North Manchester isn’t close to a major interstate highway, so I took a “scenic” drive to get there for this visit. In addition to this being my first visit to North Manchester, it also was my first visit to Lapel, Elwood, Swayze and Wabash, communities that pop up along Indiana Highway 13 on the drive north. Highway 13 was the route I chose to get to Manchester University from the southside of Indianapolis.
In all, students can choose from 78 major fields of study and 34 minors as well as associate degrees in two fields of study, master's degrees in five fields of study and a doctorate in pharmacy.
If you read the history of Manchester University, you find that the institution dates to the 1800s, starting as a seminary by the United Brethren Church in Roanoke, Ind., before changing its name to Manchester College when it moved to its current location in 1889. This is impressive because the campus has a striking mix of new and well-preserved old buildings. And it has lots of tall trees.
The school, in 1948, became the first institution of higher education in the U.S. to implement an undergraduate peace studies major. It opened a satellite campus in Fort Wayne in 2012 to house a state-of-the-art pharmacy school. It is the first school to offer a master's degree program in pharmacogenomics, the study of the role of the genome in drug response.
Manchester University, as of 2024, has an $79.85 million, according to College Raptor.
The campus probably is the most compact of those I've visited; I managed to reach most of what I had hoped to photograph in an hour and a half's time. I couldn't get all of the landscape images I wanted to take at most other places I've visited in the game day project.
This school's origin is rooted in religion, as is the case with many small institutions of higher learning in Indiana, so it was not surprising, at least not to me, that Petersime Chapel is the visual heart of campus. I elected to use a photo of the chapel as the image to lead off this post.
Petersime Chapel is at the south end of a long green mall, opposite Cordier Auditorium. Anchoring one perpendicular side of the mall is the Funderburg Library and Science Center/Flory Auditorium, while the other is lined by the welcome and academic centers, Wine Recital and Otho Winger Memorial halls.
The stately administration building is a bit off the campus beaten path, on College Avenue, flanked by Oakwood Hall on one side and Hellman Hall and Wampler Auditorium on the other. By the time I reached Wampler, it occurred to me that Manchester has a lot of auditoriums!
This school's origin is rooted in religion, as is the case with many small institutions of higher learning in Indiana, so it was not surprising, at least not to me, that Petersime Chapel is the visual heart of campus. I elected to use a photo of the chapel as the image to lead off this post.
Petersime Chapel is at the south end of a long green mall, opposite Cordier Auditorium. Anchoring one perpendicular side of the mall is the Funderburg Library and Science Center/Flory Auditorium, while the other is lined by the welcome and academic centers, Wine Recital and Otho Winger Memorial halls.
The stately administration building is a bit off the campus beaten path, on College Avenue, flanked by Oakwood Hall on one side and Hellman Hall and Wampler Auditorium on the other. By the time I reached Wampler, it occurred to me that Manchester has a lot of auditoriums!
All of the buildings I've mentioned up to this point are on the west side of East Street, which serves as a sort of unofficial division of both what's new and old at Manchester, as well as a demarcation of academic and sports/recreation facilities ... with a couple of residence halls thrown in for good measure. There are no fraternities or sororities at Manchester.
At the heart of the east side of campus is Jo Young Switzer Center, formerly called the student center, a multi-functional facility that houses the campus store and post office as well as dining services and a snack bar and meeting quarters for the school’s 1,175 students.
At the heart of the east side of campus is Jo Young Switzer Center, formerly called the student center, a multi-functional facility that houses the campus store and post office as well as dining services and a snack bar and meeting quarters for the school’s 1,175 students.
Also east of East are the Physical Education and Recreation Center and Stauffer-Wolfe Arena, as well as the outdoor athletic facilities, including tennis courts, football and track fields, baseball and softball diamonds, soccer fields ... and even a mud volleyball court. Quite a ways apart from the aforementioned facilities, on the northeast side of campus, is Charles S. Morris Observatory, an astronomical observatory built in 1973.
And in a parking lot right off East Street there were a handful of spots (at least there were in 2016) reserved for electric cars to plug in for charging. That’s one spot in the first picture below.
To view a full gallery of shots of the school's campus, follow the link in this sentence.
The welcome center (above) and recital hall (below) are next to each other on East Street, directory across from the Jo Young Switzer Center (second below).
Above: A paved walk directly across East Street from the Jo Young Switzer Center leads pedestrians to the green mall, where one finds the chapel (top of post), Funderburg Library (above) and Cordier Auditorium (below).
Above: A look at the trees and paths at the south end of the green mall. This view looks toward College Avenue and the backside of (I think) the Administration Building.
Above: A closeup of the landscaping and ornamentation in front of Petersime Chapel.
Above: More trees and paths, this time looking east at the south end of the green mall.
Above: Still more trees and the side of (I think) the Administration Building.
Alternate views of Funderburg Library (above) and Wine Recital Hall (below).
An example of landscaping in the green mall (above) and the campus map (below).
Above: At the opposite end of the parking lot you see in the Science Hall photo above this is this tree, just starting to show autumn colors.
Above: The back side of Calvin Ulrey Hall, which houses campus health and counseling services and human resource operations, among other things.
Above: Yet another tree shot, looking in the general direction of the green mall from College Avenue.
Above: An access to Hellman Co-Ed Residence Hall along College Avenue.
Above and below: Two views of the Administration Building fronting College Avenue.
Above: The campus Intercultural Center, the hub for the African Students Association, Asian Awareness Association, Black Student Union, Hispanos Unidos and Manchester University International Association.
Above: A row of bikes outside of East Hall on the east side of East Street at College Avenue.
Above and below: Two views of the outside of the Physical Education and Recreation Center (PERC) and Stauffer-Wolfe Arena.
Above: A look through the foliage with PERC on the right.
Exiting the PERC, one gets the view above of the campus. When you reach the "Y" portion of the walk above then turn around and look back, you get the view below of PERC on the left.
At the "Y" of the walk extending from PERC (above), the straight-ahead view is of the Jo Young Switzer Center, with a closer backside view of the center below.
If you turn right at the "Y," you'll reach Gratz Field, where the Spartan baseball team plays its home games (below).
Spectators at baseball games can see the back of Burt Memorial Stadium (above) along the right field line. to the left, is the bulk of the campus behind the Gratz Field press box.
Above: The walk back to campus from Burt Memorial Stadium and Gratz Field.
Above: A handful of spectators setting up chairs behind the south end zone of Burt Memorial Stadium.
And in a parking lot right off East Street there were a handful of spots (at least there were in 2016) reserved for electric cars to plug in for charging. That’s one spot in the first picture below.
To view a full gallery of shots of the school's campus, follow the link in this sentence.
Above: A sidewalk down the east side of tree-lined East Street.
Above: The back side of Petersime Chapel.
Above and below: Two views of the Science Hall.
Above: One side of Schwalm Residence Hall.
Above: Oakwood Co-Ed Residence Hall.
Above: Still more trees and paths.
Next up: Chapter 27, Trine University vs. Olivet College, Oct. 2015
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