List of University of Kentucky buildings
The University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky is home to many notable structures, including three high-rises.
By floor count and height above ground level, the tallest buildings are the 23-story Kirwan Tower and Blanding Tower, part of the Kirwan-Blanding Residence Hall complex. The 18-floor Patterson Office Tower sits on one of the highest points of the university, and so its top reaches a higher altitude. All three high-rises were built in the mid-1960s.
New developments
Recently constructed is a new parking structure for the Albert B. Chandler Hospital at South Limestone between Conn Terrace Transcript Avenue. The 1,600 space garage will be connected to the lobby of the new patient care facility via a skyway.
In the summer of 2010, Keeneland Hall, the first co-ed dormitory in the state, was named a state historic site by the Kentucky State Historical Society. This designation did not prevent it from being torn down in 2014 to make way for the new Limestone Park dormitory development.
Future
In the next twenty years, substantial housing will need to be completed[1] due to increased freshman enrollment and the deteriorated conditions of surrounding neighborhoods. By 2010, the university is currently planning to achieve 33% undergraduate housing, requiring the construction of an additional 2,500 units. By 2020, due to fast undergraduate growth, the university wants to raise the undergraduate housing percentage to at least 40%, requiring the construction of at least 2,800 additional units. The ratio of graduate students to graduate units in Cooperstown and Greg Page Apartments would also need to be increased from 11% to 15%. The existing facilities would also need to be replaced. By 2010, 350 new units would need to be constructed, followed by an additional 250 units by 2020.
In 2014, plans to replace most of the older north campus residence halls—specifically Boyd, Holmes, Keeneland, and Jewell Halls—with a new residential complex were approved.[2] New residence halls have also been planned[1] for the College of Agriculture campus along University Drive and Nicholasville Road between Cooper Drive and Alumni Drive, the Medical Center campus along Transcript Avenue, near the Johnson Student Recreation Center at Cooper Drive, at Stoll Field next to the current Student Center, within the College Town district north of Euclid Avenue, along Washington Avenue (to be converted into a pedestrian-only facility) and along Scott Street.
Greg Page Apartments
Completed in 1979,[1] Greg Page Apartments was the newest residence facility until Baldwin Hall, Ingles Hall, Roselle Hall (originally New North Hall) and Smith Hall opened in 2005. It was named after Greg Page, one of the first two African American football players at UK, who was paralyzed after a blow to the back in practice 1966 and died from the complications 38 days later.
Timeline
Image | Building | Campus | Floors | Year Completed[3] | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Maxwell Place | Central | 2.5 | 1872 [4] | Completed. | |
Hamilton House | North | 1880[5] | Completed. Demolished in fall 2014.[5] | ||
Main Building | Central | 5 | February 15, 1882 [6] | Completed | |
White Hall | Central | 1882 | Demolished in 1967. | ||
Neville Hall | Central | 1890 | Destroyed by fire in 1961. | ||
Mechanical Hall | Central | 1892 | Demolished in 1964. | ||
Gillis Building | Central | 1892 | Completed | ||
Miller Hall | Central | 3 + B | 1898 | Completed | |
Bolivar Arts Center | North | 1899, 1917, 2015 | Purchased by UK in 2013; became home of the School of Arts and Visual Studies during summer 2015.[7] | ||
Alumni Hall (Barker Hall & Buell Armory) | Central | 3 + B + Bell Tower | 1901, 1937 | Completed | |
Patterson Hall | North | 3 + B | 1904 | Completed | |
Scovell Hall | South | 1905 | Completed | ||
Education Building (Frazee Hall) | Central | 1907 | Completed | ||
Matthews Building | Central | 1907 | Completed | ||
Mining Laboratory (Engineering Annex) | Central | 1907 | Completed | ||
Carnegie Library[8] | Central | 1909 | Demolished in 1967 | ||
Pence Hall | Central | 3 + B | 1909 | Completed | |
Kastle Hall | Central | 3 + B | 1909, 1926 | Completed | |
Norwood Hall | Central | 1910 | Destroyed by fire 1948 | ||
Bradley Hall | Central | 1921 | Completed | ||
Alumni Gymnasium | North | 1924[9] | Completed | ||
McLean Stadium | North | 1924[9] | Demolished in 1974. | ||
