Bloomington Indiana University Memorial Union (#0258)

Memorial Union, home of the student union cafeterias, book stores, and much, much more, was a center for much of daily life when I was at IU. That it was so central, that it was a massive, gorgeous, building (500,000 sq ft), and that it had such a long history for IU (dedicated in 1932) was all part of what it made it feel like I was finally at a university.

Unfortunately a movie was being shot in some of the best rooms when I was there this time, so I only have one interior shot (nearby to this picture), but the building has a number of elegant public rooms. Just one example was the Tudor dining room that felt like what would be a faculty club at another university, but was a public restaurant at IU. One of the links below has a picture of it.

The picture here is of one of the north entrances to the union, the building is so large, and surrounded by trees, that there is no way to get a picture that captures the building as a whole.


Tudor room: imu.indiana.edu/restaurants-services/tudor-room
History: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Memorial_Union