadow Lane campus is being refurbished to house UNLV’s Biotechnology Center, Cancer Institute, and School of Dentistry, which welcomed its first class in August.

Historic photos above courtesy of the Lied Library’s special collections department. The library’s vast collection of UNLV and Southern Nevada historical photos is open to the public. For more information, visit www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/index.html.