Iowa State University. Dept. of Residence. Richardson Court Houses.

The Department of Housing was established in 1930. The name was changed to the Department of Residence in 1937. The Department of Responsible for the administration, financing, and development of all universitystudent housing facilities.

The first acacdemic building on campus, Old Main, housed 77 men and 16 women in 1869. The President soon recognized a problem in the co-ed housing situation and appointed Mary Lovelace as Preseptress to look after the women students. A room bureau for the men was handled by the YMCA and supervised by the Committee on Student Accommodations. In 1925, the State Board of Education was authorized to borrow moeny for the construction of housing facilities with the University pledging the net income from the entire housing system toward repayment indebtedness incurred for additions to any part of it.

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