Leroy E. Cowles Building

LeRoy Cowles drew the hardest possible hand: he was running the university when Pearl Harbor emptied it. Enrollment fell by a third almost overnight as the young men shipped out, then came roaring back after the war as the GIs returned on the new education bill. His name went, in 1980, onto one of the four original 1901 buildings—first the campus library, and since 1951 the home of the mathematics department. A wartime president honored on a building that has spent seventy years doing quiet, exact work.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Red Butte Garden — 1.2 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 1.4 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 1.9 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Liberty Park — 2.0 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882

More markers nearby

• John A. Widtsoe Building — steps away
• John Rockey Park Statue — steps away
• James E. Talmage Building — steps away
• U.S.S. Utah Bell and Plaque — steps away