Home Economics Building, circa 1940, photo 2

This image shows the southern (front) and southeastern sides of the Home Economics Building, built 1905, after a snowfall. It started as the original Administration Building, replaced in 1924, and was remodeled in 1939 for the Home Economics Department. This image shows trees and a playground with a slide and swings in the foreground. The building was demolished in 1967 to prepare for the building of the third administration building, B. B. Dougherty Administration Building, completed 1968.

Buildings

Home Economics

Snow

Appalachian State University

Campus/Buildings Photographs, 2006.269, Home Economics (old), C21.2.2.1

University Archives, Appalachian State University

Appalachian A-V Center

JPEG

Photographs

English

Image

Appalachian State Teachers College (N.C.). Department of Home Economics

Administration Building (1905). Home Economics Building (1905)

1940-1949. 1950-1959

Series 1 -- Campus and Buildings

0131_2006_269_A.jpg

The Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Digitization Project is supported with federal Library Service and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources through the North Carolina ECHO, 'Exploring Cultural Heritage Online' Digitization Grant Program.