UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 19, 1992
15E
Old-continued from, Page 14.
Wanting to make the building as fireproof as possible, the architects designed the floors to be laid in concrete interwoven with barbed wire. This was done also to give the floor tensile strength. Fireproof plaster walls, then, new were also used.
On Oct. 17, 1902, while the building was still under construction, Dyche's first floor was made into an auditorium for the inauguration of the new chancellor. Frank Strong
The building was originally built with a skylight in the center of the third floor. However, to reduce the fading of exhibits, the skylight was later removed, and the roof was raised to accommodate a small fourth-floor exhibit.
Designed in 1905 by John F. Stanton, state architect, in the style of American Renaissance, Green Hall stood as the law building until the new Green Hall was dedicated Feb. 21, 1978.
The law department started in
1878 with 13 students and one part-time faculty member, James Wood Green, later known as "Uncle Jimmy Green." He built the law department into the School of Law and taught until his death in 1919.
Green Hall's front Ionic Temple portico is its principal architectural feature. The design is repeated on the rear, but not as a portico. The basement was constructed of native limestone. The building is trimmed in gray terra cotta.
The basement is finished in yellow pine, and the rest of the interior is finished in oak. The basement originally contained a large lecture room, a model courtroom and a cloak room. The first story contained classrooms and the dean's office. The second floor contained the library and faculty offices.
By 1972 the law library exceeded 125,000 volumes, and enrollment reached 481, more than tripling the building's capacity. And in 1978 the new Green Hall was built on 15th Street.
Robinson Gymnasium, (left) pictured here in 1943, was designed by James Naismith. The building opened in 1906 and closed in 1967. Robinson was located across from Strong Hall before it was rebuilt in its present location. Old Fraser Hall, (top left), pictured in the 1930s, held law and home economic classrooms from 1872 to 1965. Located across the street from Strong Hall, Haworth (top) pictured in the 1930s, held its own greenhouse and geology classrooms. Photos courtesy of University Archives.
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