Texas State College for Women - Daedalian Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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, 23-iffftf' Household Arts Building . . . from domestic science to scientific research The yellow-bricked Household Arts Building, second of the educational buildings to rise on the TSCW campus, was completed in 1914. At that time Courses in home economics were the most popular the college offered, giving truthful boast that TSCW installed the first laboratories in Texas for the teaching of Cooking and sewing. These two subjects made up the backbone of the first home economics department, but early students also learned weaving, dairying, poultry-raising, laundrying and gardening, all centered under domestic arts. During the almost forty years that home economics was taught in this building, an impressive list of firsts was credited to the college in that field. and TSCW's Department of Home Economics became recognized as one of the leading ones in the nation. Early basic courses in cooking and sewing grew into an integrated department offering degrees in eight phases of home economics. Today the Household Arts Building that for so many years was the root of home economics at TSCW stands as an adjunct to the new College of House- hold Arts and Sciences, sheltering the most modern of its fields, scientific research. It also is the home of the Occupational Therapy Department, one of the newest of the professional fields open to TSCW students . . . a sharp contrast to the buildings early days when womens activities primarily were focused on sewing and cooking. Denton County's courthouse was surrounded by sand and flanked by an old-fashioned hitching post when wagons creaked back and forth from the brickyard to the wooded hill that was someday to become Texas State College for women. Those wagons were carrying the bricks for the building that would be the key- stone of TSCW's campus . . . the building whose dome would cover the center of knowledge of the world's foremost women's university. The class building with which Cree Work began his dream of this great womens school was enlarged in 1914 by the addition of two wings, but its central portion is the same now as in the days whenga stable stood nearby to shelter professors' horses and buggies. Even as it was completed, the Administration Building seemed destined to herald the opening of a new era, for at that same time the Wright Brothers were putting to sky. their revolutionary aero- plane, and Henry Ford was perfecting his motor car. TSCW, too, would stand for progress in its truest form.

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