The Drake School of Journalism and Mass Communication will host a tour on Thursday, July 19, in conjunction with the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions forum in Des Moines. Conference attendees will tour Meredith Hall, which opened in 1965 and was designed by famed architect Mies van der Rohe. The tour will include a discussion of the building’s history and a presentation by architects who are working on plans to update the building. The group will then tour the Scott Chapel at Medbury Hall, which was designed in 1955 by Eero Saarinen.

— Kathleen Richardson, School of Journalism and Mass Communication