List of University of Kentucky buildings

The Patterson Office Tower.

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. The existing parking garage for the hospital has since been demolished to make way for the new patient care facility.

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.

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 these buildings to be constructed was the Biomedical Biological Science Research Building.

Future

In the next twenty years, substantial housing will need to be completed^[2] 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.^[3] New residence halls have also been planned^[2] 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.^[2] 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.

Greg Page Apartments

Completed in 1979,^[2] 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.

Greg Page Apartments require constant maintenance.^[2] 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.

Timeline

Image	Building	Campus	Floors	Year Completed[4]	Status
	Maxwell Place	Central	2.5	1872 [5]	Completed.
	Hamilton House	North		1880[6]	Completed. Demolished in fall 2014.[6]
	Main Building	Central	5	February 15, 1882 [7]	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 and will become the home of the School of Arts and Visual Studies during the Summer of 2015.[8]
	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[9]	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[10]	Completed
	McLean Stadium	North		1924[10]	Demolished in 1974.
	Boyd Hall	North	4	1925[11]	Completed. Demolished in 2014 for Limestone Park.[3][6]
	McVey Hall	Central	3 + B	1928	Completed
	Memorial Hall	Central	2	1929[10]	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.[12]
	Jewell Hall	North	4	1939	Completed. Demolished in 2014 for Limestone Park.[3][6]
	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.[3][6]
	Donovan Hall	Central	5	1955	Completed. Demolished in 2014 for the new Academic Science Building.[6]
	Holmes Hall	North	4 + B	1958	Completed. Demolished in 2014 for Limestone Park.[3][6]
	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.[3]
	Haggin Hall	Central	4	1960	Demolished in 2013.[13]
	Slone Research Building	Central		1960	Completed
	K-Lair Grill and Food Storage Building	Central	1	1955 [14]	K-Lair portion demolished in 2013. Food Storage Building demolished in 2014 for the new Academic Science Building.[6]
	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[15]	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[10]	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[10]	Completed
	Greg Page Apartments	South	25 buildings, 2 floors each	1979[2]	Completed
	Student Center Addition	North		1982	Completed. Demolished in 2015 as part of the Student Center renovation and expansion project.[12]
	Markey Cancer Center	Medical		1985[10]	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
	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[16]
	Champions Court I & II	North		2014	Completed[17]
	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.[6]
	New Haggin Hall	Central	5[18]	Fall 2014[18]	Completed
	Academic Science Building	Central		2015	Under construction[6][19]
	The 90	South		Summer 2015	Under construction[20]
	Limestone Park I & II	North		Fall 2016	Under construction[3]
	Medical Research Building	Medical	6		Planning[21]

See also

• Cityscape of Lexington, Kentucky

References

External links

• University of Kentucky Virtual Campus Tour
• UK Campus Housing Master Plan