Boyd Hall | North | 4 | 1925[10] | Completed. Demolished in 2014 for Limestone Park.[2][5] | |
McVey Hall | Central | 3 + B | 1928 | Completed | |
Memorial Hall | Central | 2 | 1929[9] | Completed | |
Taylor Education Building | Central | ca. 1930 | Completed | ||
Kinkead Hall | Central | 1930 | Completed | ||
Breckinridge Hall | Central | 1930 | Completed | ||
Thomas Poe Cooper Building | South | 1930 | Completed | ||
Margaret I. King Library | Central | 3 | 1931 | Completed | |
Lafferty Hall | Central | 1936 | Completed | ||
Student Union (Student Center) | North | 1938, 1963, 2018 | Completed. 1963 addition demolished in 2015 for an expansion project; the 1938 portion will remain intact with interior renovations and be incorporated into the new facility.[11] | ||
Jewell Hall | North | 4 | 1939 | Completed. Demolished in 2014 for Limestone Park.[2][5] | |
Erikson Hall | Central | 3 + B | 1939 | Completed | |
Funkhouser Building | Central | 7 + B + B1 | 1942 | Completed | |
Cooperstown Apartments | South | 1946 | Buildings razed in 2012–13 for Woodland Glen. | ||
Frank D. Peterson Service Building | Central | 1949 | Completed | ||
Bowman Hall | Central | 1949 | Completed | ||
Fine Arts Building | Central | 1950 | Completed | ||
Memorial Coliseum | North | 3 | 1950 | Completed | |
Mineral Industries Building | Central | 1951 | Completed | ||
Grehan Journalism Building | Central | 2+B | 1951 | Completed | |
Keeneland Hall | North | 4 + B | 1955 | Completed. Demolished in 2014 for Limestone Park.[2][5] | |
Donovan Hall | Central | 5 | 1955 | Completed. Demolished in 2014 for the new Academic Science Building.[5] | |
Holmes Hall | North | 4 + B | 1958 | Completed. Demolished in 2014 for Limestone Park.[2][5] | |
Kelley Hall | South | 1959 | Completed | ||
Blazer Hall | North | 4 | 1960 | Completed. To be converted to a classroom building as part of the Limestone Park development.[2] | |
Haggin Hall | Central | 4 | 1960 | Demolished in 2013; replaced on-site by New Haggin Hall.[12] | |
Slone Research Building | Central | 1960 | Completed | ||
K-Lair Grill and Food Storage Building | Central | 1 | 1955 [13] | K-Lair portion demolished in 2013. Food Storage Building demolished in 2014 for the new Academic Science Building.[5] | |
Chemistry-Physics Building | Central | 4 | 1962 | Completed | |
Gatton Business and Economics Building | Central | 4 | 1960s, 1992 | Completed | |
Albert B. Chandler Hospital | Medical | 1962, 2011 | Completed | ||
Helen G. King Alumni House | Central | 2 | 1963[14] | Completed | |
Margaret I. King Library (South) | Central | 3 | 1963 | Completed | |
Dickey Hall | Central | 1964 | Completed | ||
Law Building | Central | 2 + B | 1965 | Completed | |
Anderson Tower | Central: Engineering Quadrangle | 7 + B | 1966 | Completed | |
Blanding Tower | South | 23 | 1967 | Completed | |
Blanding I | South | 3 | 1967 | Completed | |
Blanding II | South | 3 | 1967 | Completed | |
Blanding III | South | 3 | 1967 | Completed | |
Blanding IV | South | 3 | 1967 | Completed | |
Kirwan Tower | South | 23 | 1967 | Completed | |
Kirwan I | South | 3 | 1967 | Completed | |
Kirwan II | South | 3 | 1967 | Completed | |
Kirwan III | South | 3 | 1967 | Completed | |
Kirwan IV | South | 3 | 1967 | Completed | |
Patterson Office Tower | Central | 18 | 1969[9] | Completed | |
Cliff Hagan Stadium | South | N/A | 1969, 2002 | Completed | |
White Hall Classroom Building | Central | 3 + B | 1969 | Completed | |
Sanders–Brown Center on Aging | Medical | 4 | 1972 | Completed | |
Commonwealth Stadium | South | N/A (two decks) | 1973, 2015 | Completed | |
Lucille C. Little Fine Arts Library | Central | 2 + B | 1974 | Completed. Originally the north addition of the Margaret I. King Library. | |
University of Kentucky Children's Hospital | Medical | Completed | |||
Kentucky Clinic | Medical | 5 | Completed | ||
Singletary Center for the Arts | Central | 1979[9] | Completed | ||
Greg Page Apartments | South | 25 buildings, 2 floors each | 1979[1] | Completed | |
Student Center Addition | North | 1982 | Completed. Demolished in 2015 as part of the Student Center renovation and expansion project.[11] | ||
Markey Cancer Center | Medical | 1985[9] | Completed | ||
Boone Faculty Center | Central | 1 | 1986 | Completed | |
Gluck Equine Research Center | South | 1987 | Completed | ||
E.J. Nutter Training Facility | South | 1987 | Completed | ||
Lancaster Aquatic Center | South | 1989 | Completed | ||
Charles E. Barnhart Building | South | 1990 | Completed | ||
