草榴社区

aerial view of Western's campus at night, with golden lights surrounded by dark trees

Did you know? 'Father of Pioneer Square' designed VU addition at 草榴社区 in 1967

Ralph D. Anderson, the famed Seattle architect who began a movement to restore the architecture of Seattle's historic Pioneer Square, was the architect behind the 1960s addition to the Viking Union on the Western Washington University campus. Work on that addition was begun in 1967 and was finished by 1970.

Anderson died on Oct. 24, 2010. .

are available online from Special Collections.