Lehigh University, located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has many buildings, old and new, on its three campuses. When the university was founded in 1865, it took over several buildings from the surrounding property; one of these three buildings remains today, Christmas Hall, which is part of Christmas-Saucon Hall.W. Ross Yates, Sermon in Stone, http://www.lehigh.edu/~incha/yates.html Building CodesCodeNameBIBusiness Innovation Building CO Coppee Hall CU Chandler Ullmann Bldg CX Coxe Hall DR Drown Hall FM Fairchild-Martindale Lib FR Fritz Lab GR Grace Hall IA Iacocca Hall IL Imbt Laboratories LA Lamberton Hall LI Linderman Library LL Lewis Lab MG Maginnes Hall MO Mohler Building MU Mudd Building NV Neville Hall PA Packard Lab PH Philosophy Building PR Price Hall RB Rauch Business Center SI Sinclair Lab ST STEPS* TA Taylor Gym UC University Center WB Wilbur Workshop WH Whitaker Lab WI Williams Hall XS Christmas Saucon Hall ZA Zoellner Arts Center

Asa Packer Campus

The original Lehigh University campus contains most of the university's academic and residential buildings and sits on the north slope of South Mountain overlooking Bethlehem's Southside. This campus was named after the university's founder: Asa Packer. The campus has expanded many times during Lehigh's history, including the purchase of additional land and the construction of many of the existing buildings on the campus that have been acquired and then converted for various university uses. During recent years, several buildings have been constructed, expanded, or renovated and there have been efforts to improve traffic flow and pedestrian areas on and around the campus.

Alumni Memorial Building (1925) The Alumni Memorial Building is a Gothic building near the center of campus, housing the Visitor Center, the Office of Admissions, the Alumni Association, and the Office of the President. The building is a memorial to the 1,921 Lehigh alumni who served in World War I and the 46 who died. Plaques commemorating those who served appear in the building's lobby. The building was meticulously conceived and designed by Lehigh alumni Theodore G. Visscher and James Lindsey Burley as an "architecturally unique memorial", according to Lehigh biographer W. Ross Yates. It took five years to complete. The building's signature ivy was quietly removed in 2020 while the campus was shut down for the COVID-19 pandemic, the school never commented on why it was removed.

Brodhead House (1979) Brodhead is an air-conditioned six-story high-rise building with an elevator. These four-person suites house 194 second-year students and students living in two themes of the Upper Class Experience Residential Communities. Each suite has two double bedrooms or one double and two single bedrooms, and all suites have a furnished common area and a private bathroom.

Business Innovation Building (2023) Lehigh's newest building, the Business Innovation Building was first planned in 2017 as an expansion for the growing College of business. 74,000 square feet and consists of 16 classrooms, study space, a mock trading floor, the "Center for Business Communication" as well as the Lehigh Business LUminaries exhibit, a celebration of successful College of Business alumni.

Campus Square / Farrington Square (2002) The northern edge of campus, Farrington Square consists of apartment style undergraduate housing, the university bookstore, retail space, and a parking garage. Its architecture reflects some changing attitudes towards South Bethlehem by breaking the tradition of creating a visual wall between the campus and city. Instead, a plaza of buildings now opens out to the city along the New Street corridor at 4th street, and directly into Bethlehem. Originally named Campus Square beginning with its construction in 2000, the square, in 2015, was dedicated to Gregory Farrington, the 12th president of Lehigh University from 1998 to 2006, who was instrumental in the building's construction.

Centennial Complex (1965, 1971) The six "Upper Centennials", which include the Congdon, Emery, Leavitt, McConn, Smiley, and Thornburg building, were built in 1965 for the university's 100th anniversary. They were upper-class residences, which selectively recruited rising freshman to join them. The Centennials competed in intramurals, had social dues and parties, elected officers, and had a similar structure to the Greek fraternities. They proved so popular that construction of six more was started in 1969, and were named the "Lower Centennials", including Beardslee, Carothers, Palmer, Stevens, Stoughton, and Williams. However, the introduction of co-education resulted in three of the new ones becoming Lehigh's first female residences in 1971 and the remaining three becoming non-selective men's residences. Today, the buildings act as co-ed dormitories for freshman students.

Chandler-Ullmann Hall (1883, 1938) These adjoining buildings used to be the William H Chandler Chemistry Building (1883) and the Harry M. Ullmann Chemistry Laboratory (1938). William Chandler was appointed as professor of chemistry in 1871 and retired in 1905; during this time he guided the department and gained a national reputation for his work. The building was home to the Department of Chemistry until it moved into the new Seeley G. Mudd Building in 1976. Beginning in 1976, it housed the Department of Art, Architecture and Design and the Department of Psychology. In 2019, after an extensive $31 million interior renovation, the Department of Mathematics moved into the building, which it now shares with the Department of Psychology. The structure is considered by some architectural historians to be the first "modern" laboratory because of its system of ventilation and the design of its laboratories. The building, which won a prize for design at the Paris Exposition of 1889, was designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society in 1994.

