This complex, about three miles west of the main KU campus on the southwest corner of Wakarusa Drive and Bob Billings Parkway, serves as the headquarters and laboratories of KU’s Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis. The CEBC office is in Building A on the upper level.

Daisy Hill Commons, which connects Self and Oswald residence halls, is an academic service center and community kitchen.

The Central District Utility Plant (CUP) provides infrastructure support for KU’s Central District. The CUP, which opened in 2018, is adjacent to the Central District Parking Garage and to Gray-Little Hall, KU’s integrated science and research hub.

The cathedral-like hall, which was dedicated in October 1996, adjoins the Lied Center on the northwest and shares a lobby with the center.

Designed by Neville, Sharp & Simon of Kansas City and completed in 1960, this brick building originally housed the Center for Research in Engineering Science, which became the Center for Research Inc. in 1962.

From January 1976 to April 1998 it housed KU Endowment, which built it and owns it, and it is named for Irvin E. Youngberg, a 1942 alumnus and the association’s executive secretary 1948-75. 

Wescoe Hall houses administrative and academic offices and classrooms for liberal arts and humanities departments.

Opened Sept. 11, 1924, this Collegiate Gothic-style limestone building was named for Carrie M. Watson, an 1877 and 1880 alumna who was university librarian 1887-1921. It was designed by George L. Chandler and State Architect Ray L. Gamble.

In 1925, Elizabeth Miller Watkins gave $75,000 to fully fund and maintain the first KU women’s scholarship hall, to be named for her late husband, Lawrence banker Jabez B. Watkins.

She also donated the land for it, on Lilac Lane adjacent to her home, “The Outlook.” The residents had to demonstrate financial need and academic ability and agree to share all domestic duties.

By the 1960s, the university had outgrown Watkins Memorial Hospital, opened in January 1932. The hospital, the gift of Elizabeth Miller Watkins and named for her late husband, could not be expanded because of its hillside site, so a larger, more modern hospital was planned for the playing fields southeast of Robinson Center.

In 1937 Elizabeth M. Watkins donated funds for a residence for nurses working at Watkins Memorial Hospital, immediately north of this building; it served that purpose until 1974. The stone building was designed by State Architect Raymond Coolidge.

It housed the Hall Center for the Humanities from 1984 to 2005. The School of Social Welfare, based in Twente Hall (formerly the student hospital), oversees several programs in the building.