- City:
- Lubbock, TX
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1934
- Designer:
- Wyatt C Hedrick
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Public Works Administration allotted $650,000 to Texas Tech University to build two dormitories, one for men and one for women. $125,000 was a grant and $445,000 was a loan to be paid back over 30 years at 4% interest. Men’s Dormitory No.1 was built in 1934 based on the design of architect Wyatt C. Hedrick and cost $326,713.
The university renamed the building to J. M. West Hall in 1941. Originally housing up to 300 students, West Hall is now an administrative building housing a visitor’s center, undergraduate admissions offices, registrar’s office, student business services and the scholarship and financial aid offices.
Source notes
Childers, Lorene. "$650,000 of Federal Funds Will be Spent on Two Dormitories: Work is to Start in February". The Toreado, December 7, 1933, p.1.
https://swco-ir.tdl.org/swco-ir/bitstream/handle/10605/11617/The%20Toreador_December%207,%201933.pdf?sequence=1
Texas Tech University Archives
https://swco.ttu.edu/University_Archive/uacollections10.html#Campus%20Buildings-%20W
TTU Interactive Campus Map
https://www.ttu.edu/map/
Site originally submitted by Larry Moore on June 10, 2018.
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Eveline Evans
mauricio Lira
Picture attached is not of the historic West Hall. Building pictured is at 33.578778, -101.890034.
That picture is inaccurate. The picture taken is of West Village which was build in 2014 and located on Texas Tech Parkway. The description mentions West Hall, which was built in 1934 and is located on Broadway and Akron