8 Wonders of Kansas Architecture

A project of the Kansas Sampler Foundation, the 8 Wonders of Kansas Architecture is a campaign is to help the world get to know Kansas and to encourage the exploration of the Sunflower State.

Please take a moment and vote here for Dyche Hall on the University of Kansas' Campus. Housing the Kansas University Natural History Museum, Dyche Hall is a Romanesque building completed in 1903 and adorned with carvings of birds, beasts and reptiles.

Dyche Hall is adorned with 6 aedicules, each with the last name of naturalists and overseen by grotesques and was renamed for Lewis Lindsay Dyche after his death in 1915. A flamboyant naturalist, explorer, taxidermist and lecturer, Dyche collected many of the specimens that formed the start of the museum's natural history collections. His expert skill in taxidermy was one of the major highlights of the 1893 world's fair, and many of those same specimens are on display in the Panorama of North America on the fourth floor of Dyche Hall. Dyche is also famous for the preparation of the horse Comanche, cavalry survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Please take a moment to vote for Dyche Hall here