Laws Hall (University of Missouri)

Eventually made a co-education residence hall, Laws housed students until the end of the 2015–2016 academic year.

The building was demolished in March 2017 as part the final phase of the university's residence halls master plan.

[3] In June 2013, Laws, Jones, and Lathrop Halls were recommended for demolition as part of the approved Dobbs Replacement Project.

Laws established the observatory and the telescope within it with his personal funds, and he also acquired the Thomas Jefferson headstone while in office.

As president of the university, the autocratic Laws alienated students, faculty and the state legislature.

Laws resigned from his position with the university in 1889 amid a scandal that erupted when he purchased the carcass of a circus elephant named Emperor for $1,685 after the legislature had specifically refused to pay for it.