The University of Portland campus continues to grow. One hundred years ago life on the Bluff cycled through just three buildings: West, Christie, and Howard Halls. That was the story.
![Christie, West, and Howard Halls, 1938](https://sites.up.edu/museum/wp-content/uploads/sites/71/2014/08/1938-Christie-West-Howard-Halls-300x137.jpg)
Today the campus – upper and lower – is 150 acres, with 30+ buildings supporting and sheltering student life. So this brief, helpful orientation for new members of the University Community.
![Aerial View of Lund Bell Tower, 2014](https://sites.up.edu/museum/wp-content/uploads/sites/71/2014/07/Student-Affairs-Annual-Report-20141-150x150.jpg)
If you can hear the bell chimes of the Bell Tower, following the sound will lead you to Bauccio Commons and The Chapel of Christ the Teacher; the south corner of the academic quad where body and soul are nurtured and fed.
![Chiles Center with P Logo, 2008](https://sites.up.edu/museum/wp-content/uploads/sites/71/2014/08/Chiles-Center-2008-Logo-P-dome-150x150.jpg)
If you look up and see a purple P against a white background, you are at the sports and practice fields along Willamette Boulevard: the Chiles Center, Merlo Field, Prusynski pitch, for varsity and club sports.
If looking west from Etzel baseball field you see a gorilla on the horizon: well, some matters are beyond explanation. All anyone knows is that the gorilla has risen joyously above Villa Maria at the opening of the school year on and off since 1998.
![Villa Maria Hall Gorilla, 2012](https://sites.up.edu/museum/wp-content/uploads/sites/71/2014/08/Villa-Maria-Hall-2013-08-22-gorilla-1-Museum-Collection-300x225.jpg)
![St. John's Bridge, 1974](https://sites.up.edu/museum/wp-content/uploads/sites/71/2014/08/st-johns-bridge-1974-M2-150x150.jpg)
![St. John's Bridge, 1980](https://sites.up.edu/museum/wp-content/uploads/sites/71/2014/08/st-johns-bridge-1980-M5-150x150.jpg)
If you look up from green space into these marvelous arches, you are lost: off-campus, in Cathedral Park at the base of the St. John’s bridge.