Martin Hall, home of EWU’s psychology department, is the beating heart of any psychology major’s day. Through cramped, dated tiled hallways to classrooms built for elementary school students and seemingly randomly placed professor offices, students are free to amble around past empty classrooms and old-school desk-chairs in search of their classrooms. Despite this, a sizable amount of Martin Hall’s square footage is dedicated to collecting dust.
Completed in 1937, the building replaced the city of Cheney’s training school dedicated to the education of rural teachers. Completely remodeled in 1980, the fashion of the times is hidden away in Martin Hall’s closed doors and shadowed corners.
The majority of the building, conjoined with Williamson Hall’s education department, sports the ever-changing interiority of any older teaching building: the yellowing, tiled floors, the outdated bathroom paint, and the acoustical semi-damaged ceilings. Martin Hall’s dated tiles leading through hallways that twist into separate hallways that twist into randomly segmented rooms stem from years of renovations on inconsistent funding and ever-changing faculty presences….