Widney Alumni House is the regions oldest campus building & the University of Southern California (USC)'s first building which has been moved three times since it was originally built. Dedicated on September 4, 1880, this original building of the University of Southern California has been continuously in use for educational purposes since October 6, 1880, when its doors were first opened to students by the university's first president, Marion McKinley Bovard. The building was constructed under the guiding hand of Judge Robert M. Widney, the university's leading founder, on land donated by Ozro W. Childs, John G. Downey, and Isaias W. Hellman. Built among mustard fields on what was then the western edge of the city of Los Angeles, Widney Alumni House (then called Widney Hall), the building, to which early students made their way by horse-drawn streetcars.
http://alumni.usc.edu/about/ 635 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089