AKA: United States Naval Training Camp Building #51, Seattle, WA

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

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: constructed 1918

Building History

This building was originally built to be a gun shed, and became a storage shed for the University Golf Club and later the Oceanography Department.

Building Notes

An building inventory put together by Paul Ivester for the University of Washington in 1977 observed about this storage shed: "Oceanography Storage Shed Bldg 078 Built in 1920. Originally used by Golf Club for storage; located southeast of Oceanography Building." (See Paul Ivester, University of Washington, Physical Plant Department, Index of Old Building Record Plans with Historical Summaries, [Seattle: University of Washington, Physical Plant Department, 1977], n.p.)

PCAD id: 9536