An aerial photograph from c.1920 shows the Smith and Sowell houses on Avenue J, long before the university pushed north of Seventeenth Street.
 
 
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Career Services
 
The southeast corner of Bearkat Boulevard (Sixteenth Street) and Avenue J has had a long, interesting history. The Smith sisters (Emma, Mary and Harriet, the latter the namesake of Smith-Kirkley Hall) lived in a house at this location for many years during the early-to-mid 1900s.

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church bought the land after the sisters died and built the present church building in the late 1950s. It is assumed that as the university and church each grew, the congregation moved elsewhere and the university bought the land and maintained the building for the Episcopal Student Center.

In the mid-1980s Episcopal Student Center moved to their present home in the Canterbury House. In the early 1990s the building began life as the University Career Services office.
 
 
919 16th Street
 
 
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1959 - Constructed
19xx-198x - Episcopal Student Center
1994 - Rededicated as Career Planning and Placement Center
 
 
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