NTE2ua375.xml Guide to the State College of Washington School of Architectural Engineering Records 1923-1981 State College of Washington School of Architectural Engineering Records Finding aid prepared by Laura Briere. Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2018 Finding aid encoded by Doug Lambeth. 2017 Finding aid written in English. English. Finding aid based on DACS 2nd Edition ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Archives 375 State College of Washington. Department of Architectural Engineering. State College of Washington School of Architectural Engineering Records 1923-1981 7.5 linear feet of shelf space 8 boxes This collection contains materials generated by Washington State College’s (later Washington State University) Architectural Engineering Department from the 1920s through the 1950s. Collection materials are inEnglish.

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.

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.

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.

This collection is open and available for research use.

Copyright restrictions apply.

[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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

State College of Washington. Department of Architectural Engineering. Washington State University. Department of Architectural Engineering. Washington State University. Department of Architectural Engineering. Architecture Schools of architecture -- Washington (State) Architecture Colleges and Universities Washington (State) Series 1: Students and Alumni Subseries 1.1: Correspondence 1 1 1935-1940 Alumni 1 2 1950-1955 Annual Letter to Former Students of Civil Engineering 1 3 1956 "Christmas Letter," Rough Drafts 1 4 1953 Dept. of Architectural Engineering Alumni Dinner Guest Book 1 5 1923-1948 Female Graduates of the Department of Architectural Engineering 1 6 1939 Former Students 1 7 1940 Former Students 1 8-9 1941 Former Students 1 10-11 1942 Former Students 1 12-13 1943 Former Students 1 14-15 1944 Former Students 1 16-17 1945 Former Students 1 18 1946 Former Students 1 19 1947 Former Students 1 20 1948 Former Students 1 21 1949 Former Students 1 22 1950 Former Students 1 23 1951 Former Students 1 24 1952 Former Students 1 25 1953 Former Students 1 26 1954 Former Students 1 27 1955 Former Students 1 28 1956 Former Students 1 29 1951-1954 Student Letters 1 30 1951-1955 Student Letters 1 31 1935-1945 Student Projects 1 32 1940-1945 Students, Prospective 1 33 1952-1955 Students, Prospective 2 1 1936-1956 "Summer Letters" and "Christmas Letters" to Former Students of Arch. Engineering Subseries 1.2: Radio presentations 2 2-3 1938 Radio Skits 2 4 1935 Radio Talks, Federal Housing 2 5 Undated Radio Talks, "House that Jack Built" 2 6 Undated Radio Talks, "The Little Gray House in the West" 2 7 Undated Skits, "A Day in the Architect's Office" Series 2: Administrative files Subseries 2.1: Organizations and Exhibitions 2 8 1950-1952 American Institute of Architects 2 9 1952-1955 American Institute of Architects 2 10 1934-1940 American Institute of Architects, Spokane Chapter 2 11 1947-1948 American Society for Engineering Education 2 12 1951-1952 American Society for