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(Dicker Hall, Old Anderson Hall)

Mechanical Hall

Mechanical Hall was completed in January 1892. By the 1930s it was apparently known as Dicker Hall, perhaps named for Joseph Dicker, chair of the department of Practical Mechanics and Superintendent of Shops, who died in 1917. In 1948 the building was renamed Anderson Hall to honor F. Paul Anderson, first dean of the College of Engineering, who died in 1934. Over the years additional buildings were attached to Mechanical Hall (some were built, razed, and replaced) to make up the Engineering Quadrangle. Mechanical Hall was razed in 1964 to make room for the present Anderson Tower.

In the photograph of Mechanical Hall above (Box 11, Item 4666, Louis Edward Nollau Nitrate Photographic Print Collection, University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections), ca. 1930, Miller Hall can be seen in the background.

Dean F. Paul Anderson teaching tricks to his dog Jerry by the sun dial, the spot which was his last resting place, beside Mechanical Hall, June 1929. Jerry died in 1930. (Box 7, Item 3040, Louis Edward Nollau Nitrate Photographic Print University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections)

An earlier Mechanical Hall was built ca. 1868 on the original campus of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, which is now Woodland Park.

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