Humanities building given go-ahead signal
Final approval of a $1,032,000 grant under Title One of the Higher Education Facilities Act is the green light for architects to move ahead on planning the first phase of a new KU humanities building.
Keith Lawton, vice chancellor for operations, said the first phase will cost about $4 million. In addition to the $1,032,000 approved in Washington Friday for the undergraduate part of the teaching
and research facility, the 1655 Legislature appropriated $2,700,-000. An application is pending in Washington under Title Two of the act for $298,670 toward graduate teaching and research facilities.
THE FIRST PHASE of the huge structure, which eventually will have three units, will occupy the space now covered by old Robinson Gymnasium, which can be
razed next spring after completion of new Fraser Hall.
The three sections of the building will be separate, connected by ramps and covered walkways, to avoid the great mass of a single building.
Financing for the second phase
on the site of Haworth Hall, will be sought from future legislatures and also through the Higher Education Facilities Act.
Lawton expressed hope that the first phase of the humanities building could be under construction by summer or early fall of
1967. The $2.89 million experimental biology and human development building should be somewhat ahead and ready to receive the departments now in Haworth Hall. Haworth could be razed so that phase two construction might start almost as soon as phase one is finished.
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