Buildings at the University of Kentucky

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The University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky is home to many notable structures, including three high-rises. Major construction projects are underway or are being planned that includes a new hospital, School of Pharmacy building, and several new college structures.

By floor count, 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.

Contents 1 New developments 2 Timeline 3 Future 4 Trivia 5 References 6 See also

[edit] New developments

Currently under construction is a new parking structure for the Albert B. Chandler Hospital at South Limestone between Conn Terrace Transcript Avenue. The 1,600 space garage, which will be connected to the lobby of a new patient care facility via a skyway, will be completed in the third quarter of 2007. Upon completion, the existing parking garage for the hospital will be demolished for the new patient care facility.

In the future, a new medical campus for the University of Kentucky will be constructed west of South Limestone. The 20-year, $2.5 billion plan is projected to "accelerate growth in research and health education" and will include additional research structures, a new shared Health Sciences Learning Center, and new structures for the College of Medicine, College of Dentistry, College of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, and College of Public Health.^[1] The first of this to be constructed was the Biomedical Biological Science Research Building.

[edit] Timeline

Building	Campus	Floors	Year completed/projected	Status
Main Building	Central	5	February 15, 1882 [2]	Completed
White Hall [3]	Central		1882	Demolished in 1967
Neville Hall [4]	Central		1890	Destroyed by fire in 1961
Mechanical Hall [5]	Central		1892	Demolished in 1964
Experiment Station (Gillis Building)	Central		1892	Completed
Miller Hall	Central	3 + B	1898	Completed
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
Mining Laboratory (Engineering Annex)	Central		1907	Completed
Carnegie Library [6]	Central		1909	Demolished in 1967
Pence Hall	Central	3 + B	1909	Completed
Kastle Hall	Central	3 + B	1909, 1926	Completed
Norwood Hall [7]	Central		1910	Destroyed by fire 1948
Boyd Hall	North	4	1920s?	Completed
Alumni Gymnasium	North		1924[3]	Completed
McLean Stadium	North		1924[3]	Completed
McVey Hall	Central	3 + B	1928	Completed
Memorial Hall	Central	2	1929[3]	Completed
Margaret I. King Library	Central	3	1931	Completed
Lafferty Hall	Central		1936	Completed
Student Union (Student Center)	North		1937, 1962	Completed
Jewell Hall	North	4	1938	Completed
Funkhouser Building	Central	7 + B + B1	1942	Completed
Memorial Coliseum	North	3	1950	Completed
The Grehan Building	Central	2+B	1951	Completed
Keeneland Hall	North	4 + B	1952?	Completed
Holmes Hall	North	4 + B	1956	Completed
Donovan Hall	Central	5	1960s	Completed
Haggin Hall	Central	4	1960s	Completed
Gatton College of Business and Economics Building	Central	4	1960s, 1992	Completed
Albert B. Chandler Hospital	Medical		1962	Completed
Helen G. King Alumni House	Central	2	1963[4]	Completed
Margaret I. King Library (South)	Central	3	1963	Completed
Law Building	Central	2 + B	1965	Completed
Anderson Tower	Central: Engineering Quadrangle	7	1966	Completed
Blazer Hall	North	4	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[3]	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	Completed
Margaret I. King Library (North)	Central	2 + B	1974	Completed
University of Kentucky Children's Hospital	Medical			Completed
Kentucky Clinic	Medical	5		Completed
Singletary Center for the Arts	Central		1979[3]	Completed
Greg Page Apartments	South	25 buildings, 2 floors each	1979[5]	Completed
Markey Cancer Center	Medical		1985[3]	Completed
Boone Faculty Center	Central	1	1986	Completed
Student Center Addition	North		1987	Completed
Lancaster Aquatic Center	South		1989	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
Ralph G. Anderson Building	Central	3 + B	2002	Completed
Bernard M. Johnson Student Recreation Center	South		January 2003	Completed
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
Baldwin Hall (Dale E. Baldwin Residence Hall)	South	3	August 2005	Completed
Ingles Hall (Margaret Ingles Residence Hall)	South	3	August 2005	Completed
New North Hall	North	4 + Maintenance Level	August 2005	Completed
Smith Hall (John T. Smith Residence Hall)	South	3	August 2005	Completed
Joe Craft Center (basketball practice facility)	North	2	January 2007	Completed
Chemistry Physics Building	Central	4	1960's	Completed
Patient Care Facility Parking Garage	Medical	7	2007	Under construction
Student Health Facility	Medical	4	2008	Under construction
Albert B. Chandler Hospital	Medical	10	Projected 2011	Design
Law Building	Central	3	2009 (projected)	Design
Gatton College of Business and Economics Building	North			Design
Biological Pharmaceutical Complex Building	Medical			Design

[edit] Future

In the next twenty years, substantial housing will need to be completed^[5] 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.

New residence halls are planned^[5] 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.

In addition, several existing structures may be renovated to residence hall use.^[5] Scovell Hall, constructed in 1905, will "most likely" be vacated and would be prime for residential redevelopment. Kinkead, Bradley, Bowman and Breckinridge halls, at the corner of Washington Avenue and Rose Street, were originally residence halls and may be repurposed back to that need.

[edit] Trivia

• Completed in 1979,^[5] Greg Page Apartments was the newest residence facility until Baldwin Hall, Ingles Hall, 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 suffered a broken neck in a freak practice accident in 1966 and died from the complications 38 days later.
• Greg Page Apartments require constant maintenance.^[5] The exterior wood siding necessitates continual repair or replacement at "extreme expense" and the wood frame construction has failed in at least one instance, causing significant damage to several units. The onset of problems due to cheap construction techniques and materials has resulted the Greg Page Apartments reaching the end of their usable life.

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Cityscape of Lexington, Kentucky
• University of Kentucky