State College of Washington School of Architectural Engineering Records

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)
19231981
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

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)

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