In 1949 legislative assembly appropriated $400,000 for an additional engineering building. The new building permitted increased opportunities for better instruction with expanding facilities (Thirtieth Biennial Report, NDAC, 1948-50, p.17). The new engineering building was completed in 1952.
The building was originally referred to as the North Engineering Building. It contained offices and classrooms for those associated with the School of Engineering in a section measuring 65 feet by 130 feet. It also contained three units measuring 90 feet by 165 and each housed a machine shop, an internal combustion laboratory, testing laboratory, and civil engineering laboratory. Adjacent to the new building was a quonset style building, which housed the aeronautical engineering laboratory (NDAC Catalog, 1954-55, p. 36).
In 1954, the building was renamed Dolve Hall in honor of Robert M. Dolve, Dean of the School of Engineering. Dolve was a 1905 graduate of the NDAC with a bachelor of science degree in engineering. In 1906, Dolve worked with the United States Geological Survey before returning to NDAC. From 1906 to 1926, he was an instructor in engineering until becoming Dean in 1926. Dolve served as Dean from 1926 until his retirement in 1954.
In 1963 plans were made for an annex to Dolve Hall. The Engineering Department debated between building two more stories onto Dolve or attaching it to the other engineering buildings as a way of relieving administrative problems (Spectrum, April 3, 1963, p. 1). The Spectrum does not say what the final plans were, but today Dolve Hall is a two-story structure that is linked with the other engineering buildings.
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