| From
the January 12, 2006, edition of “Northwest This Week.”
The Gaunt House
The following is excerpted
from “Transitions: A Hundred Years of Northwest” by
Dr. Janice Brandon-Falcone. An illustrated history of the University’s
first 100 years, “Transitions” is available from the
Bearcat Bookstore on the first floor of the J.W. Jones Student
Union. The book can also be purchased online at www.nwmissouri.bkstore.com
or by calling (660) 562-1246 (ext. 1246 on campus).
In fall 1905, the first duty of the
newly appointed Board of Regents was to acquire a site or sites
out of the several that had been proposed. As a result, the school
acquired not only land but some buildings as well, including the
Old Seminary and 10 acres. As the central site, the Board also
purchased the Thomas Gaunt property, which had been a nursery
on 21 acres and featured an outbuilding that could house a few
classes, and a handsome Georgian house that, with repair, would
be a residence for a century of school presidents. Additionally,
two parcels totaling 50 acres west of Gaunt’s property produced
an initial campus of 86 acres and two city blocks that connected
the main site with the Old Seminary site.
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