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Structure Type: built works - public buildings - schools - university buildings
Designers: Cawdrey and Vemo, Incorporated, General Contractors (firm); Heath, Gove and Bell, Architects (firm); Lea, Pearson, and Richards, Architects (firm); Herbert A. Bell (architect); James William Cawdrey (building contractor); George Gove (architect); Frederick Henry Heath (architect); Charles Winthrop Lea Jr. (architect); Charles Theodore Pearson (architect); John Greenway Richards (architect); Bjarne Vemo (building contractor)
Dates: constructed 1951
In 1997, Barclay and Sharon Simpson donated $5 million in honor of his father, Walter Chapin Simpson, to the University of Washington Humanities Center. The Simpson Center for the Humanities was established on the second floor of the Communications Building in 2007. For the period 1997-2007, the center occupied a trailer on campus.
PCAD id: 8745
