Child Development Laboratory

The Child Development Laboratory was dedicated together with the new Bevier Hall on April 4, 1957. [1] Designed by Naess & Murphy and Ernest Stouffer, [2] the new building was equipped with cork floors "to deaden noise and soften falls" and was to be a scientific laboratory in which students would become "living textbooks". The new facility primarily served 40 three and four year-olds from 9AM to 1PM Tuesday through Friday. [3]

Construction began on the facility in 1955 at a cost of $595,000. [4]