Old North Campus, University of Georgia

Old North Campus is the historic heart of the University of Georgia in Athens. Entered through an iron arch erected in 1858, the seven-acre district is arranged around two quadrangles and a green near Broad Street, shaded by oaks, magnolias and elms. Old College, built 1801-05, was the first permanent building. Later structures include Waddel Hall, New College, Demosthenian Hall, the Chapel, Phi Kappa Hall, Lustrat House, Moore College and the Academic Building of 1903, spanning Federal, Greek Revival, Second Empire and Neo-Classical styles. The university, chartered in 1785 as the first state-chartered university in America, gave rise to the town of Athens, which was incorporated in 1806. Figures such as Alexander Stephens, Crawford W. Long, Robert Toombs and Henry W. Grady are linked to its halls and literary societies. The area remained the center of the university well into the twentieth century and is still regarded as its heart.