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the Science Building Fund, was devised to raise $6,125,000 for the construction of a science building to replace the outdated science labs and classrooms in Jordan Hall, which opened in 1928.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.
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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