Campus Gist; Stanford University finally completes the renovation of the historic Kingscote Gardens, the elegant Italian Renaissance, style building on the east side of campus and staff members from 10 university programs have opened offices in the three story building.
The renovation of the 100-year-old apartment building Stanford to consolidate programs that provide services - many of them confidential - for students, faculty and staff in a central location.
Kingscote Gardens, which is the new home of Counseling and Psychological Services, is the new home of Counseling and Psychological Services, with a staff of psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers devoted to student mental health and well-being.
The building is also the home of Institutional Equity and Access and the five programs it oversees, including the Title IX Office and the Office of Sexual Assault and Relationship Abuse Education & Response.
The Faculty Staff Help Center is now located in the building, along with the Office of the Academic Secretary.
The building, which has been updated to meet current seismic safety standards, also sports a new coat of paint - light taupe with white and orange trim.
Kingscote Gardens was the longest continually occupied apartment building, hosting Stanford affiliates from 1917 to 2015.
According to the Stanford Historical Society, Kingscote Gardens was the university's oldest continuously occupied apartment building on campus until 2015, when the university began its relocating residents to make way for the renovation project.
The Historical Society has included the building, landscape and history in its 2016 book, Historic Houses VII: South San Juan Neighborhood and Stock Farm, Stanford University.
The building's history dates back to 1917, when Stanford President Ray Lyman Wilbur authored a lease to the family of Political Science Professor Burt Estes Howard, who had died suddenly, leaving his wife and three young children with no income, according to Stanford Magazine.
Over the years, the building has housed students, faculty, staff and alumni.
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