Home Economics

Showing limitless resourcefulness, Davis designed the Home Economics Building in 1926, utilizing salvaged materials left from a razed campus structure. The building of rough ashlar limestone blocks was accentuated with attractive pilasters and a pedimented entryway. Destroyed in 1982, the building is the only Davis structure at Western that has been razed. Stone was salvaged from the structure to build the retaining wall for the parking lot that replaced it.

These contractors have almost completed the new Home Economics building in 1928.

Cooking lab.

The Home Economics building was razed in 1982.

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Cherry Hall l Health Building l Heating Plant l Home Economics Building l Industrial Arts Building l Kentucky Building l Library l Pioneer Cabin l President's Home l Snell Hall l Stadium l Swimming Pool l Van Meter Hall l Whitestone Hall

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