State College of Washington School of Architectural Engineering Records, 1923-1981

Overview of the Collection

Creator
State College of Washington. Department of Architectural Engineering.
Title
State College of Washington School of Architectural Engineering Records
Dates
1923-1981 (inclusive)
Quantity
7.5 linear feet of shelf space, (8 boxes)
Collection Number
Archives 375 (collection)
Summary
This collection contains materials generated by Washington State College’s (later Washington State University) Architectural Engineering Department from the 1920s through the 1950s.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection is open and available for research use.

Languages
English.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

There has been an architecture department at Washington State College [WSC] since the school’s opening in 1892. In 1917, following reorganization at WSC, the Department of Architectural Engineering was incorporated into the College of Mechanic Arts and Engineering. In 1946, further reorganization at WSC led to the creation of the Washington State Institute of Technology. The Institute of Technology contained multiple academic departments including the College of Engineering and the newly created Division of Industrial Research. The Division of Industrial Research existed to conduct studies and research that contributed both to the economical use of the Pacific Northwest’s material resources and to the development of the state of Washington.

A faculty member in the Architectural Engineering Department at WSC from 1923-1955, Stanley A. Smith served as department chair from 1924-1947. During this same period, Smith also served as college architect, completing fourteen major buildings at WSC. Harry Weller, a faculty member at WSC since 1928, replaced Smith as department chair in the 1940s. During their tenures at WSC, Smith, Weller, and numerous other architectural engineering faculty members participated actively in local, regional, and national clubs, committees, and associations.

During the Depression, faculty worked closely with Washington State’s Works Progress Administration Director Eugene R. Hoffman to fund department projects and student tuition. During World War II, the department corresponded with its former students out in the field and petitioned the Selective Service on students’ behalf. They also planned in advance of the war’s end for the predicted post-war school enrollment boom and developed academic opportunities fitted particularly for returning World War II veterans.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection consists largely of correspondence, both departmental and interdepartmental. It also includes letters between Architectural Engineering faculty and prospective, current, and former students. Other student-related materials include the scripts for radio skits performed during the 1930s.

It also includes materials related to the committees, associations, and clubs to which many Architectural Engineering faculty members belonged or chaired, including WSC’s Ten-Year Committee and Space Priorities Committee, and local/regional groups such as the Washington State Hospital Advisory Council and the Spokane Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Additional materials deal with administrative matters, including department budgets, post-war planning, staffing, and scheduling. Other materials address academic matters, including curricular development, enrollment, course readings, and summer school programs. Faculty research reports, papers, and projects as well as work orders completed by the Division of Industrial Research also comprise this collection.

Series 1 is student-centered. Subseries 1.1 consists of letters between Architectural Engineering students and faculty. This includes prospective, current, and former students. Subseries 1.2 consists of the scripts for the radio talks given by Architectural Engineering students.

Series 2 pertains to departmental matters. Subseries 2.1 contains information about the various clubs, committees, and associations in which faculty members were involved as well as the various traveling exhibits they shared with other departments, colleges, and universities. While Subseries 2.1 consists of some correspondence, it also includes event programs, brochures, and meeting minutes. Subseries 2.2 contains correspondence between Architectural Engineering faculty members as well as some interdepartmental correspondence. Subseries 2.3 consists of paperwork related to administrative affairs and academic development.

Series 3 is focused on research. Subseries 3.1 is arranged alphabetically and consists of faculty research papers, reports, projects, and letters. Subseries 3.2 is arranged by work order number and consists of jobs completed by the Division of Industrial Research.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Copyright restrictions apply.

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]

State College of Washington School of Architectural Engineering Records, 1923-1981 (Archives 375)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into three series. Series 1 is arranged into two subseries, each arranged alphabetically. Series 2 is arranged into three subseries, each arranged alphabetically. Series 3 is arranged into two subseries.

Acquisition Information

The materials in this collection were transferred to the Washington State University Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections on December 14, 1988 by the WSU Architecture School and retained as accession UA88-47.

