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.
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