Central Cheney Historic District

The Central Cheney Historic District was established in 2001 and is maintained by the Cheney Historic Preservation Commission. The commission compiled a booklet of facts about the district that serves as a guide. The booklet is useful when touring downtown Cheney. It is well-researched, thorough, and most importantly given its size, direct. The reader and/or tourist is told all of the relevant and interesting facts about each building in the district in a short, easy-to-read space. The map is helpful, though it is located in the middle of the booklet, and there is no indication at the beginning that there will even be a map. This is a potential source of confusion. Overall, the downtown Cheney tour is well-put together and makes for a nice afternoon activity.

Class Project

I will be working on this project with Susie Dandrea. We have decided to look at various buildings on the Eastern Washington University campus as well as the Cheney area. These are the sites we will be working on:

• The football stadium (currently Roos Field)
• The one-room schoolhouse on campus
• The old waterworks building near the PUB
• The current Sig Ep building
• Hargreaves Hall
• The Pence Union Building (PUB)
• Willow Springs Hotel
• Dryden Hall
• Huston Hall
• Senior Hall

In order to fully research these places we will utilize the archives in EWU's library as well as other historical resources.