Audio tour Old College Historic District Tour

This walking tour celebrates the bicentennial of the Old College building and was designed to accompany the Old College Exhibition of Spring 2025. While the tour does describe some of the architectural features of the Old College building, it also places the building within the context of the larger Old College Historic District and sheds light on the longer history of this important area in Newark.

The Old College Historic District includes six buildings (Old College, Recitation Annex, Recitation Hall, Alumni Hall, Elliott Hall, and Mechanical Hall). 

This walking tour will take you to all of them, and will show where they have changed over time while the landscape and viewscapes surrounding them have also changed. As we peel apart the different periods of construction and use of this segment of the University of Delaware campus, the cultural and educational values of the past and present will also be revealed. 

To utilize the walking tour, follow the numbers around the Old College Historic District, read or listen to the stories, and examine the pictures that represent the architectural and landscape features and the overall site context.

When you are done reading the info on a tour stop, take your chances in completing a mini-quiz!

Instructions for phone-based tour: Scan the QR code, and it will prompt you to download the izi.travel app onto your phone (free). When downloaded, select the Old College Historic District tour. Pick a tour stop, and it will highlight that stop on the map in red, with the stop name at bottom. If you press on that stop name on bottom of the screen, it will take you to the written text for the tour, with the photos at top, and a link to the quiz you can take for that stop. Press on the arrow to hear the narration. At the pauses, swipe to the next photo (the written text also shows where to move to a new photo).