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Built at 78 x 92 feet. Referred to as Mechanical Shops. A 30x70 foot forge shop and foundry were added during 1899, and a connected new Heat, Light, and Power Plant was built then as well.

100x16 ft, with a small 16x30 potting shed at one end. The old forcing house was made part of the structure. Several greenhouses would be attached in the coming decade; an Insectary was added in 1916. Located approximately where Todd Hall and the Todd Addition would later be built.

Thompson Hall is the oldest extant building on campus, designed by noted Seattle architect, James Stephen and his Chicago trained partner, Timotheus Josenhans. Their firm was selected over 16 other entries in an architectural competition held by the Board of Regents. Thompson Hall was constructed for less than $50,000 using local red brick made from clay deposits in back of what is now Stevens Hall. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and renamed Albert W. Thompson Hall on April 15th, 1972 (it was originally known simply as the Administration Building). Thompson served as Dean of Humanities in the College of Sciences and Arts.

Until 1968, it served as the Administration Building as well as housing a number of other university functions.

It is prominently sited and immediately identifiable by its two large towers, one truncated and one with a conical roof. The romantic Victorian Romanesque character of the building is further enhanced by a rich variety of windows and entryways and the use of rock-faced granite (quarried near Spokane) for its contrasting trim.

It was rightly described by the Regents at the June 26th, 1895 dedication as "an excellent piece of work and one that in point of convenience, strength, and architectural beauty compares with any state building."

Today, it has been extensively remodeled inside, but the exterior remains largely intact. It was most recently renovated at a cost of $7,600,000, and rededicated on September 23, 2000. It is one of WSU's most notable buildings, an excellent example of an early ideal in educational architecture.

A commonly told story is that the building's second tower remains uncompleted because the construction contracts of the day left a loophole whereby the college did not have to pay the state for the building until it was completed, and by leaving one tower unfinished, the school never had to pay that money. This is, however, untrue. Original plans called for one of the two towers to end in a platform, and an October 6th, 1893 Pullman Tribune article about the early stages of construction notes that "of the two towers in the building one terminates with a deck to receive the meteorological instruments."

The WSU Veterans Memorial, located just just of Thompson Hall, was dedicated on November 11, 1993 and cost $150,000.

Heat, Light, and Power Plant built at base of hill near railroad tracks. Repurposed as Mining Building in 1899 after a new Heat, Light, and Power Plant was built, connected to Mechanical Hall. It was condemened and abandoned in 1917.

Architects: Stephen and Josenhans. National Register of Historic Places, 1978; Stevens Hall Historic Landmark Dedication on November 8th, 1980. The oldest operating residence hall west of the Mississippi. This was the first women's dormitory. Formerly the boys and girls had been quartered on separate floors in Old Ferry. The building was constructed in the summer of 1895 at a cost of 420,000. Named for Isaac I. Stevens, first governor of Washington territory. Port Cochere removed in 1945.

Stevens Hall is the oldest dormitory and second oldest building still standing on campus. It is named after Isaac Stevens, first territorial governor. Aside from a year-long closure for rehabilitation work in 1958, the resilience hall has been in continuous use since its completion.

Its design is an eclectic combination of several styles including Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Shingle. It possesses irregular massing, multiple gabled and gambrel roof formations, and a rich interplay of wall surfaces. It was constructed for less than $20,000 out of brick manufactured from clay deposits on the site, local basalt, Puget Sound fir and red cedar shingles.

Enclosure of the second floor solarium and replacement of the wood shingles of the roof and upper wall surfaces have compromised its architectural integrity, but have not lessened the importance of Stevens Hall to the historic development of the campus. In addition to its primary function as a residence hall, it served as the early social center of the campus, the site of receptions, state conventions, and annual dinners for faculty and administrators. It remains a dignified, yet unpretentious, reminder of the campus formative years.

Architect: G. Bullard. Built at cost of $60,000, dedicated June 20th, 1900. Originally Science Hall, it was built to serve the biological sciences and geology, to house the museum and provide a temporary home for the Departments of Agriculture, Horticulture and Veterinary Science. The third floor of the south wing was used for three college literary societies. Elevated seats, removed in 1964, were located in a large semi-circular room on the south wing of the first floor for observation of veterinary clinics and animal husbandry demonstrations. Its science functions were taken over by a new Science building in about 1935, after which it became Arts Hall. It was renamed in 1972 after the famous news broadcaster, Edward R. Murrow, one of our best known alumni.

By the 1960s it was home of WSU's Radio and Television Services. Transmitter and studios of KWSC-TV in building; antenna atop Bryan Hall tower. Collegiate training in radio broadcasting began at WSU; KWSC is one of the oldest of educational broadcasting stations.

Like several early buildings, it has double hung windows with straight lintels on lower floors and arched heads on the upper level. Its design is simple and restrained, but it gains its interest from the projecting bow fronted wings on either end of the east facade facing "Hello Walk." An interesting detail is to be seen in the original rainwater heads, which have been preserved. On the west side, the former main entrance is obscured by the somewhat overwhelming Murrow Communications Building of 1972. The original Murrow Hall and that newer Murrow Communications Building, both connected by an upper level walkway are commonly referred to as Murrow East and Murrow West, respectively.

Architects: [Timotheus] Josenhans and [Norris B.] Allen. Although construction on this building began in 1901 it was not completed and furnished until 1903. Dedicated June 16, 1903; it was originally the Chemistry Building. Named for Senator Justin S. Morrill, whose 1862 Act of Congress provided basic law under which State College came into existence as a land grant institution. Cost, $33,000. Ca. 1960s, it housed the Police Science and Geology Departments.

