Portraits of Edward F. Gallahue and Dorothy Gallahue
| Description: |
A capital funds campaign was launched in 1968 to raise $21.8 million for improvements to campus facilities and to plan for an expected increase in student enrollment. At the time, it was the largest capital funds campaign in Butler University history. The first part of the campaign, the Science Building Fund, was devised to raise $6,125,000 for the construction of a science building to replace the outdated science labs and classrooms in Jordan Hall, which opened in 1928. Edward F. and Dorothy Gallahue donated more than $1 million towards this project, so the building was named the Dorothy and Edward Gallahue Science Hall in their honor. Edward Gallahue was a University Trustee and the president of the American States Insurance Company. When the building opened in 1973, it freed up 40,000 square feet of space in Jordan Hall, which had previously housed the science departments. Gallahue Hall was one half of a new Science Complex and was built concurrently with the Holcomb Research Institute (HRI) building. These portraits of Edward (left) and Dorothy (right), painted by Jay Wesley Jacobs in 1953, used to hang in Gallahue Hall, but were temporarily moved to Clowes Memorial Hall, circa 2019, to protect them during renovation and expansion of the Science Complex. As of the fall of 2023, the plan is to return the portraits to Gallahue Hall, now that the work on the Science Complex is complete. |
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| Source: |
http://palni.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BldgsGrnds/id/2970 |
| Collection: |
Butler University Buildings and Grounds Collection |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted |
| Subjects: |
Portraits Painting Portrait frames Picture frames and framing College trustees Butler University--Buildings College buildings Butler University--History Indianapolis (Ind.)--History Gallahue, Edward F.--Portraits Gallahue, Dorothy--Portraits Jacobs, Jay Wesley Science Complex Dorothy and Edward Gallahue Science Hall Gallahue Hall Fairview campus |
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