UI Officials Discuss Preserving Artifacts from Flood-Damaged Hancher: Daily Iowan Reader, Dec. 12

UI officials discuss preserving artifacts from flood-damaged Hancher

The dates for the demolishing and relocating four University of Iowa buildings are set, and officials are discussing how to preserve certain objects salvaged from the wrath of the 2008 flood.

Senior Vice President and University Treasurer Douglas True had briefly laid out a plan about preservations in the last state Board of Regents meeting on Dec. 5.

“One of the things we're doing in the course of this [demolition], is that we've agreed to record histories of these buildings,” True had said during the meeting. “…And take opportunities to preserve objects from these buildings that might be of use in the future or be useful for sale, or to provide to people as mementos of some of these important buildings.”

UI spokesperson Tom Moore said the university aims to preserve, re-use, and even donate objects from the now expended buildings.

This includes completely preserving the Grant Wood Studio in the older Studio Arts building, which FEMA – the main funder of UI flood recovery – has deemed of having historical significance.

“That building was the original part of the structure there,” Moore said, referring to the Grant Wood Studio. “The rest of that structure is primarily made up of additions that were tacked on later. FEMA has determined that building has great historical significance and that is why we are preserving it.”

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