History of the UW School of Pharmacy Building

from: Centennial Celebration, September 27, 1986

The increasing importance of health sciences to the people of Wyoming culminated in the 1967 construction of the School of Pharmacy established within the College of Health Sciences. Today facilities of the school augment the other science missions of the university. The south facade of the building was originally planned to open onto a courtyard following removal of the old Agricultural Hall. Plans changed, however, and the hall became the Biochemistry Building, providing a closed connection between the chemistry laboratory needs of agriculture, the arts and sciences, and health sciences.

R.W. Schropfer and Henry Therkildsen, University of Wyoming architectural engineering graduates, designed the Pharmacy Building. The contemporary styling is a modern, somewhat experimental, adaptation of Beaux arts tradition that blends well with the Western Research Institute Building to the North as well as with the much older Biochemistry Building to the south. The use of native stone materials and glass panels is in keeping with other buildings on the west end of the campus.