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  Purposed Campus Plan   c. 1930?

A number of early campus plans included raising the central tower and north wing of Old Main and construction of new buildings.  Below is an architectural drawing taken from an early (1930s?) college yearbook, The Danian.  The design, by noted Omaha master architect John Latenser was Georgian Colonial type of architecture with stately columns making the portico entrance and cupolas on the roof center.  (This design for this building was much like Latenser's design for the class room building on the campus of UNO.   Photo of UNO building |  more about the UNO building

The proposed new main hall of Dana College Estimated cost of the building is $150,000.  The new building will adequately care for 250 students.  Modern, well-ventilated classrooms, science laboratories and a green house will be a part of the many features of this building.  There will be spacious reading rooms, faculty offices, fireproof stack rooms with a capacity of 56,000 volumes, vaults for rare books and church archives, a large lecture room with space for 225 table chairs.  The New Main Hall will include the old south wing (remodeled) and will form a U providing an inside court 115 by 51 feet.  It will have an unexcelled view over nearly 100 square miles of the Missouri River Valley, extending to the bluffs on the Iowa side.  It will fulfill the hopes of many years.