Stuttgart Hall

To meet the emergency need for classroom and other space during the enrollment boom following WWII, the College obtained three temporary barracks-type white frame buildings as government surplus property from the defunct Stuttgart, Arkansas, Air Field. The buildings included “all necessary heat, lights, ventilation, corridors, and washrooms.” Other equipment included "all types of business machines and office equipment, a hydraulic press, electric motors, microscopes, spectroscopes, and sufficient other materials to fill two closely typed pages” .

On April, 1947, the Bureau of Community Facilities of the Federal Works Agency began to construct and equip the three structures on the west campus “free of charge to the College, with the exception of utilities”. Located near Twelfth Street, these three buildings were named Stuttgart Hall, Western Hall, and the Maintenance Shop. Stuttgart Hall was “an attractive well-lighted classroom building” located north of McElhannon Hall and used exclusively by the Department of History.

According to a 2005 interview with alumnus and baseball coach Clyde Berry, in 1952 [Berry] spoke with Coach Duke Wells about having a field used only for baseball games. At that time, the track team, the football team and the baseball team all shared the athletic field. Coach Wells told Clyde if he could procure enough space then he would make it happen. Clyde found some land, which at the time was muddy and swampy, and spent the entire summer clearing it off with machinery and manpower. Upon clearance, Clyde made blueprints of a baseball field and presented it to the Board of Trustees, but when the Board discovered the amount of land that was available to Henderson, they decided to build a MaintenanceShop there instead of a baseball field. Stuttgart Hall was moved to this location west of the Day Armory and converted into quarters for the Maintenance Department; Evans Hall occupied its former site.