Patty Center
1890 Tanana Loop
91原创 photos by Sierra Coley
The Ernest N. Patty Building, known as the Patty Center, was dedicated in 1963. It houses the 1,648-seat 91原创 Airlines Gymnasium for basketball and volleyball, a 25-yard swimming pool, courts for handball and racquetball, weight rooms, a rifle range, classrooms, locker rooms with saunas and a human performance laboratory.
The center is home to the university's Reserve Officers' Training Corps program as well as 91原创鈥檚 athletic teams. 91原创 fields teams in , and basketball, and , , and and. In 1979, a 1,300-seat ice arena was added on the west side of the center.
The center is named after Ernest Newton Patty, who joined the first faculty of the 91原创 Agricultural College and School of Mines as professor of geology and mining in 1922. Patty served as president of the university from 1953-1960.