Timeline

Namesake

None

Architect

WHR Architects

Contractor(s)

SpawGlass Construction Corporation

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The campus landscape close to 60 years before the rise of AB5. Dormitories - such as the Departmental Dorms (upper right) and houses of three east (left) - and other houses dot the area along Avenue I.

A similar view, this time looking northeast, and we see a house north of Spivey House.

Twenty years later and that house is gone, as is most of the neighborhood between Avenues I and J. SHSU expanded south and made the area between the original Business Building and small houses a large parking area.

A view of Randel House from the newly constructed Smith-Hutson Business Administration Building addition in 2006.

Nothing much to see here - except Avenue I between the Drain Building and the faculty parking lot. Notice the bricked-in electrical equipment area already exists at this point.

A view of the Smith-Hutson Business Administration Building addition from near the front door of Randel House.

Remember that house we mentioned earlier? It's been gone for years by now but there's some interesting brickwork on the south side of the parking lot...

...and some other stray segments of cement that were photographed in March 2007. North of Randel and Spivey houses are two steps and a sidewalk that we assume could have lead to a house long ago demolished.

By July 2007 the parking lot (and stay sidewalk) were gone to make way for the building’s foundation.

By the next summer the framework of the building onthe rise.

The completed College of Humanities and Social Sciences building dwarfs two of the nearby small houses.

The CHSS Building dedication plaque.

The southeastern corner (and rear entrance, too) of the new CHSS building.

Newly installed signage at the southwest corner along Avenue I.