It was originally built as a chemistry laboratory (known then as the Chemistry Building) and has served many functions since. As the fourth oldest building on campus, it helped establish the tradition of dignified red brick buildings at WSU. Standing on a basalt plinth, its facade is organized by a series of piers and arches rising through two stories. The double hung windows with arched heads on the second floor are recessed between the piers. Under the eaves is an elaborate arrangement of projecting courses and blind arches. The $1,975,000 rehabilitation of Morrill Hall in 1981 was carried out with great care. The wood windows were retained and the structural work required to bring it up to the standards required by the Seismic Code was skillfully done.

Architects: J.K. Dow & C.Z. Hubbell. The growing importance of veterinary science necessitated the construction of a separate classroom and hospital building. It cost $11,000. Built as the Veterinary Building, which provided for surgery and other animal hospital facilities, it later became Old Veterinary Building, then Counseling/Career Services Building (Services Building); named Administrative Annex (or Ad. Annex) in 1963. Reworked in 1964 for projected $609,000. Torn down in 2009.

The structure went through a series of functional use over the years, which included university administration offices and building and grounds services. Ad Annex was one of the oldest structures within the historic campus core. Its scale complemented the open space to the north of its main entrance. Its modest mass created a compatible edge to this significant open space located at the western end of the CUB Mall further enclosed by Murrow East and Bryan Hall.

Architect: J.K. Dow & D.Z. Hubbell. Cost, $25,000.

This building was first constructed for the Home Economics courses as the Domestic Economy Building. At the time, it was the only building dedicated entirely to this discipline west of Chicago. It was later named for Mrs. Nancy L. Van Doren, preceptress, professor of English, and librarian at the start of the college. It was the first campus building named for a woman. It housed Music in 1960s before that moved to Kimbrough. Van Doren is a significant building within the historic campus core, which defines the northern edge of the original quadrangle east of Bryan Hall. This building follows an unusual combination of styles and detailing in comparison to the other historic structures, making it a unique example within the core. The Flemish bond pattern of yellow and maroon brick, with the mixing of medieval with Italianate design style, creates an interesting architectural statement. At one time the scale of Van Doren was more in balance with its spatial surroundings. Today, however, the mass of Holland Library is somewhat over-powering and the original sense of scale has been lost.

Built at cost of $12,000. Originally known as the Hydraulics Building or Hydraulics Laboratory; not to be confused with subsequent Albrook Hydraulics Laboratory. Later Chemical Engineering (ca. 1980), later the Multicultural Center. According to Engineering professor James Woodburn in 1931, the building was designed by student Neil McNamara (class of 1910), under the supervision of Prof. Osmer Waller.

The Hydraulic Building was designed as a plain two-story brick structure with many windows and a sloping roof at the center of which was a square cupola. The cupola served as an extension roof and cover for the stand pipe 45 feet high which regulates the flow of water in the hydraulics laboratory. This building is valuable as the only remaining example of the simple, small-scale structures from the early days of the campus. With its basalt base, red brick walls and hipped roof, it conforms to well established WSU traditions. The only elaboration is in projecting brick courses on the first floor walls, which give relief to their surface. Yet it is a fine example of an unpretentious building of real architectural quality. The excellent proportions and human scale are reminiscent of Georgian architecture. It is well related in scale and complements a foil to its neighbor Morrill Hall. It provides a satisfying counterpoint to its more modern neighbors.

The Farm Barn, later the College Barn, Dairy Barn, or Horse Barn, was completed in late 1908. In 1909, it was expanded by the addition of two wings to the rear of it. The Barn would be intentionally razed by fire in late Spring of 1946, to allow Stadium Way to be connected through. The number of campus barns with similar names make it difficult to track individual barns with certainty, but a photo of this as a "New Barn" can be found in the 1908-12-18 Pullman Herald.

In post-1909 pictures, the shape of the Farm Barn is very similar to the shape of the Beef Cattle Barns (1922-1924 and 1925-; the latter would become the Lewis Alumni Centre), which leads it to be photographically mistaken for those better known barns. They are easy to tell apart, however - the Farm Barn is dark in color, while the Beef Cattle Barns are quite light in color.

The Farm House, on the right in this picture, was built in 1892 It has to have been removed somewhere between 1952 and 1958.

Architect: J.K. Dow. Dedicated on June 9th, 1909. The Auditorium and Library Building was erected on the second site of old College Hall at a total cost of $130,000. Despite tales that the clock was not installed until 1912, it can be seen in the 1910-1911 yearbook. It was named in honor of Dr. E.A. Bryan, president emeritus of the college, by the board of regents on May 12, 1916. Ca. the 1960s it was headquarters for Department of Speech and some faculty of Department of Music.

Bryan Hall, built in 1909, is symbolically the dominant structure of the historic campus core. Originally built as the principal library and assembly hall, it commemorates Dr. E. A. Bryan, who was president from 1893 to 1916 and was responsible for the development of WSU to a major educational institution. It was designed by the leading Spokane architect, John K. Dow, who followed traditions already established at WSU, yet gave the building an individual character. This highly eclectic building is not dominated by a single style. The broad bracketed eaves, the round arched windows link it with the Italianate Style. The tall clock tower is clearly related to the Italian Campanile. However, it would be reasonable to see this as a unique and imaginative structure. Particularly fine is the elaborate bracketing under the eaves which may even have resulted from an oriental inspiration.