Christmas-Saucon Hall (1866, 1872) Christmas Hall is the oldest structure on the Lehigh University campus and pre-dates the founding of the university.

In 1864, before plans for the university were drawn up, Asa Packer sold a lot on what would soon become Lehigh's campus, to a group of Moravians. They quite promptly erected a stone church, and services were commenced before the year was out. However, the young group soon received notification of Asa Packer's plans to found a university on the land all around the young Church. After negotiations, the Moravians agreed to move, provided another suitable plot of land was granted them. This was accomplished with the donation to the university, by the Augustus Wolfe Co., of land to the north of Packer Avenue. The converted Moravian Church did provide a building where instruction could proceed immediately. On September 3, 1866, rather than 1867 or 1868 as initially planned, the first classes were held here, with the school having admitted 39 young men.

The building served many functions in the first years, including those of a chemical laboratory, a library, chapel, classroom space, dorm rooms, and the president's office. With the university quickly growing, in 1872 Saucon Hall was built 50 feet to the east of Christmas Hall. In 1906, the newly formed marching band met here. And a half century later, the two structures would be integrated with the construction of a hyphen in 1927. It was home to the Mathematics Department until 2019, when it was moved to Chandler-Ullman Hall. It currently houses the study abroad offices, the LGBT Pride Center, the Multicultural Center and offices, The SOuRCe resource center, Center for Gender Equity, Student Involvement, Community Services, First Year Experiences, Student Center Facilities, Health Advancement and Prevent Strategies, Zoellner Art Center, and some lingering math classrooms.

Coppée Hall (1883) Built to accommodate the gymnasium, it had a bowling alley on its ground floor and gymnasium space on the second floor. With the opening of Taylor Gym in 1914, Coppée Hall became the new home of the department of Arts and Sciences (now the College of Arts and Sciences after colleges were established in 1918) which now resides in Maginnes Hall. The College of Arts and Sciences moved out in 1918 and was replaced by the College of Business Administration (today the College of Business), which called Coppée home until 1957. Renovated in spring 2003 it currently houses the Department of Journalism and Communication with the first floor housing classrooms, the second floor offices, and the third floor being the home of the university newspaper The Brown and White. It is constructed of Potsdam sandstone, with facings in stone of a lighter hue. It was planned by Addison Hutton, architect, of Philadelphia, valuable assistance in the elaboration of the details being rendered by Dr. Sargent of Cambridge. The building was named in honor of Lehigh's first president and professor of the arts, Henry Coppée.

Coxe Hall (1910) Named after Eckley Brinton Coxe, it was built as a mining laboratory. The construction was funded by his wife Sophia G. Coxe. Both Eckley B. (an early member of the board of trustees) and wife Sophia, were major contributors to the university, notably so during the difficult times of the 1890s. The building completed massive renovations in 2004 and was turned into the Baer International Center, housing the ESL Department, the Global Union, and the Study Abroad offices.

Drown Hall (1908) Drown Hall was built as the student center; it became home of the business school prior to the development of Rauch Business Center. It is now the home of the English Department. Drown Hall also has a student writing and math help center on the first floor. It was named after university president Thomas Messinger Drown.

Mart Library (1969) and E.W. Fairchild-Martindale Library (1985) A high technology edifice near Farrington Square, is of modern design and houses science and engineering collections, the Media Center, library and technology services staff, a computer center, and the Digital Media Studio. The original southern half of the Fairchild-Martindale library is the Mart Science and Engineering Library, constructed in 1969, as its name suggest acting as the university's Science and Engineering library, while Linderman Library acted as the humanities library.

Mart Library was dedicated by Leon T. Mart, class of 1913, and his wife Clara W. Mart, with the library being a memorial for their son, Thomas L. Mart, class of 1951, who died in an auto accident in 1949. In 1984, a massive expansion to the library along with a large northern section and a connecting glass foyer to the Mart Library was announced. The new library complex would become known as the Fairchild-Martindale Library with the construction of the northern wing, and the adjoining foyer, costing $10.9-million and the new library was dedicated on October 18, 1985.

The Fairchild-Martindale library was named after E.W. Fairchild, founder of Fairchild Fashion Media, and was dedicated by Harry T. Martindale, class of 1927 and vice president of Fairchild Media, and his wife Elizabeth Fairchild, E.W. Fairchild's daughter. The southern wing still bears the Mart Library name, despite any distinction of the libraries being lost.

Fritz Engineering Laboratory (1910, 1955)