Legacy Work · Higher Education · Campus
The Dunwody Buildings at Wesleyan College
Macon, Georgia
Four W. Elliott Dunwody buildings record Wesleyan’s postwar growth: Huckabee Hall, two residence halls, and a dedicated art building completed between 1957 and 1964.
- Huckabee Hall
- 1957 archive record
- Jones Hall
- 1959
- Hightower Hall
- 1963
- Murphey Art Building
- 1964
The project
Wesleyan attributes Huckabee Hall (1957), Jones Hall (1959), Hightower Hall (1963), and the Valeria McCullough Murphey Art Building (1964) to W. Elliott Dunwody.
Jones and Hightower added residence-hall capacity during a period of campus growth. Murphey created dedicated rooms for studio art and art history; the college describes it as the only academic building outside the main quadrangle.
The four commissions document a seven-year relationship rather than a single project. They added student rooms and art facilities to a campus whose principal lawns and axes had been established in the 1928 master plan.
Research record
Sources and provenance
Project facts and photography were archived from the firm’s public portfolio and cross-checked against the supplementary sources below.
Wesleyan College archival photograph preserved for the owner-authorized Atelier record.