Western 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.

Similar in construction and adjacent to Stuttgart Hall, north of McElhannon Hall, Western Hall was an L-shaped warehouse that afforded reserve classroom space. In 1951, Western Hall was moved due to the construction of Evans Hall.