Bell Annex

To provide living quarters for some of the boys in 1906, the College had rented from Trustee R. B. F. Key three five-room cottages, constructed in 1902 across the street from the west campus. In 1912, the College planned to discontinue the use of the Cottages; the boys were to stay in homes near the campus with a Matron in charge of each. To be used as one of the boys' homes was a large house on Wilson Street, west of Dr. J. H. Bell's residence on the northwest corner of Twelfth and Wilson Streets, to be known as the Bell Annex. The house had been “practically rebuilt and furnished with modern conveniences''.