Engineering Education 2 13 1952-1955 American Society for Engineering Education 2 14 1940 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 2 15 1947-1949 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 2 16 1951-1956 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 2 17 1953-1955 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 2 18 1945-1949 Campus Improvement Committee 2 19 1950-1952 Campus Improvement Committee 2 20 1934-1942 Committees and Councils, Miscellaneous 2 21 1937-1939 Community Chest 2 22 1948-1949 Community Chest 2 23 1949-1952 Competitions, General 2 24 1953-1955 Competitions, General 2 25 1950-1951 Department of Health, Washington State 2 26 1949 Educational Policies Committee 2 27 1937-1940 Exhibits 2 28 1948-1956 Exhibits 2 29 1940-1946 Exhibits, Miscellaneous 2 30 1939-1940 Exhibits from Other Schools 2 31 1936 Exhibit, Paris Prize 2 32 1955 Exhibitions 2 33 1953-1954 Exhibit, Traveling Western Schools of Architecture 2 34 1944-1949 Exhibitions, Circulating 3 1 1935 Group Management and Behavior Techniques 3 2 1941 High School Exhibit 3 3 1951 High Schools, Exhibits to 3 4 1942 High School Visitation (Pullman) 3 5 1941 Progressive Education Association 3 6 1950 Regional Conference, Architectural Instructors' Meetings 3 7 1950 Regional Tech Committee 3 8 1946 Russian Exhibit 3 9 1954-1956 Smithsonian Institution Exhibition 3 10-11 1946 Space Priorities Committee 3 12-13 1947 Space Priorities Committee 3 14 1950 Space Priorities Committee 3 15 1944-1949 Special Housing Council 3 16 1954-1955 Spokane Chapter American Institute of Architects, Newsletters 3 17 1950-1951 Ten Year Plan Committee 3 18 1952 Traveling Exhibit 3 19 1952-1953 Traveling Exhibit 3 20 1953-1954 Traveling Exhibit 3 21 1953-1955 Traveling Exhibit 3 22 1949 Washington State Department of Health Subseries 2.2: Correspondence 3 23 1948-1952 A, Miscellaneous Correspondence 3 24 1950 Addresses 3 25 1935-1940 Applications/Correspondence, Faculty and Secretarial 3 26 1941-1946 A. William Hajjar, Instructor 3 27 1932 Correspondence 3 28 1934 Correspondence 3 29 1935 Correspondence 3 30 1936 Correspondence 3 31 1937 Correspondence 3 32 1938 Correspondence 3 33-34 1939 Correspondence 3 35 1940 Correspondence 4 1 1940 Correspondence 4 2 1947-1949 Correspondence, American Institute of Architects, Spokane 4 3 1947-1952 Correspondence B, Miscellaneous 4 4 1953-1956 Correspondence, Budget 4 5 1946-1947 Correspondence, Bursar's Office 4 6 1946-1952 Correspondence C, Miscellaneous 4 7 1946-1949 Correspondence, Compton, Wilson 4 8 1946-1952 Correspondence D, Miscellaneous 4 9 1953 Correspondence, Elementary Schools 4 10 1941-1944 Correspondence, Miscellaneous 4 11 1946-1948 Correspondence, Request for Information 4 12 1952 Course Catalogue Correspondence 4 13 1935-1940 Departmental Correspondence 4 14 1936-1940 Departmental Correspondence 4 15 1938-1940 Departmental Correspondence 4 16 1950-1956 Departmental Correspondence 4 17 1952-1955 Departmental Correspondence 4 18 1958 Donald R. Heil, Correspondence 4 19 1959 Don Heil, Notes and Project Correspondence 4 20 1947-1949 Moore, Emmett B. 4 21 1948-1955 Faculty, Haaland, Thorkel M. 4 22 1956 Faculty, Romish, John H. 4 23 1946-1954 