Construction began on the original Ferry Hall in February of 1892, the second month of the school's offering classes. It was used as the men's dormitory for about five years, but burned to the ground on February 23rd, 1897. A replacement dormitory, also named Ferry Hall, was built in the same location and first occupied in February, 1900. It was torn down in 1975, and Eastlick Hall was constructed in that location. Ferry's bell tower was saved from demolition - turned into a gazebo, it was on the lawn southeast of Murrow Hall before being moved to a location northeast of the Lewis Alumni Centre in July of 2008.
Ferry Hall was a men's dormitory for most of its life, but in 1960 became a women's dorm, and eventual became a coed dorm, with men and women on alternating floors.
The collection is a single scrapbook, documenting the 1960-1962 school years, when Ferry was a women's dorm. It contains newspaper clippings, photographs, dance cards, and a written history of 1960-9161 Ferry events.
The scrapbook pages remain in their original order of creation.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright may apply.
[Item Description] Ferry Hall Scrapbook, 1960-1962 (Archives 357)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This scrapbook was received in the Washington State University Libraries sometime between 1962 and 2000, and placed in a set of loose general university scrapbooks in the University Publications collections (WSU 177-7).
This collection was processed as its own collection in August of 2015 by University Archivist Mark O'English.
The general university scrapbooks set with which this was filed for several years is held as WSU 177. Various other dorm-specific scrapbooks are held in numerous University Archives collections.
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