Wallace Annex

This was formerly called the Home Management House. There were originally two houses - one was to provide housing for women (before Hillcrest was built) and the other was what we now call Wallace Annex and served as a laboratory for a subject matter area called Home Management. The first house was torn down to make way for Hillcrest. Women in home economics were required to live in the Home Management house for 6 weeks to learn the fine art of managing a home - food buying, preparation, and serving; home cleaning techniques; and managing a budget. They also learned how to equip a home when resources were scarce and war rations were in force. The home management residence experience was discontinued in 1970. For the summers from 1968-1973, the house served as a live-in metabolic unit for a study about the protein requirements for children. The building then served as offices for MHFD (Management, Housing and Family Development) and then Family and Child Development before it's current use by Human Nutrition and Foods for both offices and a few nutrition studies.