Campus Buildings Directory

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1545 Irving Hill Road 66045-7523

Named for W.G. Parrott Jr., a major donor, it was completed in 1970; major renovations were done in 1993. It houses business offices; the Williams Fund administrative offices; the baseball locker room and Olympic sport equipment room; and offices for Olympic sports coaches, including swimming, tennis, softball, soccer, volleyball and golf.

See also: Allen Fieldhouse Complex

500 W. 11th St. 66045-3314

Opened in 1955, GSP now forms a single living unit with Corbin, 420 W. 11th St., and shares a dining center and Academic Resource Center. Together they house about 720 women, primarily freshmen. The Student Housing Department is based in Corbin.

The halls share the site of North College, KU’s first building, constructed in 1866. This hall is named for Gertrude Sellards Pearson, a 1901 alumna who with her husband, Joseph R. Pearson, in 1945 donated money to supplement the construction of five residence and scholarship halls.

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See also: Corbin Residence Hall; Grace Pearson, Pearson and Sellards scholarship halls; Joseph R. Pearson Hall

1335 Louisiana St. 66044-3427

Funded by the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Pearson and named in honor of his sister, it is adjacent to and mirrors Douthart Hall, also designed by Raymond Coolidge of Topeka. The three-story brick building opened in fall 1955 as a women’s hall, but in fall 1960 it became a men’s hall. It now houses 48 men in four-person suites.

See also: Douthart Scholarship Hall

1122 West Campus Road 66045-3101

One of five housing residences funded by a 1945 bequest from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Pearson, it was designed by State Architect John E. Brink and opened in January 1959 as a men’s hall; it closed in the early 1990s. In 2000, after major additions and renovations costing $14.1 million and designed by Gould Evans Associates, the School of Education moved in. Founded in 1909, the school had been housed in Bailey Hall since 1956; before that it was scattered in several campus buildings.

JRP houses administrative and academic offices for undergraduate and graduate programs in psychology and research in education, special education, curriculum and teaching, and educational leadership and policy studies; staff and faculty offices; counseling, advising and placement centers; and research, resource and technology centers. These include the Center for Research on Learning, the Institute for Education Research and Public Service and the Learning Resource Center.

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See also: Bailey Hall

1426 Alumni Place 66044-3112

Gertrude Sellards Pearson (1880-1968), a 1901 alumna, and her husband, Joseph R. Pearson (1880-1955), of Corsicana, Texas, donated $200,000 in June 1945 for five residence and scholarship halls. Raymond Coolidge, a 1924 graduate and former Kansas state architect, designed this brick building. It houses 48 men in two-person suites and opened in fall 1952; a renovation was completed in 1992. The hall is named for a niece of Pearson’s.

2097 Constant Ave. 66047-3729

This one-story building of laboratories and offices was built in 1968 and acquired by the university from KU Endowment in June 1991. It is part of theHiguchi Biosciences Research Area.

1501 Crestline Drive 66045-4415

The KU Public Safety Office moved from Carruth-O’Leary Hall to the former Printing Services Building on West Campus in spring 2006, after renovations. The 32,000-square-foot building, designed by Glober & Newcomb of Topeka and opened in April 1968, also houses the entomology collection and staff moved in spring 2006 from Snow Hall, the Invertebrate Paleontology Museum collection and part of the anthropology collection. Its warehouse is used to store university catalogs and other publications.