Topeka ? Lawmakers gave their blessing Thursday to razing Lindley Hall Annex, which Kansas University has used for years for architecture students even though it is in disrepair.

“Everything is falling apart,” University Architect Warren Corman told the House-Senate Committee on State Building Construction.

The wooden structure was a military cafeteria from World War II that was donated to KU after the war and moved to the campus in 1947 from Coffeyville to southwest of Lindley Hall.

The 10,000-square foot annex “is deteriorating from dry and damp rot and from attacks by termites,” a memo to the committee said.

The windows also are rotting, the roof needs patching, the facility has no central air conditioning and the heating has worn out.

Corman said KU was trying to come up with $100,000 to tear down the building and remove asbestos materials.

He said he hoped the annex could be razed within the year. KU plans to leave the space empty, he said.

Architectural drawing classes that were taught there can be moved to other buildings because the new addition on Learned Hall has freed up space throughout the campus.

Warren Corman, university architect at Kansas University, tells members of a legislative committee of the need to tear down the Lindley Hall Annex at KU. Corman and KU received approval Thursday at the hearing in Topeka to tear down the World War II-era building.