Processing Note

This collection was processed by Laura Briere in August 2017 to April 2018. An alphabetical order was imposed on the pre-existing, approximate alphabetical order in this collection. Only files within Subseries 3.2 are arranged chronologically, by the work order number.

Separated Materials

This collection was separated from other materials in UA 88-47 during processing. These other records contain materials from Washington State College’s Mechanical Engineering department from the 1910s-1940s (Archives 374).

These records also include materials generated by some of Stanley Smith’s campus projects during his tenure as college architect as well as projects Smith undertook through his private practice, Smith & Rounds which later became Smith & Weller (Cage 388).

Related Materials

Washington State University Architecture Department Records, 1957-1975 (Archives 68)

Washington State University Engineering and Architecture College Records, 1961-1997 (Archives 304)

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series 1: Students and AlumniReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 1.1: Correspondence
Box Folder
1 1
Alumni
1935-1940
1 2
Annual Letter to Former Students of Civil Engineering
1950-1955
1 3
"Christmas Letter," Rough Drafts
1956
1 4
Dept. of Architectural Engineering Alumni Dinner Guest Book
1953
1 5
Female Graduates of the Department of Architectural Engineering
1923-1948
1 6
Former Students
1939
1 7
Former Students
1940
1 8-9
Former Students
1941
1 10-11
Former Students
1942
1 12-13
Former Students
1943
1 14-15
Former Students
1944
1 16-17
Former Students
1945
1 18
Former Students
1946
1 19
Former Students
1947
1 20
Former Students
1948
1 21
Former Students
1949
1 22
Former Students
1950
1 23
Former Students
1951
1 24
Former Students
1952
1 25
Former Students
1953
1 26
Former Students
1954
1 27
Former Students
1955
1 28
Former Students
1956
1 29
Student Letters
1951-1954
1 30
Student Letters
1951-1955
1 31
Student Projects
1935-1945
1 32
Students, Prospective
1940-1945
1 33
Students, Prospective
1952-1955
2 1
"Summer Letters" and "Christmas Letters" to Former Students of Arch. Engineering
1936-1956
Subseries 1.2: Radio presentations
Box Folder
2 2-3
Radio Skits
1938
2 4
Radio Talks, Federal Housing
1935
2 5
Radio Talks, "House that Jack Built"
Undated
2 6
Radio Talks, "The Little Gray House in the West"
Undated
2 7
Skits, "A Day in the Architect's Office"
Undated

