Multiple new buildings are taking shape in the Central District on the University of Kansas campus, pictured on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017.

Two of the facilities that were torn down to make way for the University of Kansas’ massive Central District redevelopment project will reappear — if in name only.

The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved names for those and one other new building under construction in the Central District: Stouffer Place Apartments, Cora Downs Residence Hall and the Frank R. Burge Student Union.

The new Central District apartment complex being constructed along 19th Street will be named Stouffer Place Apartments, in honor of the family housing complex that used to be on the hillside between Daisy Hill and Naismith Drive.

The original 25-building Stouffer Place, named after former KU dean Ellis B. Stouffer, opened in 1957 as married-student housing. It eventually opened up to students with children and some single graduate students, as well. The buildings were razed in early 2016.

The new Stouffer Place Apartments — a 708-bed complex featuring private bedrooms with bathrooms, full kitchens and dishwashers — is scheduled for completion in July 2018, according to KU.

The new Central District residence and dining hall under construction behind Oliver Hall will be named Cora Downs Residence Hall, in honor of the first woman to receive a Ph.D. from KU.

The 545-bed Downs Hall, with its new 22,000-square-foot dining center, will open in August for freshmen and returning students, according to KU.

“The historical names, which honor a ground-breaking scientist and an academic dean, fit perfectly with our mission to build learning-centered communities,” KU Student Housing Director Diana Robertson said, in a KU news release. “It is a privilege to honor their legacy.”

Finally, the new Central District student union will be called the Frank R. Burge Student Union, just like the 1979-built union that was torn down to make way for it. Burge was director of the Kansas Memorial Union from 1952 until 1983.

The new 33,000-square-foot Burge Union is slated to open in summer 2018, according to KU. It will feature event space and will be the home of Legal Services for Students, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center and the Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity. It will also include a coffee shop and a convenience store.

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Ellis B. Stouffer: Served KU for 41 years as a teacher, scholar and administrator. He was chairman of the math department, dean of the Graduate School and dean of the University, a position similar to the provost.

Cora Downs: The first woman to receive a Ph.D. from KU, which she earned in 1924 after receiving her undergraduate and master’s degrees from KU. Downs became one of KU’s most outstanding scientists, working first in 1917 as an instructor of bacteriology and rising to become a professor. She remained a member of the faculty until her retirement in 1963, save for a hiatus during World War II when she led 40 scientists in a top secret biological warfare project. Her grandmother, also named Cora Downs, was the first female member of the Kansas Board of Regents.

Frank R. Burge: Director of the Kansas Memorial Union from 1952 until 1983. Credited with building the union into one of the best in the country in facilities and programming. Burge was known as a “one man Welcome Wagon,” and was beloved on campus even well after his retirement.

Source: KU

Demolition equipment begins razing Kansas University's Stouffer Place apartments, the 58-year old, 25-building housing complex, on Tuesday. According to the 2014-2024 KU Campus Master Plan, the area will eventually be home to new science buildings, an open space tentatively dubbed Stouffer Green and some apartments for single students. The unit pictured was located just to the southwest of Hilltop Child Development Center, 1605 Irving Hill Road.

This rendering shows the new apartment complex planned to be constructed in Kansas University’s Central District by fall 2018, on the northwest corner of 19th Street and Ousdahl Drive. This view would be from 19th Street, looking northeast.

Work has begun on clearing the land for a future 50 million KU Central District development project on a site south of Allen Fieldhouse and to the southeast of Daisy Hill. This view, from Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, looks west from the Oliver Hall parking lot and shows KU's Ellsworth and Hashinger residence halls in background right, Stouffer Place Apartments at center right, which are currently being razed and in the foreground the former site of the KU softball and soccer fields. The Central District project will include a new science building, more apartments and residence halls, parking facilities, a new student union building and a utility plant.

This rendering shows the new residence hall and dining center planned to be constructed in Kansas University’s Central District by fall 2017. The new facility will be located at 19th Street and Naismith Drive, behind (and connected to) Oliver Hall. This view would be from 18th Street, looking southwest.

Demolition work begins at the Burge Union in Kansas University's central district, Monday, April 11, 2016. For more on the services and offices housed in the building: http://ljworld.com/burge

This rendering shows what Kansas University's new Central District student union (at left) and integrated science building are planned to look like. Both buildings, located on Irving Hill Road just west of where the recently razed Burge Union stood, are expected to open in time for fall 2018 classes.