Kirby Field House through Kunkel Hall

KIRBY FIELD HOUSE

Location: North side of campus, on corner of Pierce and Hamilton Streets

Date Built: 1973

Architect: Harbeson Hough Livingston & Larson, Philadelphia

Builder: Irwin & Leighton, Philadelphia

The Field House was named for trustee Allan P. Kirby '15, a major College benefactor. The building also contains a pool complex, named the Ruef Natatorium after John W. Ruef '01.


KIRBY HALL OF CIVIL RIGHTS

Location: On Sullivan Lane across from March Field

Date Built: 1929-1930

Architect: Whitney Warren, New York City

Builder: James Stewart & Co., New York City

Kirby Hall of Civil Rights was built by trustee Fred Morgan Kirby, to house the department of government and law, a government and law library and a political science museum.

Architectual essay on Kirby Hall


KIRBY HOUSE

Location: Across from Alumni Memorial Gymnasium at the intersection of High and Hamilton Streets

Date Built: 1949-50

Architect: Donald F. Innes, Wilkes Barre, PA

Builder: H.E. Stoudt Construction Co., Allentown

Jesse A. Kirby House is a student social residence. It was donated by Allan P. Kirby '15 in memory of his mother.


Blair, Knox, and Newkirk Halls

KNOX HALL (no longer standing)

Location: On Dorm Row, north side of the Quad

Date Built: 1899-1900

Architect: Charles Webber Bolton, Class of 1880, Philadelphia

Builder: Unknown

Knox Hall was a student residence hall, built as a link between two existing residences, Newkirk Hall and Blair Hall, to form one large residence for students. It was named for Lafayette president James Hall Mason Knox. It was razed in 1963.


KUNKEL HALL

Location: On Sullivan Lane, north of March Field, across from Phi Delta Theta

Date Built: 1969

Architect: Harbeson Hough Livingston & Larson, Philadelphia

Builder: Wark and Company, Philadelphia

Kunkel Hall was built to house the biology department, and was named for Beverly W. Kunkel, a member of the biology faculty from 1915 to 1952.


Text from "Historical Survey of the Buildings of Lafayette College." Compiled by Pamela S. Narbeth, College Archives. Easton, PA: Friends of Skillman Library, 1991. Images from the Lafayette College Archives.

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