- City:
- Nacogdoches, TX
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Designers:
- Hal Tucker, Shirley Simon
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Serious discussion about building a new women’s dormitory at Stephen F. Austin began immediately after the programs of the New Deal made the project feasible. The Board of Regents authorized the dorm’s construction in July 1936. It took another two years before the appropriations for the women’s dormitory came through. The building was constructed with Public Works Administration funds. Construction started on September 6, 1938 under the supervision of architects Shirley Simon of Henderson and Hal Tucker of Nacogdoches.
The building is named for Miss Eleanor H. Gibbs, one of SFA’s favorite members of the original faculty and Head of the Art Department. A designated subcommittee of the Board of Regents formally received the new fire-proof building on May 29, 1939.
Source notes
Stephen F. Austin State University History site East Texas Research Center Digital Archives & CollectionsSite originally submitted by Larry D. Moore on April 14, 2015.
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Barbara
I hear that this hall is scheduled for demolition? You may want to photograph it?
We welcome any photos you, or anyone out there, sends our way.
Sad that the college feels it must tear down to build. Try keeping the buildings you have in repair, spend some money on them before they are considered useless. I was 4 yrs old when Gibbs was opened.. I lived there in 1952 and finished college in 1955. Makes me want to be a 82 yr old flower child and March on the demolition crew.
Unfortunately, it and Hall 17 were demolished this past summer of 2016. SFA plans to make that part of campus its “STEM Alley.”