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Central Washington University Facilities Management Department, Historic Building Plans and Construction, 1907-1986 (bulk 1926-1968)

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Central Washington University. Facilities Management Department
Title
Central Washington University Facilities Management Department, Historic Building Plans and Construction
Dates
1907-1986 (bulk 1926-1968) (inclusive)
Quantity
2.75 cubic feet, (4 letter sized document cases, 1 letter half sized document cases and 1 oversized box)  :  Correspondence, construction plans, building specifications, contracts, agreements, studies and reports in fair condition with noticeable aging to some documents caused by improper storage and usage
Collection Number
RG006-08-04
Summary
This collection consists of correspondence, construction plans, building specifications, contracts, agreements, studies, reports and historical information on buildings and grounds upon the Ellensburg campus of Central Washington University from 1907 to 1986.
Repository
Central Washington University, Archives and Special Collections
Archives and Special Collections
Central Washington University
400 E University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926
Telephone: 509-963-1023
Fax: 509-963-3684
archive@cwu.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to the public for educational research.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Central Washington University's Facilities Management Department was initially established under the supervision of the Washington State Normal School Board of Trustees when the school opened in 1891. In 1910, a Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds was appointed and given the responsibility for facilities management of the campus. During the 1920s, a Business Manager replaced the Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds consolidating departments. The Facilities Management Department was reorganized in 1986 and included the planning division.

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Content Description

The majority of the files in this collection were created 1926 to 1968. The collection contains records on building proposals, evaluations, estimates, drawings and repairs at Central's Ellensburg campus. Included in the records are demolition plans, dedications, meeting minutes of the Memorial Committee (1939-1941) and the Student War Memorial Building Committee (1944-1947).