Faculty, Smith, Stanley A. 4 24 1944 Holland, Pres. E.O. 4 25 1950-1954 Faculty and Student Correspondence 4 26 1945 Fred Rounds, Dept. of Buildings and Grounds 4 27 1947-1956 General Faculty Correspondence 4 28 1940 George Gove 4 29 1946-1949 George Gove 4 30 1950-1952 Hansen, H 4 31 1941-1943 Harry E. Rodman, Correspondence 4 32 1956 H.C. Weller, Miscellaneous 4 33 1956-1957 H.C. Weller, Miscellaneous 4 34 1948-1952 Harry C. Weller Correspondence 4 35 1956 Harry C. Weller Correspondence 4 36 1936-1944 Instructional Correspondence and Paperwork 4 37 1947-1948 Instructional Supplies Correspondence 4 38 1930s-1950s Invitations, etc. 4 39 1937-1939 Memos, Rounds, Fred 5 1 1940-1952 Miscellaneous, E 5 2 1946-1952 Miscellaneous, F 5 3 1941-1945 Miscellaneous, Faculty 5 4 1950-1952 Miscellaneous, G 5 5 1946-1952 Miscellaneous, H 5 6 1949-1953 Miscellaneous, I 5 7 1946-1952 Miscellaneous, J 5 8 1943-1952 Miscellaneous, K 5 9 1947-1952 Miscellaneous, L 5 10 1946-1952 Miscellaneous, M 5 11 1947-1952 Miscellaneous, N 5 12 1947-1952 Miscellaneous, P 5 13 1946-1952 Miscellaneous, R 5 14 1950-1952 Miscellaneous, T 5 15 1952 Miscellaneous, U 5 16 1950-1952 Placement Letters 5 17 1953-1954 Robert F. Darlington, Instructor 5 18 1941-1943 Requests for Information 5 19 1944 Requests for Information 5 20 1945 Requests for Information 5 21 1946 Requests for Information 5 22 1948-1950 Requests for Information 5 23 1952 Ross, Walter E. 5 24 1947-1952 S.C. Markley 5 25 1941 Scarab Fraternity, Correspondence 5 26-27 1953-1954 Smith, Stanley A., Miscellaneous 5 28 1953-1954 Smith, Stanley A., Personal 5 29 1955 Smith, Stanley A., Personal 5 30 1938-1944 Stanley Smith, Correspondence 5 31-32 1941-1944 Stanley Smith, Correspondence 5 33 1942 Stanley Smith, Correspondence 5 34 1945 Stanley Smith, Correspondence 5 35 1946-1952 Stanley Smith, Correspondence 5 36 1947-1952 Stanley Smith, Correspondence 5 37 1950-1952 Stanley Smith, Correspondence 5 38 1952 Stanley Smith, Correspondence 5 39 1943 Stanley Smith, Misc. (Campus & Town) 5 40 1941-1942 Sterling College Library (Project) 5 41 1954 Xmas Letters Subseries 2.3: Administrative affairs and Academic development 5 42 1944 Army Service Forces 5 43 1948-1950 Pettibone, Carl A. 5 44 1946-1948 Books 5 45 1949-1950 Books 5 46 1942-1948 Budget 6 1 1948-1951 Budget Material 6 2 1942-1949 Catalog Info. 6 3 1951 Charter, State College of Washington 6 4 1950-1954 Community College Service 6 5 1955 Course Enrollments 6 6 1943 Course Reports 6 7 1941-1945 Courses of Study 6 8 1936-1940 Curriculum, Enrollment, and Maintenance 6 9 1938-1940 Curriculum, Enrollment, and Maintenance 6 10 1936-1944 Curriculum, Enrollment, and Maintenance 6 11 1946-1949 Department, General 6 12 1941 Employment Bundle 6 13 1943-1944 Engineering Post War Planning 6 14 1941-1944 Enrollment 6 15 1952-1956 Enrollment 6 16 1954-1955 Ephrata Night School 6 17 1936-1943 Expenses, Housekeeping, Dept. Projects 6 18 1937-1957 Faculty Course Notes 6 19 1951-1953 Fellowships 6 20 1942-1945 Guest Speakers 6 21 1951-1952 Graduate Degree, Arch. Engineering 6 22 1948-1949 Graduate School 6 23 1946-1947 HIX 6 24 1947-1949 Hopkins, E.H. 6 25 1948-1951 Hopkins, E.H. Vice President 6 26 1934 Infrastructure, Courses 