Campus Buildings Directory

900 Sunnyside Ave. 66045-7622

The new center, dedicated April 9, 2005, incorporates limestone arches and walls from KU’s oldest surviving structure, the 1887 Powerhouse designed by John G. Haskell. It 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 66045-3897

This 1962 Daisy Hill residence hall, named for Margaret Battenfeld Hashinger, will house about 365 men and women after 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, donated the funds for constructing and maintaining Battenfeld Scholarship Hall in memory of their son John Curry; the family also funded an auditorium at KU Medical Center in memory of son J.R. Jr., a 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. 66045-7534

Pronounced: HAH-worth is preferred, although HAY-worth also is used

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 and 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the late 1960s, when a humanities building was planned on their site, Haworth and its neighbor Robinson Gymnasium—both outdated and outgrown—were razed and new buildings retaining their names were built on the south slope of the Hill.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 and 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 and Glenn of Lawrence was dedicated April 12, 1986.

The Division of Biological Sciences comprises the departments of molecular biosciences (biochemistry; microbiology; molecular, cellular and developmental biology; neurobiology; and genetics) and of ecology and evolutionary biology (undergraduate biology; graduate programs in ecology and population biology, entomology, plant biology and systematics, macroevolution and biodiversity).

Haworth also houses the division 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. 66047-3759

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; and the Kansas Field Station and Ecological Reserves and the Natural Heritage Inventory.

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 66045-7620
Child Care Drive

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 and programs at three Lawrence elementary schools. Children of students, faculty, staff and affiliates may enroll.

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

Allen Fieldhouse Complex

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 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 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 more extensive renovations and improvements, and the field was rededicated in his name. The Lawrence firm of Glenn, Livingood & Penzler Architects designed the new press box, expanded dugouts, additional restroom and a plaza entrance. Continuing improvements have included batting cages and bullpens. The seating capacity is 2,000, and field dimensions are 330-392-300 feet.