Dyche Hall
Dyche Hall is a structure on the University of Kansas campus and houses the Museum of Natural History .
history
The building was built in the years 1901 and 1902 according to plans by Walter C. Root and George W. Siemens in the neo-Romanesque style and handed over to its purpose in 1903. After Lewis Lindsay Dyche's death in 1915, it was named after this professor. Dyche Hall was built to house the taxidermy Dyches shown at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 . From 1932 to 1941, Dyche Hall was restored. In 1963 and 1996, extensions were added.
Today, Dyche Hall still houses the preparations that Dyche once created, including the Comanche horse , which survived the Battle of Little Big Horn , and the great North America panorama. The structure also houses the Biodiversity Institute and Biodiversity Research Center, an entomological collection that used to be found in Snow Hall , and several other departments.
Historic Place
On July 14, 1974, Dyche Hall with its tower that dominates the cityscape was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a monument . The architectural style of the limestone building is described as Venetian-Romanesque and is based on church buildings of the 11th and 12th centuries in southern Europe. It is adorned with numerous stone images of fantasy and actually existing animals and plants. Six aediculae are named after the scientists Charles Darwin , Thomas Henry Huxley , John James Audubon , Asa Gray , Edward Drinker Cope and Louis Agassiz .
In 2008 the building was among the finalists in the Eight Wonders of Architecture competition .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed June 12, 2016
- ^ Campus Buildings Directory
- ^ Dyche Hall, Lawrence - 8 Wonders of Kansas
- ^ Eight Wonders of Architecture
Coordinates: 38 ° 57 ′ 31 " N , 95 ° 14 ′ 38" W.