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Historical Background

Central Washington University began as the Washington State Normal School in 1891. In 1937, the school was rechristened the Central Washington College of Education. In 1961, the school became Central Washington State College and, finally, in 1977, Central Washington University.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[Name of document or photograph number]. RG006-08-04, Facilities Management Department, Historic Building Plans and Construction. Archives and Special Collections, Brooks Library, Central Washington University.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Organized in alphabetical order by subject heading of file folder. Chronological arrangement.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Antenna System – North and Wilson Halls
    Dates: 1957
    Container: Box/Folder 1-1
  • Description: Barge Hall – Modernizing Lighting System
    Dates: 1953
    Container: Box/Folder 1-2
  • Description: Barge Hall – Remodel
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box/Folder 1-3
  • Description: Barge Hall – Renovation
    Dates: 1977
    Container: Box/Folder 1-4
  • Description: Bassetti Dormitories – Architecture
    Dates: 1963-1968
    Container: Box/Folder 1-5
  • Description: Beck Hall – Dedication
    Dates: 1959
    Container: Box/Folder 1-6
  • Description: Black Hall – Historical Information
    Dates: 1959-1961
    Container: Box/Folder 1-7
  • Description: Building Construction – Newspaper clippings
    Dates: 1956
    Container: Box/Folder 1-8
  • Description: Building Construction – Newspaper clippings
    Dates: 1957
    Container: Box/Folder 1-9
  • Description: Building Construction – Newspaper clippings
    Dates: 1958
    Container: Box/Folder 1-10
  • Description: Building Construction – Newspaper clippings
    Dates: 1959
    Container: Box/Folder 1-11
  • Description: Building Construction – Newspaper clippings
    Dates: 1962
    Container: Box/Folder 1-12
  • Description: Building and Grounds Staff – Correspondence
    Dates: 1947-1949
    Container: Box/Folder 1-13
  • Description: Building and Grounds Staff – Union activities and retirements
    Dates: 1957-1961
    Container: Box/Folder 1-14
  • Description: Building Grants
    Dates: 1933
    Container: Box/Folder 1-15
  • Description: Building Names
    Container: Box/Folder 1-16
  • Description: Building Plans
    Dates: 1973
    Container: Box/Folder 1-17
  • Description: Campus Buildings – Historic Profiles
    Container: Box/Folder 1-18
  • Description: Campus Landscape Master Plan
    Dates: 1970
    Container: Box/Folder 1-19
  • Description: Campus Landscape Plans
    Dates: 1948
    Container: Box/Folder 1-20
  • Description: Campus Maps
    Dates: circa 1920-1976
    Container: Box/Folder 1-21
  • Description: Central Stores Building (Copy Cat Shop)
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box/Folder 1-22
  • Description: Classroom Addition – Shaw-Smyer Hall
    Dates: 1958
    Container: Box/Folder 1-23
  • Description: Classroom Building – Shaw-Smyser Hall
    Dates: 1920-1930
    Container: Box/Folder 1-24
  • Description: College Union Building (Samuelson Union Building) – Loan Application for Remodel
    Dates: 1959-1960
    Container: Box/Folder 1-25
  • Description: Commons Building – Correspondence
    Dates: 1950-1952
    Container: Box/Folder 1-26
  • Description: Construction Programs – Heating Plant and Science Building
    Dates: 1942-1946
    Container: Box/Folder 1-27
  • Description: Dean Hall – Drawings
    Dates: 1964-1965
    Container: Box/Folder 1-28
  • Description: Edison Hall – Contracts
    Dates: 1907
    Container: Box/Folder 2-1
  • Description: Edison Hall – Demolition
    Dates: March, 1985-August, 1985
    Container: Box/Folder 2-2
  • Description: Edison Hall – Demolition
    Dates: September, 1985-February, 1986
    Container: Box/Folder 2-3
  • Description: Edison Hall – Evaluations
    Dates: 1964-1974
    Container: Box/Folder 2-4
  • Description: Edison Hall – Reports and Recommendations
    Dates: 1964-1986
    Container: Box/Folder 2-5
  • Description: Electric Distribution System
    Dates: 1936-1937
    Container: Box/Folder 2-6
  • Description: Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works – Correspondence from R. H. Corey
    Dates: 1936
    Container: Box/Folder 2-7
  • Description: Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works – Correspondence from E. R. Hoffman
    Dates: 1935-1937
    Container: Box/Folder 2-8
  • Description: Fine and Applied Arts Building (Moore and Anderson Halls) – Proposals
    Dates: 1968
    Container: Box/Folder 2-9
  • Description: General Development Plan
    Dates: 1969
    Container: Box/Folder 2-10
  • Description: Gymnasium Addition (Samuelson Union Building)
    Dates: 1935-1936
    Container: Box/Folder 2-11
  • Description: Gymnasium Addition (Samuelson Union Building)
    Dates: 1937
    Container: Box/Folder 2-12
  • Description: Heating Plant – Coal to Gas Conversion
    Dates: 1957-1958
    Container: Box/Folder 2-13
  • Description: Heating Plant – Drawings
    Dates: 1943
    Container: Box/Folder 3-1
  • Description: Heating Plant – Specifications for Gas Conversion
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box/Folder 3-2
  • Description: Hebeler Building – Remodel
    Dates: 1984
    Container: Box/Folder 3-3
  • Description: Hertz Hall – Dedication
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box/Folder 3-4
  • Description: Hogue Hall – Drawings and Estimates
    Dates: 1966-1972
    Container: Box/Folder 3-5
  • Description: Lind Hall – Correspondence and Contracts
    Dates: 1947-1948
