Old University Library


The Old University Library in Lincoln, Nebraska is a historic three-and-a-half story building on the campus of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. It was built with red bricks in 1891, and designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by Mendelssohn, Fisher & Lawrie. When it was dedicated in 1895, it housed the university library, an art gallery, and the Nebraska State Historical Society. By the 1970s, it housed the Department of Architecture. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 6, 1975.