Science Building, Administration Building, And The Auditorium Officially Named Husted Hall And Draper Hall

1927 December 12

Science Building, Administration Building, and the Auditorium officially named Husted Hall (for Albert N. Husted, Normal School graduate & long term faculty member), Draper Hall (for Andrew S. Draper, twice Chair of the Executive Committee/Board of Trustees, and twice involved in changing the academic direction of the school), and Gideon Hawley (creator of the Common Schools, Chancellor of the Regents, and member of the first Executive Committee). Also named were the as yet incomplete Milne Hall (named for former President William J. Milne, 1889-1914), Page Hall (named for first Principal David Page, 1844-1848), and Richards Hall (subsequently Richardson Hall, named after the founder of Home Economics, Ellen Richards).

Source Details

Board Meeting of December 12, Board of Trustees Minutes [typescript], Dec. 12, 1927, p. 1187

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