Norton Geology Center and Anderson Museum (1905)
Cornell established a Geology Department before any other college in Iowa. The building was named for Dr. William
Harmon Norton, Cornell's first geology professor and curator of
its original museum. It was built in the design of a Carnegie Library
such as can be found in towns across America.
The Russell and Elizabeth Anderson Museum, on all three floors of the building, is open free of charge to the public. An extensive collection of geological books, maps and periodicals and more than 20,000 specimens of rocks, minerals and fossils are stored here.