Situated in the southern portion of the city of Kirksville, Truman's main campus is situated around a Quad.Buildings on the Quad include the new Baldwin Hall, Pickler Memorial Library, the Kirk
Memorial, Kirk Building (the oldest building on campus, built in 1922), and Ophelia Parrish (visual and performing arts
educational facility). Other structures are generally situated behind or near buildings on the Quad, and these include the
Missouri Hall dormitory, the Blanton-Nason-Brewer Hall complex dormitory, the Dobson Hall dormitory, Violette Hall (educational
facility), a Career and Health Center, and Magruder Hall (a newly renovated science facility).Four university buildings are situated along the border of the traditional university on Franklin Street to the west,
including Barnett Hall (science and nursing education facility), Centennial Hall dormitory, the Student Union building, and
McClain Hall (administration and education facility). To the south of the original campus includes Ryle Hall dormitory, Fair
Apartments (including a small convenience store operated by campus food service, Sodexho), E.C. Grim Hall dormitory, and the Pershing Building athletic facility.
Dormitories
In the 1960s the university built Dobson Hall (1961), Ryle Hall (1963), Missouri Hall (1965) and Centennial Hall (1967). There
are two other dormitories on campus: Blanton-Nason-Brewer (1948) and Ezra C. Grim
Hall.Dobson Hall is coed by wing and houses roughly 400 students who share community bathrooms. Each floor is equipped with a
lounge and a kitchenette (except first floor). There is a pool table and foosball table on the first floor. Mail is distributed
in a common mail-box area and packages are picked up by residents at the hall desk. The hall houses a computer lab and in-house laundry facilities. It does not have a cafeteria, so
students usually travel to nearby Ryle Hall for meals, though some travel to Missouri Hall or to Centennial Hall. Dobson has an
in-house radio station (Dobson Radio) that broadcasts to the university.Ryle Hall is the second-largest dormitory and Centennial Hall is the largest. These similar coed dorms house nearly 600
students in suite-style rooms, with generally two rooms, or four people, sharing one bathroom. Floors three, four, and five
feature kitchenettes, and every floor except the first has a lounge. Ryle also has a spacious main lounge that is often used for
small on-campus events. The two dorms also feature dining rooms, computer labs, mailboxes, vending machines, laundry rooms, and
each also has a classroom used by the Residential College Program. The primary difference between the two dorms is that Ryle's
cafeteria is located on the first floor, beneath their large lounge area. Centennial's slightly smaller cafeteria bisects the
second floor, and the smaller lounge area sits directly below.Missouri Hall is co-ed, and houses over 600 students. The building contains a cafeteria that serves Missouri Hall residents
and residents from across the campus.