Architect: J.K. Dow. Dedicated on June 9th, 1909. Erected at a cost of 115,000, the New Recitation building gave much needed classroom space for liberal arts studies. Ca. 1963 this was home of the College of Pharmacy, and part of the English Department.

Built under President Bryan as the 'Recitation Hall' in the same year as Bryan Hall, this building further demonstrates Bryan's contribution to the university. Both buildings were designed by J. K. Dow, one of the more distinguished of the architects who worked here. However, College Hall is more restrained than Bryan. It adopts the vocabulary used at Morrill Hall five years earlier, but with more assurance and sophistication. It is a fine example of Georgian Revival in which good proportions and simple lines dominate. Interest is added to the facade by the alternation of arched and square headed windows on the three floors and by the decorative use of Flemish bond in contrasting bricks under the eaves. It has a fine classical cornice and a flat roof.

The two classical entrance porticos are located on the northern facade facing what at one time was the major quadrangle on campus. In 1983, College Hall was rehabilitated with great care for the Anthropology Department. The original double hung windows were duplicated, retaining the integrity of the exterior. In the interiors, the original oak detailing was replicated in a manner that evokes the traditional feeling. College Hall is a significant structure within the core forming the southern edge of a highly significant open space.

A $3,500,000 renovation was finished in January of 1984 for the Department of Anthropology.

Although construction was begun in 1912 it was not ready for opening until 1913. Cost, $25,000. Architect: Rudolph Weaver. Building also refered to as President's Residence or President's House.

Architect: Rudolph Weaver. This building was begun in 1914 but lack of continuing appropriations postponed its completion until 1916-1917. The hall cost $150,000.

Wilson Hall is the twin of Carpenter Hall and like that building was unfinished for several years. The third floor was added in 1920. When contruction began, a June 10th, 1914 ceremomy dedicated it after James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture from 1897 to 1913. It served as an agriculture and horticulture building. On September 18, 2009 it was rededicated as Wilson-Short Hall after James F Short Jr., of WSU's Sociology department. In the original design, Weaver proposed a glass-walled stock judging pavilion projecting from the rear of the building, but partly enclosed in the recess formed by the U-shaped plan. This was not completed.

The first use of the unfinished structure in 1917 was to teach vocational skills to soldiers and for a while it served as a military barracks. However, after the war it became the headquarters for nine agriculture departments and served the entire Pacific Northwest as an agricultural information and resource center.

Unlike Carpenter Hall, the grand entry to the second floor level was carried out. A flight of steps leads up to an impressive doorway with a broken pediment. This is probably the only feature on campus which could be described as Baroque.

Architect: Rudolph Weaver. Initial work not completed until 1915; dedicated June 9th, 1915. Cost, $150,000.

Carpenter Hall was one of seven buildings designed by the first University architect and first chair of the Architecture Department, Rudolph Weaver. As a cost-saving measure, it was planned as a twin to Wilson Hall, but because of wartime building restrictions, neither was completed until 1926. First known as Mechanic Arts (or Mechanical Arts) Building, it was named on October 22nd, 1949 after H. V. Carpenter, the first dean of the College of Mechanic Arts and Engineering.

It is a fine classical structure of red brick which bolsters the southwest corner of the campus core on Spokane Street. Using the first floor as a strong base and uniting the three upper floors by means of giant pilasters between the windows, Weaver has produced a bold effect. The strong terra cotta cornice caps the facade confidently. The use of ornament elsewhere is restrained. A grand entry at second floor level, as at Wilson Hall, was planned but never executed. Presumably, the steep slope to the west and its orientation away from the rest of the campus made it impractical. In this building, the Georgian and Classic Revival vocabularies have been skillfully adapted to the needs of a large university building.

Originally known as Practice Cottage. May have been known as the McKay House? Originally located where Community Hall stands, Practice Cottage was moved across the street to its final location in 1920, and was eventually renamed as the Home Management House until it became a weaving laboratory in 1968. It was razed in 1982. It was located on south side of Campus Avenue, between what is now McCroskey Hall and Honors Hall. This should not be confused with the Home Economics House and Home Economics Experimental House, both of which were located on Columbia Street.

Built in late 1918 and early 1919 was a YMCA building; this was on the "alumni fields," which were tennis courts until 1918, near the book store. The two-story building was contained a 500 person auditorium, billiard room, and a "moving picture machine." Its official opening was Feb. 21, 1919, and its dedication was on March 16th, 1919. Internal pictures of this building can be found on page 7 of the April 9, 1919 Evergreen.

This was later converted to a dorm in 1921 to provide quarters for 62 men, and then to a women's dorm in 1922. Known then as the Stevens Hall Annex, and later just as the Annex, it was torn down in the mid 1930s. Wilmer-Davis Hall was erected on this location.

Architect: Rudolph Weaver. Built as a women's dormitory; since at least 1917 women unable to get into Stevens Hall had been staying at Willard House, on Colorado Street a block outside the northeast campus gate. Cost almost $150,000.

It was named for R.C. McCroskey, a prominent Garfield rancher and banker who was a member of the Board of Regents from 1897 to 1905 and 1909 to 1922. He also served in the state senate in the 1891 and 1893 sessions. It is the second oldest residence hall on campus, with only Stevens Hall, completed in 1896 and Ferry Hall completed in 1900, but razed in 1975, preceding it. Its location on the western periphery of the campus core, as a single structure, makes it one of the more physically outstanding residence halls, since it is one of the few that is not part of a complex of buildings.

