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reactivated, with the goal of developing a center, and in 1991 a Mari Sandoz
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Exhibits both indoors and outdoors describe the botany of the region. Sandoz's younger sister Flora Rosa Sandoz was a trained botanist, who spent most of her life in the
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National Register of Historic Places under the collective designation "Chadron State College Historic Buildings TR". The other two, Administration and Hildreth, had been too much altered for
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Nebraska State Teachers College at Chadron; in 1963, it was given its current name of Chadron State College.
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the gymnasium, now Miller Hall, built in 1920; the "training school", now the
Hildreth Education Building, built in 1926; a library, built in 1929; a new women's dormitory, Women's Hall, now Edna Work Hall, built in 1932; and Crites Hall, built in 1938.
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