This Victorian-Gothic civic building was finished in 1880 and is still used for legal and social needs. While Regina was getting her marriage license confirmed, I sat outside and did this drawing. As I said before, builders and craftsmen from America's East took their inspiration and created their Eastern college town here. They wanted Lawrence to look like the old home with its own European -style buildings. Even the colors of Kansas U, as Regina explained to me, were meant to recall college life back home. KU colors are dark red and blue, signifying Harvard Crimson and Yale Blue.
Ink and colored pencils on sketchbook page, 4 1/2" x 5", October 13, 1998.
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