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RESPECT AND
REFLECTION
Surrounded by the natural beauty of Potter
Lake and Marvin Grove, Memorial Drive
honors KU’s fallen warriors.
SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY SRL (1968)
STYLE: Neoclassical NAMED FOR: Kenneth A. Spencer,
alumnus and founder of the Midwest Research Institute
of Kansas City, Missouri. The library building and its
companion Spencer Museum of Art were largely funded
by Helen Foresman Spencer, who, like her husband, was
a KU graduate. The library houses the University
Archives; the Kansas Collection of manuscripts,
photographs, maps, books, newspapers, film, and
videotapes; and Special Collections. The public may use
its resources, and park in the Mississippi Street Parking
Garage. spencer.lib.ku.edu
MEMORIAL CAMPANILE (1951)
The bell tower and carillon honor 277 members of the
KU community who died in World War II and more than
7,000 who served. The bronze images on the north
“Doors of Kansas” and south “Doors of Memory” are by
sculpture professor Bernard Frazier.
music.ku.edu/organ/carillon
KOREAN WAR MEMORIAL (2005)
The brick and stone terrace overlooks Potter Lake. The
copper sculpture, “Korean Cranes Rising,” by design
professor Jon Havener, honors 44 members of the
university community who died in the conflict.
VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL (1986)
The first U.S. campus commemoration of that
divisive war, the 65-foot, L-shaped wall of native
Kansas limestone is engraved with the names of
59 students and alumni who died or were
declared missing.
VICTORY EAGLE (2019)
This bronze World War I sculpture, featuring an
eagle protecting its young, was cast in 1920 to be one
of many eagle markers for a transcontinental
“Victory Highway.” First installed in 1929 on U.S. 40
Highway on the Douglas-Leavenworth County line, it
was relocated in front of KU’s Dyche Hall in 1982,
then moved in 2019 to Memorial Drive.
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WALKING TOUR
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