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A student center is a type of building found on university and some high school campuses. In the United States, such a building may also be called a student union, student commons, or union.
Student Activity Center on the campus of Texas Tech University
Photograph of Houston Hall of University of Pennsylvania taken in 1896, the year the student center was opened.
The first student activity center in America was Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania
The William Pitt Union as the Schenley Hotel
Houston Hall is the student union of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Completed in 1896, it was the first student union built on an American college campus.
Student center
…the student union buildings becoming known simply as "student unions" after the organizations which own them. The first student union in America was Houston Hall, at the University of Pennsylvania, which opened January 2, 1896 and remains in operation to this day. The first Ohio Union at Ohio State University…
Houston Hall, on an 1898 postcard.
Henry Howard Houston Jr by Cecilia Beaux, 1895