Campus Buildings Directory

900 Sunnyside Ave. 66045
2 floors, basement

The center, dedicated April 9, 2005, incorporates nine limestone arches and the walls from KU’s oldest surviving structure, the 1887 Powerhouse designed by John G. Haskell. The center includes a 120-seat conference room, seminar room and offices for Hall Center staff and research fellows. It was built with a $4.07 million gift from the Hall Family Foundation and state and private funds.

Founded in 1976 by the Kansas Board of Regents, the Center for Humanistic Studies at the University of Kansas became the Hall Center for the Humanities in 1983. Between 1984 and 2005, it was based in the Watkins Home.

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See also: Watkins Home

See: Moore Hall

Center for the Performing Arts
1632 Engel Road 66045
8 floors
370 men and women

This 1962 Daisy Hill residence hall, named for Margaret Battenfeld Hashinger, houses about 370 men and women since major renovations in 2005-06. It has a performing-arts focus and offers studio, rehearsal and performance space for residents.

Hashinger, who died in 1965, was a major KU benefactor. In 1940 she and her first husband, J.R. Battenfeld of Kansas City, donated the funds for constructing and maintaining Battenfeld Scholarship Hall in memory of their son John Curry Battenfeld; the family also funded an auditorium at KU Medical Center in memory of son Jesse R. Jr., a physician and 1937 alumnus killed in World War II. In 1952 she married Dr. Edward Hashinger, a longtime member of the KU medical school faculty.

See also: Battenfeld Scholarship Hall

1200 Sunnyside Ave. 66045
10 floors

Pronounced: HAH-worth

The first Haworth Hall opened in fall 1909 and housed the departments of geology and mineralogy, whose chair 1892-1920 was Erasmus Haworth. An 1881 and 1884 alumnus who founded the Kansas Geological Survey in 1894, Haworth who was known to his students as “Daddy.”

After the 1943 opening of Lindley Hall, Haworth was remodeled for the departments of anatomy, biochemistry and physiology. When the medical programs moved to Kansas City, Kan., biology and other sciences remained. In the late 1960s, when a humanities building was planned on the site, Haworth and its neighbor Robinson Gymnasium — both outdated and outgrown — were razed and new buildings retaining their names were built on the south slope of the Hill.

State Architect James Canole and Peters, Harrison & Associates of Lawrence designed the eight-story, $3.5 million building of dark buff brick and cottonwood limestone for the newly created Division of Biological Sciences. It opened in 1969; a major addition designed by Peters, Kubota & Glenn of Lawrence was dedicated April 12, 1986.

A reorganization in 2008 dissolved the division and retained these units in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: the department of molecular biosciences (biochemistry; microbiology; molecular, cellular and developmental biology; neurobiology; and genetics); the department of ecology and evolutionary biology (programs in ecology and population biology, entomology, plant biology and systematics, macroevolution and biodiversity); and the undergraduate biology program.

Haworth houses the departments’ administrative and staff offices; a greenhouse and electron microscope; laboratories, classrooms and an auditorium; the Genetics Program; and the Beach Center on Disability.

The John T. Stewart Children’s Center, dedicated in September 1970, adjoins Haworth on the east; it is named for a 1911 alumnus and Wellington banker and was the gift of his son and daughter-in-law, John T. III and Linda Bliss Stewart, also alumni. It houses offices for the Sunnyside Infant-Toddler Center and the Schiefelbusch Life Span Institute, laboratories, graduate-student offices and research rooms.

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See also: Dole Human Development Center; Wescoe Hall

2101 Constant Ave. 66047
1 floor, basement
Pronounced: Tah-KAY-roo Hih-GOO-chee

Named for Takeru Higuchi, Regents Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy 1967-87, the building was completed in 1969; major renovations were done in 1989. It now houses the Kansas Biological Survey (KBS), a research and service unit whose programs and activities range from aquatic and terrestrial ecology to remote sensing.

KBS research units housed in Higuchi include the Central Plains Center for Biological Assessment, the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program; the KU Field Station; the Natural Heritage Inventory; and Reservoir Assessment.

21st and Constant Avenue
Pronounced: Hih-GOO-chee

The west campus complex is named for Takeru Higuchi, Regents Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy 1967-87, who oversaw the area’s growth. Its centerpiece is the Higuchi Biosciences Center, a “center without walls” that conducts interdisciplinary research in bioanalytical chemistry, drug delivery, neurobiology, immunology, drug discovery and combinatorial chemistry. It is a KU Center for Research Designated Research Center, which oversees grants management and research administration; and a Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. Center of Excellence, which oversees technology-based economic development and applied research.

The buildings at the research area include the Dolph Simons Sr. Biosciences Research Laboratories, McCollum Laboratories, the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Laboratories and Smissman Research Laboratories.

See also: Dolph Simons Sr. Biosciences Research Laboratories; McCollum Laboratories; Pharmaceutical Chemistry Laboratories; Smissman Research Laboratories

1605 Irving Hill Road 66045
Child Care Drive
1 floor
Approximately 260 pupils

This $3.3 million, 18,000-square-foot facility opened south of Burge Union in August 2000. It offers day care and educational programs for toddlers through sixth-graders on site as well as programs at three Lawrence elementary schools. Children of students, faculty, staff and affiliates may enroll.

In summer 2009, construction was completed on the second of two new wings. The first, the east wing, has three classrooms and was finished in August 2008. The south wing has two rooms for preschool and kindergarten pupils. Student fees and university funds largely funded the new facilities, which increased enrollment by about 85 pupils.

Hilltop was established in the Wesley Building behind Smith Hall in August 1972 after protests led by the February Sisters demanded better campus services for women, including child care.

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See also: Wesley Building

1545 Allen Fieldhouse Drive 66045

Pronounced: HOE-glund

The first baseball field on this site south of Allen Fieldhouse, built in 1958, was named for Earnest Q. Quigley, KU athletic director 1944-50, a National League umpire and a football and basketball official.

In 1987, major renovations including a new press box, restrooms, concession stands, computerized scoreboard and lighting were carried out, funded largely by gifts from Forrest Hoglund and from Neil Mecaskey in memory of his travel-agency partner Tom Maupin. Hoglund, a 1956 graduate in mechanical engineering who lettered in baseball, is an oil executive and with his wife and brother is a major benefactor to KU and the KU Medical Center.

The stadium was renamed Hoglund-Maupin Ballpark. Before the 1999 season, Hoglund gave $1.5 million of the $1.8 million needed for extensive renovations and improvements designed by the Lawrence firm of Glenn, Livingood & Penzler Architects, and the field was rededicated in his name. In 2006, an indoor facility costing $850,000 and paid for by alumni donations was completed next to right field.

On Jan. 14, 2009, the 4,000-square-foot McCarthy Family Clubhouse behind the dugout on the first-base side opened. It comprises a locker room, training room, cardio room, players’ lounge, and study area. It is named for Kent McCarthy and his family, major donors to the $2 million project. The ballpark seating capacity is 2,000, and field dimensions are 330-392-300 feet.