Series 2: Administrative filesReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 2.1: Organizations and Exhibitions
Box Folder
2 8
American Institute of Architects
1950-1952
2 9
American Institute of Architects
1952-1955
2 10
American Institute of Architects, Spokane Chapter
1934-1940
2 11
American Society for Engineering Education
1947-1948
2 12
American Society for Engineering Education
1951-1952
2 13
American Society for Engineering Education
1952-1955
2 14
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
1940
2 15
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
1947-1949
2 16
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
1951-1956
2 17
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
1953-1955
2 18
Campus Improvement Committee
1945-1949
2 19
Campus Improvement Committee
1950-1952
2 20
Committees and Councils, Miscellaneous
1934-1942
2 21
Community Chest
1937-1939
2 22
Community Chest
1948-1949
2 23
Competitions, General
1949-1952
2 24
Competitions, General
1953-1955
2 25
Department of Health, Washington State
1950-1951
2 26
Educational Policies Committee
1949
2 27
Exhibits
1937-1940
2 28
Exhibits
1948-1956
2 29
Exhibits, Miscellaneous
1940-1946
2 30
Exhibits from Other Schools
1939-1940
2 31
Exhibit, Paris Prize
1936
2 32
Exhibitions
1955
2 33
Exhibit, Traveling Western Schools of Architecture
1953-1954
2 34
Exhibitions, Circulating
1944-1949
3 1
Group Management and Behavior Techniques
1935
3 2
High School Exhibit
1941
3 3
High Schools, Exhibits to
1951
3 4
High School Visitation (Pullman)
1942
3 5
Progressive Education Association
1941
3 6
Regional Conference, Architectural Instructors' Meetings
1950
3 7
Regional Tech Committee
1950
3 8
Russian Exhibit
1946
3 9
Smithsonian Institution Exhibition
1954-1956
3 10-11
Space Priorities Committee
1946
3 12-13
Space Priorities Committee
1947
3 14
Space Priorities Committee
1950
3 15
Special Housing Council
1944-1949
3 16
Spokane Chapter American Institute of Architects, Newsletters
1954-1955
3 17
Ten Year Plan Committee
1950-1951
3 18
Traveling Exhibit
1952
3 19
Traveling Exhibit
1952-1953
3 20
Traveling Exhibit
1953-1954
3 21
Traveling Exhibit
1953-1955
3 22
Washington State Department of Health
1949
Subseries 2.2: Correspondence
Box Folder
3 23
A, Miscellaneous Correspondence
1948-1952
3 24
Addresses
1950
3 25
Applications/Correspondence, Faculty and Secretarial
1935-1940
3 26
A. William Hajjar, Instructor
1941-1946
3 27
Correspondence
1932
3 28
Correspondence
1934
3 29
Correspondence
1935
3 30
Correspondence
1936
3 31
Correspondence
1937
3 32
Correspondence
1938
3 33-34
Correspondence
1939
3 35
Correspondence
1940
4 1
Correspondence
1940
4 2
Correspondence, American Institute of Architects, Spokane
1947-1949
4 3
Correspondence B, Miscellaneous
1947-1952
4 4
Correspondence, Budget
1953-1956
4 5
Correspondence, Bursar's Office
1946-1947
4 6
Correspondence C, Miscellaneous
1946-1952
4 7
Correspondence, Compton, Wilson
1946-1949
4 8
Correspondence D, Miscellaneous
1946-1952
4 9
Correspondence, Elementary Schools
1953
4 10
Correspondence, Miscellaneous
1941-1944
4 11
Correspondence, Request for Information
1946-1948
4 12
Course Catalogue Correspondence
1952
4 13
Departmental Correspondence
1935-1940
4 14
Departmental Correspondence
1936-1940
4 15
Departmental Correspondence
1938-1940
4 16
Departmental Correspondence
1950-1956
4 17
Departmental Correspondence
1952-1955
4 18
Donald R. Heil, Correspondence
1958
4 19
Don Heil, Notes and Project Correspondence
1959
4 20
Moore, Emmett B.
1947-1949
4 21
Faculty, Haaland, Thorkel M.
1948-1955
4 22
Faculty, Romish, John H.
1956
4 23
Faculty, Smith, Stanley A.
1946-1954
4 24
Holland, Pres. E.O.
1944
4 25
Faculty and Student Correspondence
1950-1954
4 26
Fred Rounds, Dept. of Buildings and Grounds
1945
4 27
General Faculty Correspondence
1947-1956
4 28
George Gove
1940
4 29
George Gove
1946-1949
4 30
Hansen, H
1950-1952
4 31
Harry E. Rodman, Correspondence
1941-1943
4 32
H.C. Weller, Miscellaneous
1956
4 33
H.C. Weller, Miscellaneous
1956-1957
4 34
Harry C. Weller Correspondence
1948-1952
4 35
Harry C. Weller Correspondence
1956
4 36
Instructional Correspondence and Paperwork
1936-1944
4 37