Like Weaver's other buildings, the design is Neo-Classical. The north-facing entry is accented with a fine central feature of stone pilasters. Elsewhere the pilasters are brick with stone capitals. The very heavy entablature below the attic story seems overscaled, particularly as it is now painted (1985).

Architect: Rudolph Weaver. Community Hall, located in the Duncan Dunn and Wilmer-Davis residential complex at the northwest edge of the historic campus core, was originally built as a residence hall for women. Like the other buildings within this complex, Community continues to serve its residential purpose. It was constructed under the Self-Amortization Plan that was first developed at WSU and later became the adopted method for financing the construction of university structures throughout the nation. The Self-Amortization Plan was the brainchild of Regent McCroskey, Bursar Kruegal and President Holland. The original group of 25 stockholders consisted of university and business people from Pullman who formed the Community Building Corporation. Each stockholder held two shares of $100 each. The corporation sold bonds for the construction of Community Hall. The bonds were self-retiring from dorm rental and dining hall income. This spirit of "town and gown" cooperation was further demonstrated by the construction of Stimson Hall, Commons, Duncan Dunn and Waller under the same funding plan.

This four-story building of classical proportions is sited with the main entrance facing to the south having access onto College Avenue. The building mass is symmetrically balanced around the central front portico, which is approached by a relatively long flight of stairs opening onto an entry terrace. A cupola over the entrance accents the symmetry of the structure. Facade detailing in the classical mode with brick, wood and courses of ashlar set the precedent for the later structures in the residential complex: Duncan Dunn and Wilmer-Davis.

Community was renovated between 2010 and 2012, at which time connecting halls were added between the two at the east and west ends, creating a central enclosed open-air courtyard. The conjoined buildings' official reopening ceremony was held on August 23, 2012.

Architect: Rudolph Weaver. Named for Fred S. Stimson, former regent. Cost, $150,000. Men's dorm; initially housed 257. Stimson Hall is the oldest extant men's dormitory on campus, named for Regent Fred S. Stimson. It was built by Community Company on the Self-Amortization Plan (see Community Hall). The building is sited on College Avenue, once surrounded by City of Pullman subdivision plats.

This U-shaped, red brick building is a pleasing mixture of the Colonial and Renaissance Revival Styles popular in the 1920s. It has retained its architectural integrity to a marked degree. The cupola and thirteen dormers with tracery windows remain intact as do the bay windows and arched door at the entry level. Charming arched walkthroughs at the inner corners of the U provided convenient access and frame the views beyond.

Classical symmetry and a sunny, south-facing orientation combine to make Stimson Hall the most inviting of the residence halls. Stimson was closed in 1983 for needed rehabilitation. Because of its location in the midst of the campus core, it was considered for conversion to office space. To date, retention of Stimson Hall as residential space continues to be upheld and working drawings for its residential rehabilitation are being prepared.

Alumni have demonstrated great loyalty to Stimson. This popularity is due to a unique form of student government and the physical layout of the hall with its bed and study sites. Upperclassmen moved upstairs to coveted quiet space on the top floor.

Internal renovations to Stimson were completed in spring of 1986 at a cost of $4,000,000.

Architect: Stanley Smith. Another community project. Dining room for both men and women living in dormitories. Cost, $150,000. Also known as the Brick Commons (to delineate it from Stadium Commons, which existed from the 1940s to 1960s) or just the Commons.

This massive three-story structure is located at the corner of Columbia and Idaho Streets at the southwest edge of the historic campus core. The relatively isolated site condition of the structure may be due, in part, to the original character of the surrounding site, which by 1929 was a subdivision plat that extended uphill towards Waller Hall. Commons was originally built as a large dining hall and apartment complex under the Self-Amortization Plan (see Community Hall). The upstairs apartments were let to citizens of the community demonstrating the cooperation of the "town and gown" which was prevalent during this period. The overall classical motif of the architectural detailing on the facade is enhanced by the palladian windows that run on the north and east elevations at the first floor level. There are two main entrances to the building to the north and to the east. Today, the large four-story building mass of Commons and its characteristic classical detailing combine to identify the southwest edge of the historic campus core.

Architect: K. Zittle (with Stanley Smith). On December 10th, 1926, Troy Hall was dedicated after David S. Troy, a dairyman from Port Townsend and a member of the WSU Board of Regents from 1910-1916, who later became a State Representative and a State Senator. Troy Hall was originally used as the dairy building and for many years housed the popular WSU Creamery, Ferdinand's; it also housed chemistry classes. The vertical classical detailing of the facade accentuates the prominent siting of the structure, especially when seen from Stadium Way. The structure forms an anchor to the historic core on the southeast boundary and creates a strong visual link to Wilson Hall, located uphill from Troy. The main entrance to the building faces to the south onto College Avenue, although a major pedestrian traffic flow enters the building from the north. The south entrance portico in the classical style is enframed by two elegant, five-globe light standards. Troy Hall remains an important contributing structure that marks the boundary to the historic core at this edge of campus.

Architect: Stanley Smith. First built as "New Dorm" in 1926, at cost of $150,000, also known simply as Women's Residence Hall. Originally constructed as a girls' dormitory, housed 140.