ASTeCC Building | Central | 1994 | Completed | ||
William T. Young Library | Central | 6 + B | 1998 | Completed | |
CRMS Building | Central | 5 + B | Completed | ||
Oliver H. Raymond Civil Engineering Building | Central | 3 + B | 1998 | Completed | |
James F. Hardymon Building | South | September 2000 | Completed | ||
Ralph G. Anderson Building | Central | 3 + B | 2002 | Completed | |
Bernard M. Johnson Student Recreation Center | South | January 2003 | Completed. Expansion and renovation of the former Seaton Center. | ||
Charles T. Wethington, Jr. Building | Medical | 6 | February 2003 | Completed | |
Gill Heart Institute | Medical | 5 | April 2004 | Completed | |
Biomedical Biological Science Research Building | Medical | 5 | April 2005 | Completed | |
Dale E. Baldwin Residence Hall | South | 3 | August 2005 | Completed | |
Margaret Ingels Residence Hall | South | 3 | August 2005 | Completed | |
David P. Roselle Residence Hall | North | 4 + Maintenance Level | August 2005 | Completed | |
John T. Smith Residence Hall | South | 3 | August 2005 | Completed | |
Joe Craft Center (basketball practice facility) | North | 2 | January 2007 | Completed | |
Student Health Facility | Medical | 4 | July 2008 | Completed | |
Biological Pharmaceutical Complex Building | Medical | 5 + B | 2010 | Completed | |
Wildcat Coal Lodge | Central | 2012 | Completed | ||
Central Hall 1 & 2 | Central | 4 | Fall 2013 | Completed[15] | |
Champions Court I & II | North | 2014 | Completed[16] | ||
Woodland Glen I, II, III, IV, & V | South | 2014-2015 | Completed. Woodland Glen I and II opened in fall 2014; the remainder opened in fall 2015.[5] | ||
New Haggin Hall | Central | 5[17] | Fall 2014[17] | Completed | |
Academic Science Building | Central | 2015 | Under construction[5][18] | ||
The 90 | South | Summer 2015 | Completed[19] | ||
Limestone Park I & II | North | Fall 2016 | Under construction[2] | ||
Medical Research Building | Medical | 6 | Planning[20] |
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Housing analysis." University of Kentucky. 2 February 2007 .
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "UK Board Approves Next Phase of Housing Development" (Press release). University of Kentucky. January 31, 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
- ↑ Unless otherwise noted, the year in which each building was completed was taken from UK Campus Guide. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
- ↑ "Campus Guide: Maxwell Place". University of Kentucky. July 22, 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Blackford, Linda B. (May 26, 2014). "University of Kentucky spending $4 million to demolish eight buildings this summer". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
- ↑ "Building Database Full Record: Administration Building". University of Kentucky. 1998-07-14.
- ↑ Bolivar Arts Center UK School of Arts and Visual Studies. Retrieved 2015-03-13.
- ↑ http://ukcc.uky.edu/cgi-bin/dynamo?maps.391+campus+X001
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "A Chronology of UK". University of Kentucky Special Collections & Digital Programs Division. 2 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-11.
- ↑ Boyd Hall Photograph with Caption Retrieved 2013-01-17
- 1 2 Blackford, Linda B. (July 7, 2015). "Portions of University of Kentucky student center demolished for expansion". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
- ↑ Haggin Hall University of Kentucky. Retrieved 2013-08-08
- ↑ Hairston, Gail (September 23, 2011). "Celebrate K Lair's 50th Year as a UK Eatery". University of Kentucky News. Retrieved 2013-01-18.
- ↑ "Mission & History". University of Kentucky Alumni Association. 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-11.
- ↑ New Central Residence Hall Retrieved 2013-01-17
- ↑ Tune, Chrissie (October 15, 2012). "New Residence Hall to Impact North Campus Parking". University of Kentucky News. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
- 1 2 New Haggin Hall Project Details EDR Collegiate Housing. Retrieved 2013-08-08
- ↑ Blackford, Linda B. (January 10, 2013). "UK Athletics will pay for two-thirds of new $100 million science building". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved 2013-01-17.
- ↑ 2015-2016 Dining Plans University of Kentucky. Retrieved 2015-03-13.
- ↑ Brammer, Jack (March 9, 2015). "Beshear signs bill authorizing bonds for University of Kentucky medical research building". Lexington Herald Leader. Retrieved 2015-03-13.