PCAD - State College of Washington (WSC), Mechanic Arts Building, Pullman, WA

AKA: State College of Washington, Carpenter, Hubert Vinton, Hall, Pullman, WA; Washington State University, Carpenter, Hubert Vinton, Hall, Pullman, WA

Structure Type: built works - public buildings - schools - university buildings

Exterior view of the Mechanic Arts Building, Washington State University, Pullman, c. 1927; from "WSU Buildings," web site, Washington State University

Portrait of Hubert V. Carpenter, Pullman, 1935; from WSU Timeline: Faculty and Staff web site, Washington State University, 2018

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NE Spokane Street
Washington State University Campus, Pullman, WA 99164-2220

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Overview

The State College of Washington's original Campus Architect and founder of the schools Architecture Department, Rudolph Weaver, designed what was originally known as the Mechanic Arts Building. To save money, Weaver designed the Mechanic Arts Building and Wilson Hall (1914-1917) to have the same plan and elevations. Cost cutting was crucial in the State of Washington at the time, as penny-pinching Governor Roland H. Hartley (1864-1952) decried lavish expenditures made for university buildings in Seattle at the University of Washington.

Building History

Administrators renamed this four-floor academic building for Hubert Vinton Carpenter (1875-1941), first dean of the College of Mechanic Arts and Engineering, (serving from 1917 until 1941), on 10/22/1949.

In 2018, Washington State University's School of Design + Construction occupied Carpenter Hall.

PCAD id: 22464

State College of Washington (WSC), Mechanic Arts Building, Pullman, WA (1927)