Rice University

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Locations

  1. Academic & Administrative

    1. Abercrombie Engineering Laboratory

      Abercrombie Engineering Laboratory

      Located on the Engineering Quad, this building is easily identified by the limestone relief sculpture on its facade, titled Energy, by William McVey ’27.


      What's there:


      Named for:
      Lilly Frank and J.S. Abercrombie and their daughter, Josephine Abercrombie ’46. J.S. Abercrombie was a Houston oil drilling contractor and president of Cameron Iron Works.


      Built: 1948, Staub & Rather, William Ward Watkin consulting architect


      Rice Campus Map No. 1