Instructional Supplies Correspondence
1947-1948
4 38
Invitations, etc.
1930s-1950s
4 39
Memos, Rounds, Fred
1937-1939
5 1
Miscellaneous, E
1940-1952
5 2
Miscellaneous, F
1946-1952
5 3
Miscellaneous, Faculty
1941-1945
5 4
Miscellaneous, G
1950-1952
5 5
Miscellaneous, H
1946-1952
5 6
Miscellaneous, I
1949-1953
5 7
Miscellaneous, J
1946-1952
5 8
Miscellaneous, K
1943-1952
5 9
Miscellaneous, L
1947-1952
5 10
Miscellaneous, M
1946-1952
5 11
Miscellaneous, N
1947-1952
5 12
Miscellaneous, P
1947-1952
5 13
Miscellaneous, R
1946-1952
5 14
Miscellaneous, T
1950-1952
5 15
Miscellaneous, U
1952
5 16
Placement Letters
1950-1952
5 17
Robert F. Darlington, Instructor
1953-1954
5 18
Requests for Information
1941-1943
5 19
Requests for Information
1944
5 20
Requests for Information
1945
5 21
Requests for Information
1946
5 22
Requests for Information
1948-1950
5 23
Ross, Walter E.
1952
5 24
S.C. Markley
1947-1952
5 25
Scarab Fraternity, Correspondence
1941
5 26-27
Smith, Stanley A., Miscellaneous
1953-1954
5 28
Smith, Stanley A., Personal
1953-1954
5 29
Smith, Stanley A., Personal
1955
5 30
Stanley Smith, Correspondence
1938-1944
5 31-32
Stanley Smith, Correspondence
1941-1944
5 33
Stanley Smith, Correspondence
1942
5 34
Stanley Smith, Correspondence
1945
5 35
Stanley Smith, Correspondence
1946-1952
5 36
Stanley Smith, Correspondence
1947-1952
5 37
Stanley Smith, Correspondence
1950-1952
5 38
Stanley Smith, Correspondence
1952
5 39
Stanley Smith, Misc. (Campus & Town)
1943
5 40
Sterling College Library (Project)
1941-1942
5 41
Xmas Letters
1954
Subseries 2.3: Administrative affairs and Academic development
Box Folder
5 42
Army Service Forces
1944
5 43
Pettibone, Carl A.
1948-1950
5 44
Books
1946-1948
5 45
Books
1949-1950
5 46
Budget
1942-1948
6 1
Budget Material
1948-1951
6 2
Catalog Info.
1942-1949
6 3
Charter, State College of Washington
1951
6 4
Community College Service
1950-1954
6 5
Course Enrollments
1955
6 6
Course Reports
1943
6 7
Courses of Study
1941-1945
6 8
Curriculum, Enrollment, and Maintenance
1936-1940
6 9
Curriculum, Enrollment, and Maintenance
1938-1940
6 10
Curriculum, Enrollment, and Maintenance
1936-1944
6 11
Department, General
1946-1949
6 12
Employment Bundle
1941
6 13
Engineering Post War Planning
1943-1944
6 14
Enrollment
1941-1944
6 15
Enrollment
1952-1956
6 16
Ephrata Night School
1954-1955
6 17
Expenses, Housekeeping, Dept. Projects
1936-1943
6 18
Faculty Course Notes
1937-1957
6 19
Fellowships
1951-1953
6 20
Guest Speakers
1942-1945
6 21
Graduate Degree, Arch. Engineering
1951-1952
6 22
Graduate School
1948-1949
6 23
HIX
1946-1947
6 24
Hopkins, E.H.
1947-1949
6 25
Hopkins, E.H. Vice President
1948-1951
6 26
Infrastructure, Courses
1934
6 27
Instructors' Notes/Problems
Undated
6 28
Instructor's Programs
1946-1952
6 29
Inventory, Departmental
1942-1948
6 30
Junior College
1950-1951
6 31
Library
1947-1948
6 32
Library
1949-1952
6 33
Military
1942
6 34
Minutes, Meetings, Dept. of Arch. Engineering
1948-1949
6 35
National Architectural Accrediting Board
1954
6 36
National Recovery Administration, Labor Provisions for the Construction Industry
1934
6 37
Personnel, Faculty (Prospective)
1950-1952
6 38
Personnel, Inspectors (Buildings) (Resident Engineer Inspector)
1935-1936
6 39
Procedure for Periodic Review of Accredited Engineering Curricula, WSC
1941
6 40
Prospective Faculty
1955
6 41
Questionnaire
Undated
6 42
Questionnaire, Departmental
1950
6 43
Reading List
1941
6 44
Registrar
1948-1952
6 45
Registrar
1954
6 46
Requisitions
1952
7 1
Schedule Materials Part One
1946-1952
7 2
Schedule Materials Part Two
1953-1954
7 3
Schedule Materials Part Three
1955
7 4
Selective Service
1941-1942
7 5
Senior Inspection Trip
1956
7 6
Senior Trip
1956
7 7
Speakers, Special Visiting Professors, Etc.
1953-1954
7 8
Staffing and Curriculum
1944
7 9
Stencils (MASTER), War Department; Army Engineers Program
1943-1944
7 10
Student Union Building
1950-1952
7 11
Summer School
1941-1942
7 12
Summer Session
1948-1951
7 13
Talks and Speeches (Misc. materials)
1954
7 14
Teaching
1954-1955
7 15
Tech Memo
1949-1952
7 16
Veterans Administration
1952
7 17
Western Regional Schools of Architecture
1955
7 18
Wilson Compton Inauguration
1945

