LEONARD HALL -- The hall was named after Arthur Gray Leonard, who was the Sate Geologist of North Dakota and Assistant professor. Leonard, became the State Geologist of North Dakota and assistant professor in the Fall of 1903, and served the University for nearly 30 years.

The exterior of Leonard Hall is decorated with figures of a volcano, patterned after the active Mount Mayon in the Phillippines, and a Apatosaurus, more popularly known as a Brontosaurus.

Located in the main floor lobby of Leonard Hall a 70 million year old skull of a triceratops that over seven feet long and four feet wide. The dinosaur skull was excavated from the Hell Creek rock formation 15 miles north of Marmarth, N.D. in 1964. The skull was restored in 1978 by UND faculty and students.