In 1933, the structure was named for the first WSU alumnus (class of 1902) to serve on the Board of Regents (1917, 1923-1928), Adam Duncan Dunn. It was constructed under the Self-Amortization Plan (see Community Hall). The architectural facade detailing is in the traditional classical mode of the, WSU historic core, incorporating brick and courses of ashlar with double hung windows. The structure complements the residential complex of the community and Wilmer-Davis at the northwest edge of the campus. The main entrance to the building faces to the north with access onto Linden Avenue. The entry portico is an elegant Georgian style addition that adds great charm to the structure. The southern facade includes a solarium and a large terrace for social gatherings at the second level. Duncan Dunn serves its site well in maintaining the integrity of the architectural mass and detailing of this major residential complex within the historic campus core.

Duncan Dunn was renovated between 2010 and 2012, at which time connecting halls were added between the two at the east and west ends, creating a central enclosed open-air courtyard. The conjoined buildings' official reopening ceremony was held on August 23, 2012.

Architect: Stanley Smith. Cost, $450,000. Housed Men's Physical Education and Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Originally known simply as the Gymnasium. Addition added ca. 1997.

Named on Oct. 12, 1946 for J. Fred (Doc) Bohler, the nationally known WSU Coach and Director of Athletics who devoted forty-two years to physical education and sport at WSU, Bohler gym has played a significant role in the history of Cougar sports. Housing a basketball court, swimming pool, handball courts and office, it still has an important role in WSU athletics.

This massive red brick building is ornamented with terra cotta and cut stone. The renaissance revival window surrounds with alternating plain and broken pediments are surprisingly opulent. The original entrance with sculptural decoration faced west.

The architect, Stanley Smith, was the second University architect. Between 1924 and 1947, he completed fourteen major buildings at WSU. Bohler was the first of the three athletics buildings he built on the north side of the campus. With Bohler, Hollingbery Fieldhouse and Smith Gym, he gave a strong definition to the edge of the campus core.

Architect: Stanley Smith. Cost, $235,000. Originally known as the Home Economics Building, White Hall was renamed on October 27, 1960 for the nationally known cooperative extension leader, M[ary] Elmina White. In 2000, White Hall was remodeled at a cost of $15,300,000 for use by the Honors College to include a 117 student / 67 room dormitory area for the Honors Program Students (it was renamed Honors Hall for fall semester, 2001). This impressive structure forms an important anchor at the northwest edge of the academic core. The main entrance to the building faces westerly overlooking the city of Pullman. However, today the major pedestrian flow approaches the building from the east into the back of the structure. The building mass encloses the north side of one of the university's most significant open spaces, the original walk to Thompson Hall, the Old Administration Building, from Reaney Park between the campus and downtown Pullman. The brick building mass is symmetrically balanced, making a cross formation with the central section protruding on the east/west axis. The overall style of the building is Georgian Revival, which creates an elegant architectural statement.

Architect: Stanley Smith. Constructed by Associated Students at cost of $200,000. Annex added ca. 1980.

This building was built in 1929 and known simply as the Fieldhouse (or Field House) until it was named on November 8, 1963 for the University's noted football coach from 1926-42, "Babe" Hollingbery. In 17 seasons his teams won 99 games, lost 57, and tied 19. He developed several All-Americans, took his 1930 team to the Rose Bowl and was instrumental in establishing the East-West Shrine Football Game.

Hollingbery Fieldhouse was the foundation of the Physical Education, Intramural and Recreation programs at the university. It has been heavily used over the years, especially during the winter months as the primary indoor practice training facility, as a drill field for the ROTC Programs and as an intramural field. In World War II, it was used extensively as a drill field and as physical education exercise facility for the armed services. It is an imposing structure, much less ornate than the adjacent Bohler Gym, almost having the character of an industrial building. Its pitched roof echoes the form of Smith Gym and it gives a strong corner to the campus core.

Architects: Whitehouse and Price. Originally four stories at $230,000. Housed Department of Chemistry. Originally known as Chemistry Hall, or New Chemistry Hall.

During graduation week of 1948 (May 29-30). this building was named for the head of the Department of Chemistry and Dean of Faculty at Washington State University. Elton Fulmer, a nationally known chemist, served the institution from 1893 until his death in 1916. He wrote the state's pure food laws. A six-story addition containing 79,103 square feet for housing additional teaching and research laboratories was completed in 1961 and cost $2,200,000. The dedication for that addition was held during a Northwest Region meeting of the American Chemical Society, held June 18-20, 1962.

The building is located in the core of the campus and is a significant contribution to the natural sciences core, which include physics, geology, the biological sciences and chemistry.

Fulmer Hall is a good representative of American architecture of the thirties. The classical language already established on the campus is the basis of its design, but the vocabulary has been reworked in a contemporary way. The entry facade to the north exhibits a pedimented central door, capitals of an original type and over the top floor windows ornamental roundels illustrating themes from chemistry.

Architects: Rigg and Vantyne. Four stories for $270,000.

Known as New Science until 1947, and then just as Science Hall until being renamed Abelson Hall (jointly after Philip and Neva Abelson) on Spet. 6, 2002, was built at a cost of $270,000, most of which came from State Emergency Relief and Public Words Act funds. It is a red brick background building overwhelmed by its 1984 triple-decker rooftop addition. It does continue to provide some sense of continuity to the campus core through the original buildings use of traditional WSU materials. However, this building, like some of the others of the later period, lacks the fine architectural quality established here at the turn of the century.

Abelson houses the Charles R. Connor Museum, named for the 1893-1894 president of the Board of Regents, who started the museum in 1893 with two car loads of specimens from that year's Chicago Exposition. The museum was initially in fourth floor Thompson, moved to Murrow in 1990, and then to Abelson in 1935/1936.