Series 3: ResearchReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 3.1: Reports, Projects, Faculty papers, Correspondence
Box Folder
7 19
Architectural Geometry (original Draft), Stanley A. Smith and Thorkel M. Haaland
1955
7 20
Architectural Geometry (a Draft), Stanley A. Smith and Thorkel M. Haaland
1955
7 21
Architectural Geometry (second Draft), Stanley A. Smith and Thorkel M. Haaland
1955-1956
7 22
Biennial Report to the Dean of Engineering on Architectural Activities
1953-1954
7 23
Buildings and Grounds
1946-1947
7 24
Columbia Basin Planning
1941-1945
7 25
Decade of Development on the Willwood Division
1939
7 26
Details of Bridge, Health & Physical Edu. Bldg. for Women, Drawings and Blueprints
1940
7 27
Editorials
1931-1936
7 28
Engineering, Monthly Bulletins of Washington State College
1936-1937
7 29
Ford Foundation Application-Robert Darlington
1955
7 30
Friends of Art Prints
1940
7 31
Housing Authority of the City of Seattle
1948-1949
7 32
Light Construction Management
1947-1949
7 33
Materials Testing Laboratory Book, College Architect's Office
1929-1932
7 34
National Youth Administration
1937-1941
7 35
Rural Architecture
1949
7 36
Research, Departmental
1947-1952
7 37
Studies in the Heating of Small Houses
1939
7 38
U.S.O. Proposed Building
1943
7 39
Washington Construction League
1935-1936
7 40
Washington State Regional School Laboratory
Undated
7 41
Wright, Frank Lloyd, Taliesin Fellowship
Undated
7 42
WSC Campus Paving, Section One, Blueprints, Provisions, and Proposal
1934
7 43
WSC Campus Paving, Section One, Blueprints, Provisions, and Proposal
1935
7 44
WSU Veterinary Science Building Biohazard Suite Remodel, General Construction, Mechanical Construction, and Electrical Construction
1981
7 45
P.W.A. Bulletins
1935-1936
Subseries 3.2: Division of Industrial Research jobs (Work Order numbers, where known, listed parenthetically)
Box Folder
7 46
Lupulin Cleaning (W.O. 104)
1950
7 47
Anti-Freeze Samples, Potlatch Forests, Inc. (W.O. 109)
1950
7 48
Analysis of Grape Leaves for 2-4D (W.O. 178)
1950
7 49
Irrigation Pipe Corrosion (W.O. 191)
1950
7 50
Vermiculite (W.O. 209)
1950
7 51
Vermiculite and Rapid Gro. For Plant Growth (W.O. 209, 237, 248)
1951
7 52
Kaiser Project (W.O. 273)
1950-1951
7 53
Alumina From Clay (Renewal) (W.O. 273)
1947-1950
7 54
Reynolds Metal (W.O. 276)
1951
7 55
Fluorine: Referee Analysis (W.O. 297)
1951
7 56
Columbia Barge Lines, Inc. (W.O. 317)
1951
7 57
Pb & Zn on Liver and Kidney Samples, Bunker Hill Mining Co. (W.O. 320)
1953
7 58
Analysis of Pumice, Aluminum Silicate (W.O. 338)
1949-1951
7 59
Ferrosilicon Analysis Keokuk Electro. (W.O. 356)
1952
7 60
Carbon Analysis for A.R. Hard (W.O. 440)
1953
7 61
Chicken Grit from Central Premix (W.O. 484)
