Spooner Hall, Fourteenth Street & Jayhawk Road, Lawrence, Douglas County, KS

1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place

Significance: Spooner Hall was financed by William B. Spooner, a Boston merchant, with a bequest of $91,000. In 1893, "Van Brunt & Howe Architects" of Kansas City were commissioned to design the building as the first university library. It was dedicated on October 10, 1894. It served as the library until 1924. Since then it has housed the Thayer Art Collection until 1979 and is now the Museum of Anthropology.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N208

Survey number: HABS KS-65-A

Building/structure dates: 1891- 1894 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1924 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1979 Subsequent Work

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