Architect: Stanley Smith. Cost: $175,000 (Community Project). Originally just known as New Men's Dormitory. Housed 300. The overpass crossing Stadium Way right below Waller was built ca. 1965 or 1967, and demolished on Dec. 23, 2012.

Waller Hall was constructed as a men's residence under the Self-Amortization Plan (see Community Hall). It was named for Osmer L. Waller, former vice president of the University. Waller Hall continues to be a men's residence to this day. The U-shape building mass replicates the form of Stimson Hall, although the quality of the open space within the U-shape at Waller has been lost somewhat because of its eastern orientation which leaves the space in shade during a good portion of the day. Waller Hall provides an example of historic architecture at an important entry point into the campus. This quality could be reinforced or negated by future alterations in the traffic pattern or future building in the area. The Colonial Revival style of architecture is strongly related to Stimson Hall and echoes the use of the traditional campus materials of brick, wood and courses of ashlar.

Architect: Stanley Smith (with John Maloney). Named for regents A.W. Davis and F.J. Wilmer. Wilmer housed 95 students, and Davis 100. Cost $350,000 (Community Project). Referred to as "New Women's Dormitory."

The Wilmer-Davis residential complex was built at the same time as "twin" residence halls for women under the Self-Amortization Plan (see Community Hall). The U-shape follows the sample of Waller Hall and Stimson, although the building mass at Wilmer-Davis is much larger. The interior open space is oriented to the south and maintains a pleasantly warm, micro-climate during the colder months of the year. The structure sits impressively on its site at the corner of Linden Avenue, Thatuna Road and Campus Avenue, anchoring the northeast and northwest sides of the women's residential complex. This cluster of buildings is tied together with the same classical and Georgian Revival architectural themes composed of brick, wood and courses of ashlar. In addition, Wilmer-Davis, by its sheer building mass and architectural detailing, reinforces McCroskey Hall, which is located to the south across Campus Avenue, and identifies an important entry point into the academic campus core.

Architect: Stanley Smith. This building was most interesting for its social history. A direct result of the Depression, it was a $30,000 project of the National Youth Administration, providing vocational training for fifty high school graduates. It was used as a cooperative group home for men (housing 87) until 1963, when it became the Anthropology Research Lab (or Center for Northwest Anthropology). It was located on the northeast corner of Spokane and Washington Streets, and torn down in 1998.

It is a simple framed structure of domestic scale well proportioned but of little distinction. It does not conform in its use of materials or architectural style to the architectural character of the majority of campus buildings. Its most notable feature is the central hall paneled with rich, knotty pine.

Architect: Stanley Smith. Cost, $400,000. Housed Women's Physical Education Department.

Smith Gymnasium was the first women's physical education building, and named on October 15th, 1961 for Helen G. Smith, Chair of the Department of Physical Education for Women, 1928-61. It was previously just known as the Women's Gymnasium. Architect: Stanley Smith.

The building features brick corbelling, a large stone cornice, and geometrically patterned brickwork spandrels, but it is the south facing entrance that is of particular interest. The entrance is approached over a concrete bridge and is a rare campus gesture towards Art Deco Style. The floor is flanked with pilasters; over the door is a low relief stylized sculpture of five female figures with Greek key and Deco sunrise motifs.

Smith Gymnasium is one of a group of athletic buildings that define the northern boundary of the campus core. Its north elevation repeats the high gabled profile of Hollingbery Fieldhouse at the other end of the complex, strengthening the sense of edge.

Architect: Henry Bertleson (Guller & Associates). Named for John E. McCoy. Two story brick masonry structure, with steel and wood joists. Flat roof. Flush-wall brick exterior. Metal-frame windows and wood doors. Doorways accented by stone work alternated with brick in a horizontal pattern, commonly called "the stripes." Window ventilation. Originally called Veterinary Clinic, the building remains such but now has many additions to one end and the rear. Despite the many additions (including one added in 1961/1964 at a cost of $1,685,000), the original building is little changed. Many room air conditioners extend from windows.

Architect: Whitehouse and Price. Three-story, reinforced concrete with face brick. Exterior design copies older masonry buildings of the Classical/Georgian design, including Wilson Hall and Fulmer Hall. Library addition ca. 1964 provided library stacks and reading room for College of Veterinary Medicine and was pre-estimated to cost $103,200. Remodeled ca. 1982 (or 1986-88) at a cost of $8,600,000 to accommodate forced air ventilation. Exterior trim in limestone featuring carved heads of domestic animals. The Stadium Way overpass between Troy and Wegner was funded in Spring 1972 and probably constructed in 1973.

Architect: Archie Rigg, of Rigg and Van Tyne. Two one-story brick masonry buildings of a long, narrow footprint. Both have a ninety-degree gable roof with "Georgian" false chimney endwalls. The design matched earlier engineering lab buildings, since demolished, and the adjacent Thermal Building.

West, North, and South Houses were all erected in 1946-1947 from former buildings at Farragut. South Hall sat on the south side of Farm Way (later Grimes Way), where the Bustad parking lot now sits.

War Surplus dormitory that sat on the site later occupied by the French Administration Building. It was occupied in fall of '63 by members of a fraternity; demolished in early 1964.

War Surplus dormitory that sat on the Stadium Way site later occupied by Fine Arts and the adjoining parking lot. Completed in October, 1946 at a cost of $30,000. Cost included site preparation and utility cxontruction only: the Federal Public Housing Authority moved the building from Vancouver, Washington, and re-erected it on its WSU site at no cost to the college. 56,280 sq. feet. 88 single rooms, 134 double rooms. 2 head resident suites, 2 counselor quarters, 4 lounges, 4 laundries. Originally used as a women's dormitory.

