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This is one of several campus buildings featuring Oread limestone,
rock quarried on-site or near Potter Lake.
It was designed for the engineering and architecture programs
and named to honor the first dean of engineering,
Frank O. Marvin and his father James, our third chancellor.
When it was built, Marvin was on the extreme west edge of campus.
It could have opened in 1908, but it was so far from the
power plant that it couldn't be heated until a year later
when the plant was enlarged.
Engineering moved to the new Learned Hall in the 1963,
but the architecture faculty remained,
and the School of Architecture was established here in 1968.
In 1982, an award-winning renovation designed by
alumni Robert Gould and David Evans updated studios,
conference rooms, and offices.
Students often work on class projects so late into the
night that Marvin has been dubbed "the Lighthouse on the Hill."