5th 420

Wendler Boarding House

1909-10-15: H. Wendler has commenced excavating for a 26-room house on 5th & F streets. The house, when completed, will cost in the neighborhood of $25,000 and will be used for rooming purposes for students. Those who desire board will also be accommodated. Mr. Bloom has been engaged to erect the foundation and Mr. Looney will do the excavating and furnish the rock. Mr. Wendler expects to have the building covered this fall, so that the interior finishing may be carried on during the winter. Mr. Wendler had intended to build elsewhere, but concluded he could do no better that to make his venture in Cheney.

1918-05-17: The Normal School purchased the land fronting 5th from F to D (except for the Christian Church) The large house on the corner of 5th & F was renovated and used as a residence for men or women as needed. From March 1921 to June 1923 it was called the Teepee, serving as a residence for a group of men called The Apache Club. After Sutton Hall opened as a men's dormitory in 1923, the house became a residence for women called The Annex. In late 1923, the house was dismantled and removed.

The 2-story house at 420 5th was moved off campus to become the Wolfe apartments, it was still in use in 1964.