1953
8 1
Exam for Oil in Mud Sample, Army Corps of Engineers (W.O. 490)
1953
8 2
Analysis of Wilcox Process Samples (W.O. 491)
1953
8 3
Tile & Mortar Resistance, Buildings and Grounds (W.O. 494)
1953
8 4
Spectral Transmittance of "Corrulux" (W.O. 502)
1953
8 5
Dolomite Analysis Geology Dept. (W.O. 518)
1953
8 6
Analysis of Residue-City of Garfield (W.O. 538)
1953
8 7
Walla Walla Sewage Waste (W.O. 541)
1953
8 8
Analysis of Six Soil Samples for Selenium (W.O. 550)
1953
8 9
Clay Analysis Wall Logging Co. (W.O. 553)
1953
8 10
Residue Comparisons, Lewiston Police Departments (W.O. 554)
1953
8 11
Analysis of Gilding Metal Speer Manufacturing Co. (W.O. 561)
1953
8 12
Physical & Chemical Analysis of Miracle and Hydrated Lime (W.O. 575)
1953
8 13
De Long Heating and Plumbing (W.O. 578)
1953
8 14
Investigation for Presto-Log Co. (W.O. 584)
1953-1954
8 15
Starch Investigation, Morningstar, Nicol, Inc. (W.O. 588)
1954
8 16
Analysis on Concrete Sample, Weyerhaeuser Lumber Co. (W.O. 600)
1954
8 17
Walnut Shells Analysis (W.O. 605)
1954
8 18
Potlatch Forests Waste Liquor (W.O. 619)
1954
8 19
Ferrosilicon Analysis for Keokik Electrometals (W.O. 621)
1954
8 20
Potassium Content in Rock (W.O. 647)
1954
8 21
Analysis of Marl (W.O. 652)
1954
8 22
Analysis of Limestone Samples (W.O. 653)
1954
8 23
Concrete Analysis for Kriebel Bldg. Supplies (W.O. 654)
1954
8 24
Fitzsimmons' Cleaner Data & Notes (W.O. 658)
1954-1957
8 25
Speer Cartridge (W.O. 660)
1954-1956
8 26
Mineral Determination in Mining Tailings (W.O. 665)
1954
8 27
Unknown Sample from Potlatch Forests, Inc. (W.O. 669)
1954
8 28
Lead in Bovine Autopsy Samples (W.O. 671)
1954
8 29
Carbon Dioxide Submitted by B. Kent (W.O. 672)
1954
8 30
Total Sulfur in Diesel Fuel (W.O. 674)
1954
8 31
Analysis of Animal Foot-Rot Medicine (W.O. 679)
1954
8 32
Klemgard & Dumas (W.O. 681)
1954-1956
8 33
Analysis of Sample from Bellingham Water Dept. (W.O. 683)
1955
8 34
Prep of Strontium Formate (W.O. 685)
1955
8 35
Analysis of Water Sample for Heavy Metal (W.O. 686)
1955
8 36
Potential Alkaline Reactivity on Two Aggregate Samples (W.O. 699)
1956
8 37
Kaiser Project (W.O. 703)
1956-1957
8 38
Analysis of Licton Springs Water (W.O. 706)
1955
8 39
American Solvents (W.O. 798)
1956-1957
8 40
Coeur d'Alene (W.O. 812)
1956
8 41
Flash Vulcanizer
1955-1956

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Architecture
  • Schools of architecture -- Washington (State)

Corporate Names

  • State College of Washington. Department of Architectural Engineering.
  • Washington State University. Department of Architectural Engineering.

Other Creators

  • Corporate Names
    • Washington State University. Department of Architectural Engineering. (creator)