Architect: Stanley Smith. Originally known as Smith Agricultural Engineering Building (or Agricultural Engineering Laboratory Building) . Concrete block and woodframe structure, with brick and clapboard exterior. Two stories, with sloped roof. West-facing wall is largely glass--actually very large windows--between two massive-appearing brick faced structures. Central area designed for use as a machine shop with natural light. A large addition abuts the rear of the building.

Another former building from Farragut. East House was due east of North House, right beside it.

Housed staff of Psychology Department until such time as Comparative Behavior Laboratory and Todd Hall Addition were completed. Until early 1960s it also housed College of Education as "Old Education Building." Built in 1942 the structure served as a dispensary at the U.S. Navy’s Farragut Training Station at Lake Pend Oreille, near Sandpoint, Idaho. It was acquired as surplus property from the government in 1947, cut into sections and moved to Pullman and re-erected on its site on the north side of Washington Street, between Nevada and Idaho streets on the south side of the campus. It was to have been temporary, a structure to help the university cope with the post-war bulge of GI’s returning to school. It was demolished in August, 1974.

Dining Hall, located east of Stadium Way across from West Hall. Building moved here from Vancouver, WA. Closed in 1961 with the completion of the Hall Rotunda.

Architect: John Maloney. As of 1963, this was the largest classroom building on campus. Also headquarters for College of Economics and Business and departments of history, political science, sociology and anthropology. Building named for former Dean of College of Sciences and Arts, C.C. Todd.

Four story, reinforced concrete classroom building with flush-wall brick exterior, relieved by large limestone panels, some of which have been removed and replaced by brick. Limestone trim also used at cornices and around some entryways and windows. The original interior of Todd Hall was one of very long central hallways with classrooms on one side and faculty offices along the other side, brought out into very public position.

Much remodeled ca. 1970. Largely obscured from public view by the $5,600,000 33,770 sq. foot Todd Hall addition of June, 1988 - December, 1990, which combines design features of Todd Hall with those of the adjoining Wilson Hall and College Hall. Architect for the addition was David Hall of the Henry Klein Partnership, Architects, of Mount Vernon, WA; contractor was CD Contractors, Inc., of Helena, MT. The remodeled version is more one in which the hallways terminate into office suites part way along the length of the building. At the mid-point in the length of the building, the central hallway is interrupted by a brick feature composed of walls, doors, stairs, mechanical system elements and so on. rch The foyer of the original main entry has been retained. It features pink wall tile and aluminum gratework over cast iron radiators. The pink wall tile is also found in the restrooms. A limestone relief statue "Prometheus," that originally was located over the main door remains in position inside the building over the entry to the original main foyer.

Architect: Whitehouse and Price. Named in honor of Mr. Homer Dana, former director of the Engineering Experiment Station. Headquarters for College of Engineering, Division of Industrial Research and Physics Department. Contains many laboratories where research for Northwest Industry is conducted. Also known as Technology Building, or the Institute of Technology Building. Naming ceremony: Sept 30, 1960.

Long-narrow building, two stories with high attic area now serving as third story. Reinforced concrete with face brick. Constructed with potential for forced air ventilation, but not installed. Steam radiator heating. Flush-wall brick exterior, with large "industrial" metal-framed windows. Distinctive entries with relief craved aluminum featuring engineering themes. These panels are set in an area of limestone panels of vertically oriented fluting. The entryways are sometimes floodlighted for effect. The interior is characterized by green tile walls and rough-finish plaster ceilings. Since largely unmodified, except for the third floor attic and the union where it adjoins later construction at the north end. Room air conditioners protrude from many windows.

The athletic field in that spot dates to March 1892, when the state college defeated Pullman's military college there, 26-0 in baseball. The first bleachers were erected in 1900, on the southeast corner. A south grandstand was built in 1921, and a north grandstand in 1926. The south stands were reworked in 1936. The south stands were severely damaged by arson on April 4th, 1970. Remodels of rest of stadium occurred in 1972 (South Stands, by NBBJ), 1975 (North Stands, by NBBJ, cost $1,490,000), 1990, 2000, 2007, 2012 (southside luxury boxes and pressbox). Formerly known as Rogers Field (1902-1972), and as Soldiers Field before that. This listing of constructions and remodels is likely far from complete.

Holland Library was built between 1948 (first groundbreaking was September 24, 1947) and 1950 (the dedication ceremeony occurred on May 28th, 1950 at 10:15 AM), and was named after the former Washington State College President Ernest O. Holland. Designed by John Maloney, Holland Library was one of the first buildings to be constructed with modern functional architecture. It cost $2,600,000 and was designed to house 1,500,000 volumes and seat 2,200 students at one time.

The Library's most distinctive detail is a 30-foot high statue on the West side, near the original main entrance. This statue was designed by Seattle artist Dudley Pratt, and officially named "The Reader." It was carved in Bedford, Indiana, the source of the limestone used on this and several other campus buildings, especially Todd Hall and Smith Gym. The statue has long been known informally as "Nature Boy." The name may be recognized by popular music fans as a famous song recorded by Nat King Cole in 1948.

Officially dismantled in July, 1987, this had been vacant since the death of Butch VI in 1978. This was located just northeast of Martin Stadium. An earlier cage had sat on the hill above and to the south of the west end of Rogers Field. That cage was replaced by the Stadium Way cage during the summer of 1950.

