North Mall
The historic North Mall1, the first landscape project on campus, was designed by Charles “Chuck” Saladino, the first landscape architect licensed in the State of Nevada.
Purpose and scope of the collection
The North Mall combines with the East Mall and Xeric Garden to form the Arboretum Core and create the green heart of campus. The Mall is one of the most important heritage spaces on campus, as well as one of the most popular. The Mall was the first construction project on campus for a designed landscape.
Chuck Saladino was a pioneering landscape architect in Nevada who led efforts to recognize for landscape architects as highly educated design professionals equivalent to architects and engineers. His efforts resulted in passage of NRS 623A, the state law governing licensing of landscape architects as protectors of the safety, health and welfare of the public.
Collection — specific interpretations of this policy and special instructions
- Maintain the Mall in a manner true to the original design intent
- Retain its character-defining alleés and groves of shade trees, gently mounded turf, seating areas, and raised planters.
- Replace trees with the same species whenever possible, but take advantage of new construction to increase species diversity.
- Replace shrubs with the same or related species, as long as they maintain the original design intent.
- Wholesale changes to either the design or the planting plan are not permitted.
- All trees should be accessioned as individuals. Outside the Core, accession individual trees when they are part of a limited population of the species on campus.
- Only a few individual shrubs of each species should be accessioned, but they should be from different parts of the campus.
Programs supported by the collection
- UNLV Biology: BIO 345 Urban Horticulture, BIO 422 Taxonomy of Vascular Plants, BIO 426 Plant Anatomy, BIO 442 Principles of Plant Physiology
- UNLV Landscape Architecture: AAL 246 Plant Materials, AAL 355 History of Landscape Architecture, second through fifth-year design studios (AAL 284, AAL 286, AAL 384, AAL 386, AAL 484, AAL 486, AAL 494, AAL 496)
- CCSN Ornamental Horticulture: OH 103 Ornamental Plant Identification, OH 107B Landscape Materials, OH 203 Introduction to Plant Pathology and Landscape Pests, OH 205 Landscape Planning/Design, OH 213B Drought Tolerant Landscape Plant Identification
Collection data
Type of collection: Landscape
Year established: 1980s
Guidelines created: March 2006
Last revised: March 2006
Proposed by: 2003 Long Range Planning Team
Location: At the north end of campus, beginning at the Rose Garden and extending west to the Paul McDermott Physical Education Complex.
Size: TBD
Amenities: The Sycamore Grove, The Physics Garden, The AIDS Memorial Garden
Last inventoried: in progress
Number of species: n/a
Number of specimens: n/a
1Referred to as the East-West Mall in the 2002 Long-Range Plan
