{"id":687,"date":"2019-05-02T18:04:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T22:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/?p=687"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:00:56","slug":"alfriend-chemistry-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/2019\/05\/02\/alfriend-chemistry-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfriend Building"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alfriend Chemistry Building, December 1967<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The\u00a0Alfriend Building, <\/strong>previously known as the Alfriend Chemistry Building<\/strong>,\u00a0was located between\u00a0Webb University Center<\/strong> and\u00a0Mills Godwin Life Sciences Building (MGB)<\/strong><\/a> on the campus of\u00a0Old Dominion University (ODU)<\/strong>. The building was named after John S. Alfriend, a member of President Lewis W. Webb, Jr.’s Advisory Board<\/strong><\/a> from 1947 to 1962 and president of the Old Dominion Educational Foundation. From 1967 to 2021, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry<\/strong> had their offices in Alfriend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Construction on the building began in 1965 and was dedicated in 1967. Prior to 1967, the Department of Chemistry was housed in the old Science Building, now William B. Spong, Jr. Hall<\/strong><\/a>. In 2019, construction on the new Chemistry Building<\/strong><\/a> began and was completed in time for the start of the Fall 2021 semester. In October 2021, the building’s name was changed to the Alfriend Building. In July 2025, the building was demolished to make way for a new\u00a0Biological Sciences Building<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resources<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Old Dominion University Photographic and Multimedia Collection<\/a>, Special Collections and University Archives, Perry Library, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 23529.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. ODU Photographic Collection<\/a>, Old Dominion University Libraries Digital Collections, Old Dominion University Libraries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Building the University<\/a>, Old Dominion University Libraries Digital Exhibit, 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    References<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    1. Bookman, Steven and Jessica Ritchie. Old Dominion University: A Campus History Series.  Arcadia Publishing. Charleston, South Carolina, 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The\u00a0Alfriend Building, previously known as the Alfriend Chemistry Building,\u00a0was located between\u00a0Webb University Center and\u00a0Mills Godwin Life Sciences Building (MGB) on the campus of\u00a0Old Dominion University (ODU). The building was named after John S. Alfriend, a member of President Lewis W. Webb, Jr.’s Advisory Board from 1947 to 1962 and president of the Old Dominion Educational… read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[2,6,8,11],"tags":[52,476,17,332,29,477,14,125,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/oduwiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}