6 27 Undated Instructors' Notes/Problems 6 28 1946-1952 Instructor's Programs 6 29 1942-1948 Inventory, Departmental 6 30 1950-1951 Junior College 6 31 1947-1948 Library 6 32 1949-1952 Library 6 33 1942 Military 6 34 1948-1949 Minutes, Meetings, Dept. of Arch. Engineering 6 35 1954 National Architectural Accrediting Board 6 36 1934 National Recovery Administration, Labor Provisions for the Construction Industry 6 37 1950-1952 Personnel, Faculty (Prospective) 6 38 1935-1936 Personnel, Inspectors (Buildings) (Resident Engineer Inspector) 6 39 1941 Procedure for Periodic Review of Accredited Engineering Curricula, WSC 6 40 1955 Prospective Faculty 6 41 Undated Questionnaire 6 42 1950 Questionnaire, Departmental 6 43 1941 Reading List 6 44 1948-1952 Registrar 6 45 1954 Registrar 6 46 1952 Requisitions 7 1 1946-1952 Schedule Materials Part One 7 2 1953-1954 Schedule Materials Part Two 7 3 1955 Schedule Materials Part Three 7 4 1941-1942 Selective Service 7 5 1956 Senior Inspection Trip 7 6 1956 Senior Trip 7 7 1953-1954 Speakers, Special Visiting Professors, Etc. 7 8 1944 Staffing and Curriculum 7 9 1943-1944 Stencils (MASTER), War Department; Army Engineers Program 7 10 1950-1952 Student Union Building 7 11 1941-1942 Summer School 7 12 1948-1951 Summer Session 7 13 1954 Talks and Speeches (Misc. materials) 7 14 1954-1955 Teaching 7 15 1949-1952 Tech Memo 7 16 1952 Veterans Administration 7 17 1955 Western Regional Schools of Architecture 7 18 1945 Wilson Compton Inauguration Series 3: Research Subseries 3.1: Reports, Projects, Faculty papers, Correspondence 7 19 1955 Architectural Geometry (original Draft), Stanley A. Smith and Thorkel M. Haaland 7 20 1955 Architectural Geometry (a Draft), Stanley A. Smith and Thorkel M. Haaland 7 21 1955-1956 Architectural Geometry (second Draft), Stanley A. Smith and Thorkel M. Haaland 7 22 1953-1954 Biennial Report to the Dean of Engineering on Architectural Activities 7 23 1946-1947 Buildings and Grounds 7 24 1941-1945 Columbia Basin Planning 7 25 1939 Decade of Development on the Willwood Division 7 26 1940 Details of Bridge, Health & Physical Edu. Bldg. for Women, Drawings and Blueprints 7 27 1931-1936 Editorials 7 28 1936-1937 Engineering, Monthly Bulletins of Washington State College 7 29 1955 Ford Foundation Application-Robert Darlington 7 30 1940 Friends of Art Prints 7 31 1948-1949 Housing Authority of the City of Seattle 7 32 1947-1949 Light Construction Management 7 33 1929-1932 Materials Testing Laboratory Book, College Architect's Office 7 34 1937-1941 National Youth Administration 7 35 1949 Rural Architecture 7 36 1947-1952 Research, Departmental 7 37 1939 Studies in the Heating of Small Houses 7 38 1943 U.S.O. Proposed Building 7 39 1935-1936 Washington Construction League 7 40 Undated Washington State Regional School Laboratory 7 41 Undated Wright, Frank Lloyd, Taliesin Fellowship 7 42 1934 WSC Campus Paving, Section One, Blueprints, Provisions, and Proposal 7 43 1935 WSC Campus Paving, Section One, Blueprints, Provisions, and Proposal 7 44 1981 WSU Veterinary Science Building Biohazard Suite Remodel, General Construction, Mechanical Construction, and Electrical Construction 7 45 1935-1936 P.W.A. Bulletins Subseries 3.2: Division