It’s time once again for #FlashbackFriday with the Whitewater Historical Society. This month, let’s look at some buildings of the UW-Whitewater built during the mid-20th century and still standing today.
Our first image is S. A. White Hall, a residence hall built in 1963. The first dormitory built on campus was Lucy Baker Hall in 1952, now demolished. During the next 10 years, several more dormitories with this exact plan were built on campus, just as they were being built on all the other campuses of the Wisconsin State Colleges (Universities). S. A. White Hall is a good example of this style. Four stories with a lobby, they served students until recent years, when they have been demolished for other buildings. Beginning in the mid-1960s, a newer version of this type of dormitory was built on campuses in Wisconsin, and many of these are still standing. Then came the high-rise dorms. Today, new types of “suite” dormitories are popular. Housing students from local boarding houses to dormitories to student apartment buildings has been an important trend in Whitewater since 1900.
Join us next week for more from the Whitewater Historical Society.
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