40 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
THE PLANT OF THE UNIVERSITY I
The University of Kentucky is a small city in itself. It has its own post of th
oflice, bookstore, radio station, newspaper, printing plant, theatre, police force, g
cafeterias, and hospital. The University community, including students, faculty and 5
and staff members, and their families, numbers about 15,000. the V
There are more than 60 major buildings on the 706-acre main campus at
Lexington. The campus farm contains over 500 acres and the principal Experi- ‘
ment Station Farm, located just north of Lexington and including historic Cold- Spacf
stream Fann, has 1,150 acres. Sub-experiment stations at Princeton and Quick-
sand contain 600 and 200 acres respectively, and a forest reserve at Quicksand
includes 14,800 acres. The University’s Eden Shale Farm in Owen County
has 900 acres, and 140-acre and 400-acre farms in Woodford and Mercer
Counties are under long-term lease.
The Northern Kentucky Center, offering two years of college work, is amd,
located in Covington. hbm,
Locations of campus buildings are shown on the map near the front of
this publication. Following is a list of the major buildings, with brief enumera-
tions of the services housed in them. heat
Administration Building. In this building are located the oflices of the gsi:
President, the Vice-President of the University, the Vice-President (Business Cum,
Administration), the Comptroller, the Dean of Men, the Dean of Women, Mm
the Dean of Admissions and Registrar, the Department of Public Relations, L
the Director of Counseling (including veterans’ affairs), the Director of Test-
ing, the Kentucky Research Foundation, and the Placement Service. fl pr
Aeronautical Research Laboratory. This laboratory is designed for aircraft
engine testing. The laboratory is operated by the College of Engineering. wd
Agriculture Building. The oflices of the Associate Dean of the College of
Agriculture and Home Economics are located in this building. The remainder teml
of the building furnishes classroom and laboratory space for the departments smol
of Agricultural Entomology, Agronomy, Agricultural Economies, Horticulture, Plasl
and Markets and Rural Finance. . carb
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Agricultural Engineering Building. The shops, laboratories, and classrooms P
for agricultural engineering are located in this building. H
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Agricultural Experiment Station. (Scoville Hall) In the Agricultural Ex- It af
periment Station are located the offices of the Dean of the College of Agri- for
culture and Home Economics and Director of Agricultural Extension, and those
of associate directors. The building also houses the offices, laboratories, and I .1
research facilities for agronorny, chemistry, entomology and botany, agricul- lm
tural economics, rural sociology, fertilizer, feed, and seed control, and agricul- dm
tural extension.
Alumni Gymnasium. This building, located at the corner of Limestone for
Street and Euclid Avenue, houses the offices of the Men’s Department of Physi- nga
cal Education, the main playing floor, a corrective gymnasium, classrooms, and
lockers and showers. The majority of physical education activities and intra- émd
murals for men are held in this building.
Anderson Hall. This quadrangle, made up of several rather distinct units, Iwu
houses the offices of the Dean of the College of Engineering, the Engineering dim
Library, and the departments of Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, and Mining and
Metallurgical Engineering. by