The building originally known as the Oread Training High school or Oread High School, was built in 1915 across the street from what would become the Memorial Union on Oread Avenue. Built as a teaching lab for School of Education students, the school's student body largely consisted of faculty children. Student educators spent at least one hour each day teaching at the high school. It was renamed to University High School in 1941 and shut down in 1950, due in part because the School of Education wanted their student teachers to gain more professional development in area public schools.

Later in that same year, 1950, the building was converted to become a Faculty Club, hosting a cafeteria, lounge, dining hall, and other facilities for faculty to use. The club moved off-campus in the late 1960s, and the Endowment Association briefly took over the building.

In the late 1970s or early 1980s, University Relations moved into the Oread building and remained there until 2000. For the next 13 years the building remained known as "University Relations," even though it was now being used for storage. The building was demolished in 2013 due to being declared structurally unsound and a safety hazard.

[Information retrieved from Ben Unglesbee, "Once Home to a University-Run High School, Nearly Century-Old KU Building Demolished," Lawrence Journal-World, August 13, 2013.]