SOON AFTER THE UNITED STATES ENTERED THE FIRST WORLD WAR
IN 1917. THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY'S OFFER OF ITS CAMPUS AND
BUILDINGS FOR WAR WORK WAS ACCEPTED.
THE PERMANENT BUILDINGS AND PART OF THE CAMPUS WERE…
These trees uniquely named
recognize their origin.
Originally planted at this site
April 8, 1943 by Sungman
Rhee, independence leader and
first Korean President and
American University President
Dr. Paul F. Douglass, as…
This cornerstone was dedicated in a traditional
Masonic ceremony on March 1, 2011, in the
presence of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and
neighbors of American University, by Jesse
Villareal, Grand Master. Grand Lodge, Free
and Accepted…