of Industrial Research jobs (Work Order numbers, where known, listed parenthetically) 7 46 1950 Lupulin Cleaning (W.O. 104) 7 47 1950 Anti-Freeze Samples, Potlatch Forests, Inc. (W.O. 109) 7 48 1950 Analysis of Grape Leaves for 2-4D (W.O. 178) 7 49 1950 Irrigation Pipe Corrosion (W.O. 191) 7 50 1950 Vermiculite (W.O. 209) 7 51 1951 Vermiculite and Rapid Gro. For Plant Growth (W.O. 209, 237, 248) 7 52 1950-1951 Kaiser Project (W.O. 273) 7 53 1947-1950 Alumina From Clay (Renewal) (W.O. 273) 7 54 1951 Reynolds Metal (W.O. 276) 7 55 1951 Fluorine: Referee Analysis (W.O. 297) 7 56 1951 Columbia Barge Lines, Inc. (W.O. 317) 7 57 1953 Pb & Zn on Liver and Kidney Samples, Bunker Hill Mining Co. (W.O. 320) 7 58 1949-1951 Analysis of Pumice, Aluminum Silicate (W.O. 338) 7 59 1952 Ferrosilicon Analysis Keokuk Electro. (W.O. 356) 7 60 1953 Carbon Analysis for A.R. Hard (W.O. 440) 7 61 1953 Chicken Grit from Central Premix (W.O. 484) 8 1 1953 Exam for Oil in Mud Sample, Army Corps of Engineers (W.O. 490) 8 2 1953 Analysis of Wilcox Process Samples (W.O. 491) 8 3 1953 Tile & Mortar Resistance, Buildings and Grounds (W.O. 494) 8 4 1953 Spectral Transmittance of "Corrulux" (W.O. 502) 8 5 1953 Dolomite Analysis Geology Dept. (W.O. 518) 8 6 1953 Analysis of Residue-City of Garfield (W.O. 538) 8 7 1953 Walla Walla Sewage Waste (W.O. 541) 8 8 1953 Analysis of Six Soil Samples for Selenium (W.O. 550) 8 9 1953 Clay Analysis Wall Logging Co. (W.O. 553) 8 10 1953 Residue Comparisons, Lewiston Police Departments (W.O. 554) 8 11 1953 Analysis of Gilding Metal Speer Manufacturing Co. (W.O. 561) 8 12 1953 Physical & Chemical Analysis of Miracle and Hydrated Lime (W.O. 575) 8 13 1953 De Long Heating and Plumbing (W.O. 578) 8 14 1953-1954 Investigation for Presto-Log Co. (W.O. 584) 8 15 1954 Starch Investigation, Morningstar, Nicol, Inc. (W.O. 588) 8 16 1954 Analysis on Concrete Sample, Weyerhaeuser Lumber Co. (W.O. 600) 8 17 1954 Walnut Shells Analysis (W.O. 605) 8 18 1954 Potlatch Forests Waste Liquor (W.O. 619) 8 19 1954 Ferrosilicon Analysis for Keokik Electrometals (W.O. 621) 8 20 1954 Potassium Content in Rock (W.O. 647) 8 21 1954 Analysis of Marl (W.O. 652) 8 22 1954 Analysis of Limestone Samples (W.O. 653) 8 23 1954 Concrete Analysis for Kriebel Bldg. Supplies (W.O. 654) 8 24 1954-1957 Fitzsimmons' Cleaner Data & Notes (W.O. 658) 8 25 1954-1956 Speer Cartridge (W.O. 660) 8 26 1954 Mineral Determination in Mining Tailings (W.O. 665) 8 27 1954 Unknown Sample from Potlatch Forests, Inc. (W.O. 669) 8 28 1954 Lead in Bovine Autopsy Samples (W.O. 671) 8 29 1954 Carbon Dioxide Submitted by B. Kent (W.O. 672) 8 30 1954 Total Sulfur in Diesel Fuel (W.O. 674) 8 31 1954 Analysis of Animal Foot-Rot Medicine (W.O. 679) 8 32 1954-1956 Klemgard & Dumas (W.O. 681) 8 33 1955 Analysis of Sample from Bellingham Water Dept. (W.O. 683) 8 34 1955 Prep of Strontium Formate (W.O. 685) 8 35 1955 Analysis of Water Sample for Heavy Metal (W.O. 686) 8 36 1956 Potential Alkaline Reactivity on Two Aggregate Samples (W.O. 699) 8 37 1956-1957 Kaiser Project (W.O. 703) 8 38 1955 Analysis of Licton Springs Water (W.O. 706) 8 39 1956-1957 American Solvents (W.O. 798) 8 40 1956 Coeur d'Alene (W.O. 812) 8 41 1955-1956 Flash Vulcanizer