Pine Manor was a men's cooperative dormitory at the State College of Washington (later Washington State University), built in 1938 for $30,000 in National Youth Administration funds. The building housed 87 men, and was named after its knotty pine interiors. The house was closed by WSU in 1963, and the building renovated for the school's anthropology program. Located on the northeast corner of Spokane and Washington streets, it was torn down in 1998 after which the lot became a gravel parking lot.
The collection consists of 2 scrapbooks and a folder containing 550 photographs, plus several hundred clippings, and limited ephemera, relating to the men's dormitory Pine Manor, at the State College of Washington (later Washington State University). The older, 92 page scrapbook is retained in its original wood plank binding and its original order; the cover is approximately 60 x 43 cm., and interior pages are only slightly smaller. The newer, 17 page scrapbook is retained with its original covers and in its original order, though the binding posts and a set of blank pages at the end were removed for ease of storage;; the cover is approximately 58 x 43 cm., and interior pages are only slightly smaller. It is primarily photographs, with a few clippings. A folder beneath the scrapbooks contains three added photographs and a 3-page "The History of Pine Manor" text piece.
This collection is open and available for research use. Due to the earlier scrapbook's bindings and the condition of interior pages, both scanning and digital photography of most images from that may be problematic.
Copyright restrictions may apply.
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State College of Washington Pine Manor Scrapbooks, 1938-1963 (PC 131)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This collection was received as UPC 09-03 at WSU Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections on September 23rd, 2009 from Don and Martha Shaw of Mercer Island, WA. Four additional photographs, a short text piece, and a CD of photographs were received from Robert Baldwin of Longview, WA and Don Moen of Yakima, WA in 2013 and placed in a folder beneath the scrapbook. A second scrapbook, 1961-1963, was received from Robert Baldwin on June 2, 2023 and added to the collection.
This collection was processed by University Archivist Mark O'English in November, 2009.
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