Lilly Hall of Life Sciences records
Scope and Contents
The Lilly Hall of Life Sciences records document the planning, development, and construction of Lilly Hall. It consists of correspondence, technical drawings, floor plans, maps, architect construction specifications, photographs and negatives, reviews of life science buildings at other institutions, and reports of departmental needs for the new building. Also included are two booklets advertising the building following its completion.
Dates
- Creation: 1939 - 1963
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1948 - 1957
Creator
- Purdue University (Organization)
Access Information
The collection is open for research.
Copyright and Use Information
Copyright held by Purdue University. Consult with Purdue University Archives and Special Collections prior to reproduction of materials.
Historical Information
President Frederick Hovde conceived of a life sciences building for Purdue in 1947, to meet the space needs of several science departments and integrate multiple disciplines into a single building. Planning for the building, then called the “Life Science Building,” began in 1948, with construction initiated in 1951. The finished building was dedicated on September 18, 1959, containing at the time 750 rooms used for classroom instruction, laboratories,... and staff offices. Four departments were housed in the building at launch, consisting of Animals Sciences, Agronomy, Biological Sciences, and Botany and Plant Pathology.
On December 14, 1960, following approval from the Board of Trustees, the Life Science Building was renamed to the Lilly Hall of Life Sciences, in honor of the decades of support from the Lilly family of Indianapolis.
Extent
1.98 Cubic Feet (One cubic foot box, one letter-size full-width manuscript box, four folders, and 19 flat folders)
Language of Materials
English
Acquisition Information
Source and date of acquisition are unknown.
Processing Information
All materials have been housed in acid-free folders and acid-free boxes. Original order of the materials has been retained whenever possible. Oversized materials have been kept with their original files, however items requiring storage in a larger container have been unfolded and moved to oversized boxes or flat file drawers.
Subject
- Lilly family (Family)
- Lilly Hall of Life Sciences (West Lafayette, Ind.) (Organization)
- Purdue University -- Buildings (Organization)
- Title
- Lilly Hall of Life Sciences records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jon Hathaway, Adelle Rogers, and William Niner
- Date
- 2025-03-18
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Edition statement
- Third edition. Collection description was first completed 2017-09-08.
Revision Statements
- 2020-05-15: Collection description updated by Adelle Rogers.
- 2025-03-18: Collection reprocessed and description updated by William Niner.
- Box: 1 (Text)
- Box: 2 (Text)
- Communal Collections Box: 1, Placement: 13 (Mixed Materials)
- Communal Collections Box: 82, Placement: 09 (Mixed Materials)
- Communal Collections Box: 83, Placement: 09 (Mixed Materials)
- Communal Collections Box: 85, Placement: 06 (Mixed Materials)
- Communal Collections Box: 91, Placement: 05 (Mixed Materials)
- Communal Collections Box: 94, Placement: 02 (Mixed Materials)
- Folder: 1 (Mixed Materials)
- Folder: 2 (Graphic Materials)
- Folder: 3 (Mixed Materials)
Repository Details
Part of the Purdue University Archives and Special Collections Repository
504 Mitch Daniels Boulevard
West Lafayette Indiana 47907 United States
765-494-2839
archives@purdue.edu