The Draper Hall Annex was a single-story office building which housed
emergency medical services
Emergency medical services (EMS), also known as ambulance services, pre-hospital care or paramedic services, are emergency services that provide urgent pre-hospital treatment and stabilisation for serious illness and injuries and transport to d ...
at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system and was founded in 1863 as the ...
. The building was adjoined to
Draper Hall, and had served as office space, classrooms, and at one time, home to the university's
polymer science
Polymer science or macromolecular science is a subfield of materials science concerned with polymers, primarily synthetic polymers such as plastics and elastomers. The field of polymer science includes researchers in multiple disciplines inclu ...
research.
History
After the
second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, UMass received an influx of applicants due to financial aid from the
G.I. Bill
The G.I. Bill, formally the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I. (military), G.I.s). The original G.I. Bill expired in ...
, and in order to accommodate the growing number of students, the university had to undergo a rapid expansion in a relatively short period of time. The Draper Annex was constructed in 1947 as a result of this demand, and for a number of years would serve as additional classroom and office space for university's the business and agricultural departments.
In 1961 the building changed functions, and became the main offices for the university's Polymer Research Institute and the home of the ne
Department of Polymer Science and Engineeringin 1974.
The annex was occupied by the
Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory
The Five College Radio Astronomical Observatory (FCRAO) was a radio astronomy observatory located on a peninsula in the Quabbin Reservoir. It was sited in the town of New Salem, Massachusetts on land that was originally part of Prescott, Massachu ...
program in the 1970s, and for many years housed the observatory machine shop on the main floor and excess storage in the basement.
With the completion of the
Silvio O. Conte
Silvio Ottavio Conte (November 9, 1921 – February 8, 1991) was an American lawyer and politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for 16 terms, representing the 1st Congressional District of Massachuset ...
National Center for Polymer Research in 1996, the department of polymer science would vacate the annex, as this new complex was capable of housing all the department's operations under one roof.
Subsequently, the UMass Emergency Medical Services relocated to the building.
In 2025 the building was demolished to make way for the new Sustainable Engineering Laboratory.
See also
*
Draper Hall
References
External links
UMass Emergency Medical Services
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University of Massachusetts Amherst buildings
1947 establishments in Massachusetts
University and college buildings completed in 1947