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At the same time, Thiry's design attempted to link the building to local conditions: the lobby of
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Perched on a hilly rise at the northeastern edge of the campus, the 400-student residence was promoted as a "dream dormitory" for women and may have been the first residential hall in the
Pacific Northwest with evident ties to European modernism. However, its interior connections to its local region
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country" because their wavy designs suggested the rolling hills of the surrounding landscape. An alumni magazine celebrated McGregor Hall and
Barnard Hall for their spacious, double rooms with picture windows and floors featuring kitchenettes, laundry units, and an outdoor lounge area (what later
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European architecture, the principal residential wings of Barnard and McGregor Halls feature an open-air stair-and-balcony tower that joins them at the campus-facing corner, reminiscent of
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International Style building on the Washington State University campus. It is one of the many dormitories on the Washington State University campus available to undergraduates. Variously called "Regents Hall" and the "Regents Hill Halls," the complex
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Japanese-influenced garden. Tucked behind McGregor Hall on a slope, a small, informal landscape of trees, shrubs, moss, stone pathways, and a small pond suggests the architect's travels to Asia in 1934 and his awareness of the Japanese work of
53:(originally named the "New Women's Dormitory" and officially renamed the "Regents Hill Dormitories" on December 4, 1951), consists of two, four-story linked residential wings, McGregor Hall and Barnard Hall, and Stearns Hall—a free-standing dining hall and common space. Together with
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became known as the "sun porch") with "flower garden and lawn." The magazine boasted of the building's common sewing and typing rooms and considered the design, overall, to mark a significant advance in campus housing because of its "home and small-group living."
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