The Campus Buildings Directory contains the proper names of all Lawrence campus buildings and landmarks and provides, where appropriate, mailing address, occupants, seating capacities for public spaces and a history of the building/landmark and its namesake (when available).
Sources include University Relations and University Archives records; the Web sites
"This Week in KU History" and
Historic Mount Oread Fund; the Lawrence Journal-World and KU Alumni Association publications; and personal interviews.
Texts consulted include "The University of Kansas: A History" by Clifford Griffin; "Across the Years on Mount Oread" by Robert Taft; "Historic Mount Oread" by Sandra Swanson Wiechert; and "On the Hill: A Photographic History of the University of Kansas" compiled by Virginia Adams, Katie Armitage, Donna Butler, Carol Shankel and Barbara Watkins.
If you spot an error or an oversight, please let us know. E-mail questions or comments to
erapport@ku.edu.
Evie Rapport, editor
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