Rebirth.(University of Kansas (Lawrence), J. R. Pearson Hall)
American School & University, May, 2002 by Kennedy, Mike
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Byline: MIKE KENNEDY Since it was designed in the 1950s, J.R. Pearson Hall had served its purpose well - housing thousands of students on the University of Kansas (KU) campus in Lawrence. But by the 1990s, the seven-story facility had outlived its usefulness as student housing. The university didn't need as many residence-hall rooms as it did in earlier decades, and students who chose on-campus housing weren't so interested in the double-occupancy rooms and gang-style bathrooms found in Pearson.
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Still, the university wasn't ready to sentence the building to a date with ...
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