Photo by Lydia Parker, April 2019

Arnold Dining Center was constructed in 1972 and remodeled in 2010. Benjamin L. Arnold served as the second president of Oregon Agricultural College from 1872 to 1892. Arnold constructed a curriculum structure, dividing studies into two departments, literary and scientific. Each department contained corresponding schools. He also guided the college through challenging financial times in the 1870s and 1880s, instituted the military training program (as mandated by the Morrill Act) in 1872 and wrote the first agricultural research report in 1873.

Oregon Digital: Contains a few historic photographs as well as articles written about the dining center.