Built for science
Bailey's role changed
Bailey Hall was built in 1900 and the School of Education was organized in 1910, but the two did not come together until 46 years later.
The school's quarters in the basement and first floor of Fraser Hall had been too small for many years. When the School of Pharmacy and the chemistry department moved into recently completed Malott Hall in 1954, Bailey became available.
And Bailey, though 69 years old, is still in good physical condition.
The building was planned by architect John G. Haskell and Prof. E. H. S. Bailey, chemistry professor at KU from 1883 to 1933. The two men visited the principal chemical laboratories of the country before drawing up plans for what was to be one of the finest laboratories west of Chicago.
A legislative appropriation of only $55,000 forced the elimination of everything planned for architectural effect. The rock used to construct the building was quarried in excavation. Some of that native limestone was colored yellowish by iron oxide, and this was used to face the rear wall.
The building, with its forest of flues, was known for years as "Bailey's Barn." The Jayhawker reported that in the basement there was a "liquid air machine, and there is a hot air machine on every other floor."
Interior walls were of frame "nogged" with brick between the studs. At each end of the central
Blake has a long history
Blake Hall, which is perhaps best known as the home of the political science department, is the successor to a building with a far more exciting character.
Old Blake Hall stood in the same location as New Blake from 1895 to 1963, before being razed for the construction of its replacement.
Old Blake was a physics building named for Lucien I. Blake, KU physics professor from 1887 to 1906. Blake wanted to draw the plans for the building himself, and the structure was to have resembled Green Hall.
A jealous struggle between Blake and the state architect developed, and, unfortunately for Old Blake Hall, the state architect triumphed.
As a result, the building emerged looking, according to the University Review of March, 1895, "like a speckled chicken." The Review continued, "If there be no lotion to remove this blemish, let a screen be put before the building."
Old Blake had other problems besides its appearance, among them a large clock mounted on the roof that seldom kept accurate time, and a top floor used as a gymnasium for women students.
Until it was abandoned for Malott Hall in 1952, Old Blake served the University faithfully. The building stood dormant for several years, while various plans to remodel it were drawn up and discarded for lack of funds.
In 1963, demolition work began on the building, and in 1964, New Blake Hall was completed.
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portion, four-foot brick walls contained both heating and ventilating flues. Flues were also built into every available place in the exterior walls. The flues were grouped into brick chimneys which were for many years Bailey's most distinctive feature
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1969 KANSAN 9
In 1955 the state legislature appropriated $400,000 and two years later an additional $250,000 to remodel the building-12 times the original cost of construction
Most of the money went into the interior. Halls received colorful ceramic tile at wainscot height, and the original double floors of $1_{3-4}$ inch hard pine were covered with vinyl tile. New fireproof entrances with finish face brick walls and steel steps were added on the south and east and equipped with glass doors.
The offices and class rooms were completely remodeled and redecorated, clinics and laboratories constructed and equipped and the former student lecture room, room 201, became a modern auditorium equipped with audio-visual facilities and seating over 200 persons.
One of the most important items in the remodeling project was the air-conditioning of the entire building, the first such classroom building on the KU campus.
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