Morgridge Book

Growth requires change, so as the university evolved, some of the existing neighborhoods had to make way. The affected Langdon Street houses included (left to right) the president’s house, attorney John Olin’s house, war hero and politician George Raymer’s house, and Dean E. A. Birge’s home. The president’s house, located on the corner of Park and Langdon, became the site for the Union Theater. The Olin house went on to become the UW Clinical Laboratory. The Raymer house became the student health clinic/infirmary, and the Birge house was demolished in order to build the YMCA in 1906.