    Container: Box/Folder 3-6
  • Description: Lind Hall – Correspondence and Costs
    Dates: 1940-1941
    Container: Box/Folder 3-7
  • Description: Lind Hall – Dedication
    Dates: 1948
    Container: Box/Folder 3-8
  • Description: Lind Hall – Electrical Work Specifications
    Dates: 1947
    Container: Box/Folder 3-9
  • Description: Master Plan
    Dates: 1986
    Container: Box/Folder 3-10
  • Description: McConnell Auditorium – Contracts
    Dates: 1935-1937
    Container: Box/Folder 3-11
  • Description: McConnell Auditorium – Dedication
    Dates: 1937
    Container: Box/Folder 3-12
  • Description: McConnell Auditorium – Specifications
    Dates: 1935
    Container: Box/Folder 3-13
  • Description: McConnell Auditorium – Specifications
    Dates: 1935
    Container: Box/Folder 3-14
  • Description: McConnell Auditorium – Specifications for Plumbing, Heating and Ventilation
    Dates: 1935
    Container: Box/Folder 3-15
  • Description: McConnell Auditorium – Stagecraft Shop – Correspondence
    Dates: 1936-1937
    Container: Box/Folder 3-16
  • Description: Memorial Committee – Meeting Minutes
    Dates: 1939-1941
    Container: Box/Folder 3-17
  • Description: Robert E. McConnell – Correspondence related to Physical Plant
    Dates: 1956-1959
    Container: Box/Folder 4-1
  • Description: Meisner Hall – Dedication
    Dates: 1966
    Container: Box/Folder 4-2
  • Description: Perry H. Mitchell – Correspondence related to Physical Plant
    Dates: 1960-1961
    Container: Box/Folder 4-3
  • Description: Music Building (Hertz Hall) – Proposal
    Container: Box/Folder 4-4
  • Description: Nicholson Pavilion – Addition
    Dates: 1982
    Container: Box/Folder 4-5
  • Description: Nicholson Pavilion – Bleachers
    Dates: 1959
    Container: Box/Folder 4-6
  • Description: Nicholson Pavilion – Dedication
    Dates: 1959-1960
    Container: Box/Folder 4-7
  • Description: Nicholson Pavilion – Historical Information and Ephemera
    Container: Box/Folder 4-8
  • Description: Nicholson Pavilion – Newspaper Clippings
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box/Folder 4-9
  • Description: Nicholson Pavilion – Physical Education Lab Addition
    Dates: 1975
    Container: Box/Folder 4-10
  • Description: Platting and Subdivision Regulations
    Dates: 1937-1941
    Container: Box/Folder 4-11
  • Description: Power House – Contracts
    Dates: 1917
    Container: Box/Folder 4-12
  • Description: President’s Residence – Correspondence
    Dates: 1946-1947
    Container: Box/Folder 4-13
  • Description: President’s Residence – Correspondence
    Dates: 1948-1950
    Container: Box/Folder 4-14
  • Description: President’s Residence – Repair and Addition
    Dates: 1967-1968
    Container: Box/Folder 5-1
  • Description: Roof Repairs – Campus Buildings
    Dates: 1945
    Container: Box/Folder 5-2
  • Description: Samuelson Union Building – Historical Information
    Container: Box/Folder 5-3
  • Description: Shaw-Smyser – Conversion of Library to Classrooms
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box/Folder 5-4
  • Description: Student Activities Building (Samuelson Union Building) – Specifications
    Dates: 1926
    Container: Box/Folder 5-5
  • Description: Student Activities Building (Samuelson Union Building) – Correspondence and Contract
    Dates: 1928
    Container: Box/Folder 5-6
  • Description: Student Union Building (Samuelson Union Building) – Correspondence
    Dates: 1947
    Container: Box/Folder 5-7
  • Description: Student Union Building (Samuelson Union Building) – Correspondence
    Dates: 1950-1955
    Container: Box/Folder 5-8
  • Description: Student War Memorial Building – Proposal and Meeting Minutes
    Dates: 1944-1947
    Container: Box/Folder 5-9
  • Description: Wilson Hall – Historical Information and Dedication
    Dates: 1955
    Container: Box/Folder 5-10
  • Description: Abstract of bids – Building not named
    Container: Box/Folder 6 (oversized)-1
  • Description: Fred Bassetti and Company – Bouillon Library
    Dates: 1961
    Container: Box/Folder 6 (oversized)-2
  • Description: Master Planning Report
    Dates: 1960
    Container: Box/Folder 6 (oversized)-3
  • Description: Campus Map
    Dates: 1970
    Container: Box/Folder 6 (oversized)-4
  • Description: Campus Site Plan
    Dates: 1974
    Container: Box/Folder 6 (oversized)-5
  • Description: Landscape Planting List
    Dates: 1976
    Container: Box/Folder 6 (oversized)-6
  • Description: Aerial Photograph
    Dates: circa 1965
    Container: Box/Folder 6 (oversized)-7
  • Description: Buildings since 1961
    Dates: 1972
    Container: Box/Folder 6 (oversized)-8
  • Description: Language and Literature Building – Plans and Drawings
    Dates: 1967
    Container: Box/Folder 6 (oversized)-9
  • Description: Psychology Building – Plans and Drawings
    Dates: 1968
    Container: Box/Folder 6 (oversized)-10
  • Description: Technology Building (Hogue Hall) - Plans and Drawings
    Dates: 1970
    Container: Box/Folder 6 (oversized)-11
  • Description: Campus Map
    Dates: 1968
    Container: Box/Folder 6 (oversized)-12
  • Description: Campus Site Plan
    Dates: 1975
    Container: Box/Folder 6 (oversized)-13
  • Description: Campus Map
    Dates: 1955
    Container: Box/Folder 6 (oversized)-14
  • Description: Campus Map
    Dates: 1964
    Container: Box/Folder 6 (oversized)-15

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Subject Terms

  • College buildings
  • Universities & colleges--United States

Geographical Names

  • Ellensburg (Wash.)

Other Creators

  • Corporate Names

    • Central Washington University. Facilities Management Department (creator)
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