Perhaps no other building on campus has undergone more metamorphoses than Fenton Hall. Opened in 1905, the building was named after William David Fenton, a judge and prominent Oregon attorney who donated the Kenneth Lucas Fenton Memorial Library to the School of Law in memory of his son. Fenton was built to house the university library, which until then was nomadic and had resided in Collier House, Friendly Hall, and various other campus buildings. In 1938 the library moved to its own, permanent home in the Knight Library and the School of Law moved in. Today the administrative and faculty offices of the Department of Mathematics are in Fenton Hall.