975 University Ave. Built 1991-93, Opened October 9, 1993
Construction included the largest excavation in Madison's history, requiring the removal of
13,000 truckloads of dirt. The building has 800 doors, 265,000 bricks and 1 million square feet
of drywall.
2007 Addition
History of the Grainger site:
Squalor House Marker
A group of student residents of an old house located on the Grainger Hall site in the 1960s
decided to mark its place in campus history with a stone inscribed with “Squalor House, 1967-1968.”
they placed the stone in just about the spot where the house's kitchen had been. The “Grainger Hall
Addition Project” on the rest of the block adjacent to Grainger Hall, forced the stone marker to
be removed. What happened to it?
Bank & Rennebohm's Drugstore
On the corner of University Avenue & Park Street was
Universtiy Avenue National Bank. The bank had two
distinctive Bucky Badger clocks
(One now placed on the building at 21
North Park Street) that long time Madisonians will remember seeing while driving through the
intersection.
The old Rennebohm's drugstore was adjacent to the old bank building on the west.
2007 Addition