Home Economics Building

Location:

Northwest corner of University Blvd. and East Mall -- location of today's Physics/Chemistry.

Date:

1949

Architect:

Sharp & Thompson, Berwick, Pratt

Cost:

$186,090

Sources of funds:

$75,000 bequest of Johnathan Rogers; $20,000 Parent-Teacher Federation donation; insurance settlement for six army huts destroyed by fire in January 1949.

Demolition date:

1989

Architectural features:

Concrete block exterior walls, pumice block interior walls and furring. Precast joists and slabs. Tar and gravel roof.

Notes:

Replaced Army huts destroyed by fire in February 1949.

Sources:

Thompson, Berwick, Pratt.

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