WKU Hilltopper Heritage - Buildings & Grounds

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For more information regarding the history of Western Kentucky University please contact the WKU Archives.

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Administration	Faculty & Staff
Alumni	Photographs
Athletics	Special Events
Buildings & Grounds	Student Organizations
Collection Inventories	WKU Traditions & Memories

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Looking for a specific building or structure? Check out WKU Special Collection Libraries & Kentucky Museum Research Strategies.

Buildings & Grounds

General Overviews

Major Construction Projects, 1955-1969 
WKU Buildings & Property Lists 

Architects

Frank Cain
Henry Wright   

Architectural Drawings & Plans

Bate-Runner - architectural painting - digitized
Blueprints, Drawings & Plans - Collection Inventory
Cherry Hall 1937+

Architectural Painting - digitized
Elevation, 1937- digitized

Diddle Arena - architectural painting - digitized
Domestic Science House, 1910 - D385 digitized
Gordon Wilson - architectural painting - digitized
Helm Library - architectural painting - digitized
Ogden Hall

First Floor - D142 - digitized
Porch elevation - D144 - digitized
Second Floor - D143 - digitized

Physical Education - rendering - digitized
Recitation Hall

First Floor - D149-1 - digitized
Second Floor - D149-2 - digitized
Third Floor - D149-3 - digitized

ROTC - Proposed - rendering - digitized
Snell Hall - architectural painting - digitized
Supply-Services Building

Architectural Painting - digitized
Rendering - digitized

Swimming Pool - architectural painting - digitized
Thompson Science - architectural painting - digitized
Van Meter - architectural painting - digitized

Building Bibliographies & Histories

Academic-Athletic Building No. 1 aka Diddle Arena
Academic-Athletic Building No. 2 aka L.T. Smith Stadium
Academic Complex, 1969
Agricultural Exposition Center  
Bailey Home
Barnes-Campbell Hall 
Barracks, 1918 razed 1924
Bates-Runner Hall   
Bemis Lawrence Hall 
Big Red Barn 
Cabell House 
Cedar House
Center for Research & Development
Cherry Halls

Carillon  
Elevation, 1937 - digitized

Clinical Education Complex
College Heights Foundation
College High   
Cravens Graduate Center & Library
Denes Field
Detrex Field
Diddle Dorm    
Downing University Center   
E.A. Diddle Arena  
Education Complex, 1970
Engineering & Biological Sciences Complex
Environmental Sciences & Technology   
Faculty House
Feix Field  
Felts Log House
Frisbie Hall
Garrett Conference Center, 1951; 1965
Gilbert Hall   
Gordon Wilson Hall  
Grise Hall  
Guest House aka Pest House, razed 1971
Hardin Planetarium & Observatory  
Heating Plant, 1927; 1963
Helm Library     
Home Economics  
Home Management House 
Houchens Industries - L.T. Smith Stadium
Industrial Education, 1929
Information Center
Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center  
Keen Hall
Kentucky Building
Knicely Institute for Economic Development & Conference Center
Laundrette
Maintenance Service
Mass Media & Technology Hall
McCormack Hall, 1961 aka State Hall 1961-1969
McLean Hall, 1947 
Meredith Hall
Minton Hall
Music Hall
Newman Center
Northeast Hall
Observatory
Ogden Hall, ca. 1870, razed 1966
Parking

Structure 1, 1970
Structure 2

Pearce-Ford Tower
Physical Education
Pioneer Cabin
Poland Hall, 1969 aka Dormitory #9
Potter Hall 1920; 1994
President's Homes  

Ogden College 

Preston Health & Activities Center  
Ransdell Hall
Recitation Hall  
Red Barn 
Rock House 
Rodes-Harlin Hall, 1966, $1,264,801 housed 400 women 
Rural Demonstration School, 1924 razed 1955
Schneider Hall, 1929 aka White Hall, Whitestone Hall & West Hall 
Seminar Center
Services Supply Building, 1970
Smith Stadium
Snell Hall

Original
New, Proposed

Soccer Complex
South Regional Post Secondary Education Center
Southwest Hall
Stadium & Colonnade   
Stone Building
Structures

Cherry Statue
Cherry Sundial
Creed Monument
Diddle Statue
Guthrie Bell Tower & Courtyard  
Johnson Sundial
Lincoln Bench 
Memorial Tower (proposed)
Old Fort Bridge
Spoonholder 
Water Towers, 1929; Big Red Tank 2004

Student Publications 
Tate Page Hall
Taylor Agricultural Pavilion, 1965
Thompson Science Complex 
Track & Field Complex (proposed)
Training School 
University High   
Van Meter Hall   

Chapel - Bibliography 

Wetherby Administration 
Zacharias Hall, 1992 aka New Coed Hall

Buildings & Grounds Sources

Campus Planning - full-text searchable 

Construction Files

Blueprints, Plans & Drawings - Collection Inventory
Dero Downing Construction File - Collection Inventory
Kelly Thompson Construction File - Collection Inventory
Planning, Design & Construction Building File - Collection Inventory

Haunted Buildings  
Maps

Cherryton Village, 1920 - digitized
Master Plan, 1973 - digitized
Property, 1930 - digitized

Master Plan Committee - Collection Inventory 
Multimedia
Photographs

Buildings & Structures - Collection Inventory
Campus Views - Collection Inventory
Campus Views - digitized
Franklin Studios Photograph Collection - Collection Inventory
Franklin Studios Photographs - digitized
Leon Garrett Digital Photographs - Collection Inventory
Leon Garrett Digital Photographs - digitized

Property

Property File - Collection Inventory

Residence Halls

Barnes-Campbell
Bates-Runner 
Bemis Lawrence 
Diddle Dorm 
Douglas Keen
Gilbert 
Hugh Poland
McCormack
McLean
Meredith
Minton
Northeast
Pearce-Ford Tower
Rodes Harlin
Southwest
Zacharias