Wilson Compton Union Building. Architect: John W. Maloney (1957 and 1967-1968 remodels also by Maloney). Remodeled again in 2006-2008.

Opened September 15th, 1952, and officially dedicated on October 25th of that year. Originally three story, now four story, reinforced concrete structure. The building is set on the edge of a cliff-like slope, and the downhill side overhangs this slope in many places. Much changed from remodeling in 1957, and major addition and remodel in 1967-68. Flush-wall one-color brick exterior, with no corner or cornice trim. Sandstone around principal entryways. Some panels of painted concrete. Strip windows in places. The front of the building has mainly glass walls on the lower floor, above which a glass and steel-panel wall constitutes the exterior of the second floor. The lower glass is from the remodeling of 1957.

At the east end of the building, a large box-like structure without windows houses a theater that was added in the remodeling of 1967. The exterior of this box is largely painted concrete of a terra cotta color.

Architect: Paul Thiry. Three buildings, two dormitories (Barnard, McGregor) and one cafeteria (Stearns). Housed 396 students. Painted concrete exterior with semi-strip windows. Built into the side of a hill, the dormitories are long buildings of four stories of residence space set on "piers" one story above ground. The two building met at the corner to make a V-pattern at an angle of about 100 degrees. In the open end of the angle, open decks spanned the two buildings. In the inner side of the angle, a Japanese rock garden, since overgrown, was placed on a slope through with stairs and walkway lead uphill to the cafeteria building.

Architect: Phil [Philip] Keene. Laminated wood beam structure supporting a plywood dome. A history of the origins of the Jewett Observatory (and the Dana/Todd planetarium) can be found in the Mathematics Notes from Washington State University Vol. 23 #3 (August 1980), available in MASC (WSU 108) or in the Owen Library (call number QA1.M382x).

Also known as Cattle Diseases Building

Named for Dean Charles E. McAllister (former President of the Board of Regents) and William C. Kruegel (Bursar of the College, instrumental in financing the Pullman Community Building Company, a nonprofit corporation set up to build WSC residence halls). Dormitories housed 207 students each in about 47,000 sq. feet each. Jointly dedicated with Neill Hall on April 28, 1957. Architects: Victor Jones & Lloyd Lovegren.

Named for Judge Thomas Neill, one of the leaders most instrumental in bringing the college to Pullman. Dormitory housed 207 students; 45,786 sq. feet. Neill, Kruegel, and McAllister cost a combined $2,260,000. Jointly dedicated with Kruegel-McAllister Halls on April 28, 1957. Architects: Victor Jones & Lloyd Lovegren. A $4,000,000 renovation subsequently changed this from a residence hall to the Math building.

Housed 142 students; 34,830 sq. feet. Coman and Scott jointly cost a total of $1,515,000. Architect: Paul Thiry.

Originally titled the Nuclear Reactor Building. Cost $210,000 ($180,000 reactor, $30,000 fuel). Ca. 1963: housed the institution's one-million watt research nuclear reactor. The reactor was a "swimming pool" type, powered by 3,580 grams of highly enriched Uranium 235. Building contained laboratories for research, and also a smaller sub-critical teaching reactor. Architect: Phillip Keene.

Named for Edward C. Johnson, who was Dean of the College of Agriculture from 1919-1949, and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Stations from 1919 to 1946. It was built to house Plant Sciences: Agronomy (Crop and Soil Sciences), Entomology, Forestry and Range Management, Horticulture, and Plant Pathology. Construction began in 1958, but first that site's existing Poultry Hill had to be reduced 65 feet in elevation, requiring the removal of 300,000 yards of soil. The building was occupied in January, 1961, and was dedicated on July 12th of that year. A plaque in Johnson notes it as having been dedicated on May 9, 1959; that may(?) have been the groundbreaking ceremony. It grossed 181,727 square feet, was four stories plus a "penthouse," and cost $4,115,390.71. $1.9 million of that came from the state legislature, with the rest from the 1958 voter-approved state Referendum Bill No. 10. Architect: Jones, Lovegren, & Associates. Note: Johnson Hall is commonly confused with Johnson Tower, but these are two different and separate buildings.

Housed 324 students each; including furniture Gannon, Goldsworthy, and the Hall Rotunda had a joint cost of $3,160,000. Gannon, Goldsworthy, and the Hall Rotunda were a joint project by architect firm Lee, Pearson, and Richards of Tacoma. Gannon and Goldsworthy opened in fall of 1961; due to construction delays, the Hall Rotunda was not opened until Thanksgiving break of that year. The Stadium Way overpass between Gannon and Neill was built ca. 1967.

Gannon, Goldsworthy, and the Hall Rotunda were a joint project by architect firm Lee, Pearson, and Richards of Tacoma. The Hall Rotunda was not opened until Thanksgiving break of 1961. Named for Stanton J Hall.

Architect: Decker & Christenson. At opening, this, and Science Hall, next door, housed Departments of Bacteriology and Public Health, Botany, and Zoology, and the Electron Microscope Laboratory. Heald Hall contained 82,223 square feet of space, laboratories for both research and teaching, offices, animal rooms, growth chambers, and other special rooms. Cost $1,750,000. The connecting walkways to Abelson were parr of its original construction. Named in honor of former faculty member and first chairman of Plant Pathology, Dr. Frederick DeForest Heald. Dedicated May 22, 1962.