UMKC Tour - Final Post

 We are on the downhill of the campus tour.  Really, the center of the campus seems to be the top of the hill.  So you tend to be walking uphill a lot.  

#38 Flarsheim Hall (Computing and Engineering)

A Engineering Sculpture

#37 Tribute to Robert H. Flarsheim

#31 Royall Hall

#32 Manheim Hall (Faculty Offices)

#33 UMKC's World War 1 Memorial - I think its the flagpole.

In the 1970s UMKC needed to replace a fountain that was falling apart.  The school hired an artist who had submitted a proposal.  The artist ordered a load of rocks to be hauled to the location.  A crane operator placed the rocks.  The artist never returned.  It remains untouched.

#34 Newcomb Hall (The State Historical Society of Missouri)

2 plaques on Scofield Hall

#35 Scofield Hall

#36 The Quad - Middle of 6 buildings

Front of Scofield Hall

Scofield Hall was once the Dickey Mansion.  The home of Walter S. Dickey built around 1912.

The story I have read is that Dickey and William Rockhill Nelson (owner of the Kansas City Star & Nelson-Atkins Museum donator) hated each other.  Nelson's home was at the Nelson-Atkins Museum site so Dickey built his home here so Nelson would have to see his home the first thing every morning.

Nelson died in 1915 leaving a fortune to establish the Nelson-Atkins Museum.  Dickey wanted to get into politics but the Star did not support him.  He decided to put the Star out of business and bought the Post and the Journal, putting all of his money into this.  In 1930, William Volker and the KC Chamber of Commerce purchased land for a university.  3 years later, Dickey was dead and deadly in debt.  Volker asked the heirs to donate the mansion to the university and he took over the debt.

This was the view of the Nelson-Atkins when I turned around.  Dickey and Nelson used to spy on each other through telescopes.

#39 Robert W. Plaster Free Enterprise and Research Center

#40 Spencer Chemistry Building and Biological Sciences Building

#41 Katz Hall (Architecture and Urban Design)

That's it.  I'm glad I did this walking tour when it was in the low 70s and not any warmer.  These kids have to be in great shape.  It was a very long walk.  Even breaking it up - it was long.  It is a beautiful campus.  There are several performances I would like to go to and the art exhibit.  I also thought the Linda Hall Library was part of the university.  I want to go to an exhibit there also.  

So I was able to cross something off my list.

Until tomorrow.