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On January 1, 1940, Close Hall had a devastating fire that caused irreparable damage. The building was reconstructed as a one-story building and maintained as the school of journalism and university publishing. After the university publishing left, Close Hall became an underused, gaudy building on a
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in 1896. The basement of the building housed the women's gymnasium as well as industrial chemistry labs. The first floor contained offices and recitation rooms, while the second floor housed literary societies as well as additional offices. The building became the first home of the
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Made of brick, construction of the building began in 1888 and completed in 1890 on land owned jointly by the university and Iowa City. The cost of construction was supplemented through a contribution of $ 10,000 by Mrs.
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valuable piece of property. The university officially closed the building in 1968 and over the course of the following two years demolished the structure.
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would be printed. Close Hall would remain the home of the school of journalism as well as the university press room until the late 1950s.
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Today, the University of Iowa's Biology Building East stands on the Close Hall former site at Dubuque Street and Iowa Avenue.
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and would house the campus typesetting machines and printing presses. It would be from these presses that
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team in its early years. The team would move to the first Iowa Armory in 1905.
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Eventually the building would become the school of journalism for the
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Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development
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is a former multi-purpose facility on the campus of the
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