The Ohio University West Green Dormitory Project'sground breaking event was held on November 19, 1960, and the West Green was dedicated on October 18, 1964.

According to Ohio University, the west green contains the following buildings: Porter Hall, Grover Center, Grosvenor Hall, James Hall, Sargent Hall, Treudley Hall, Boyd Hall, Ryors Hall, Irvine Hall, Stocker Center, Wilson Residence Hall, Parks Hall, Grosvenor, West Wing, Margaret M. Walter Hall, Irvine Hall Annex, Ryors hall Annex and Bicentennial Park. Anderson laboratory was constructed in 1973 and demolished in 2008; it stood next to Porter Hall.

West Green is home to many Engineering majors and Athletes due to the ready access of Stocker Center and the Stadium. It is also the location of the College of Osteopathic Medicine.

• Additional facts about West Green

Additional facts about West Green

• Press Release - Ohio University Office of Technology
  David N. Keller, director
  November 19, 1960

  Students, trustees, faculty, administrators and friends of Ohio University joined in breaking ground Friday for a West Green dormitory area. The ceremony was held at 4PM on the site of the proposed project just south of the President Street Bridge.

  Three members of the Bobcat football squad started the program by manning a grader to turn ground the modern way. They were Co-captains Dick Greeni and Joe Dean, and Fullback Bob Brooks.

  Later the trio switched to shovel to again turn sod, together with Trustees Gordon Bush and Fred H. Johnson and OU President John C. Baker.

  Brandon T. Grover, assistant to the president, served as master of ceremonies. Behind him at the podium stood student members of East Green Council.

  In a brief groundbreaking address, President Baker told of student participation in making plans for West Green. Suggestions made in a report from East Green residents were incorporated into the master plan for the new housing project, he said.

  Special guest at the ceremony were Mr. and Mrs. Russell S. Potter of Cincinnati. Mr. Potter is a member of the firm Potter, Tyler, Martin & Roth, architects for both East Green and West Green.

  The close relationship between the two projects was further commemorated with open houses al all East Green dormitories following the football game with Southern Illinois. A brief dedication announcement was also read at halftime of the game.

• Excerpt From Press Release - Ohio University Office of Public Relations
  David. N. Keller, director
  June 17, 1962

  Two new Ohio University dormitories have been named for men who helped shape the history of the University.

  They are Parks Hall and Grosvenor Hall, the first two buildings in the University’s West Green Dormitory project.

  A brevet (brigadier) general during the Civil War, Charles H. Grosvenor also served for 20 years as U. S. Congressman and was responsible for getting Andrew Carnegie to provide funds for a library at Ohio University.

  The dormitory named in his honor has been completed, and will house approximately 250 students beginning this September.

  It has been named for Professor Emeritus George C. Parks, a 1908 graduate of the University who served for 40 years as an accounting professor, business manager, treasurer, and secretary of the Board of Trustees before his retirement in 1948.

  Still a resident of Athens, Professor Parks has a farm where he raises Hereford cattle. His second main interest is the study of the Civil War, in which General Grosvenor played an important role.

  General Grosvenor, in addition to getting the Carnegie Library (now a classroom building) for Ohio, presented a helped pass a legislative bill that recovered some much-needed tax money for the University after the Civil War.

  Grosvenor Hall has dining facilities for 1600, which will be utilized when the other dormitories are built.

• Press Release - Ohio University Office of Technology
  David N. Keller, director
  Sept. 15, 1962

  One and a half units of a new 12 unit, $12,000,000 dormitory development will be in use when the fall semester begins at Ohio University Thursday (Sept. 20).

  Grosvenor Hall, a $1,750,000 structure, will house 254 men. Dining facilities for 1600 have also been included in the building, and will be in operation this fall.

  Approximately 160 men will occupy one wing of partially completed Parks Hall, the second West Green building to be started.

• Press Release - Ohio University Office of Technology
  David N. Keller, director
  Feb. 2, 1963

  Third dormitory of Ohio University’s West Green Dormitory Project will be opened this weekend for male student housing during the second semester at the University.

  Part of the 11 dormitory development scheduled to be completed in 1965, the third dormitory to be completed will house approximately 300 students.

  Costing $1,150,000 for building and furnishings, the new housing unit which has a total capacity of 479 has not yet been named.

  Parks Hall, the second unit, was partially opened to students during the fall semester. It will be filled to its capacity of 260 at the beginning of this new semester. Parks Hall cost $750,000.

  Grosvenor Hall, which initiated the West Green Project, housed 254 students for the first time last September, and is expected to accommodate approximately the same number starting in February.

  A fourth unit in the West Green Development will be open March 1, but will not be used to house students until fall semester next year. Built at a cost of $1,150,000, the fourth unit will be used temporarily to alleviate housing problems for large groups of visitors to the campus.

• West Green Open House
  October 18, 1964

  Presiding
  Dr. Vernon R. Alden
  President, Ohio University

  Introductions
  Sherry S. Seiber, president
  Women’s Inter-Dormitory Council
  
  Marion A. Fetters, president
  Men’s Inter-Dormitory Council
  
  West Green Dormitory Presidents
  
  Mary Lou Darrow, West Green V
  Phyllis E. Barcroft, West Green VI
  Steven L. Schoonover, Grosvenor Hall
  Alfred W. Riggs, James Hall
  Victor H. Buck, Parks Hall
  Philip L. Bauer, Sargent Hall
  Kenneth M. Lowe, Sargent Hall

  Remarks
  C. Stanley Mechem, president pro-tem
  Ohio State Senate
  
  Roger Cloud, speaker
  Ohio House of Representatives

  A tea and tours of West Green dormitories will follow the formal program. Host and hostesses are: Janis K. Blackschleger, West Green V; Rita M. Hughes, West Green VI; Robert D. Crooks, Grosvenor Hall; Alfred W. Riggs, James Hall; Jerry J. Hufnagle, Parks Hall; Harvey A. Somers, Sargent Hall.

  A special Guest is George C. Parks, a 1908 graduate of Ohio University and former business manager of the University, for whom a West Green dormitory has been named.

• Press Release - Ohio University Office of Public Relations
  David. N. Keller, director
  November 19, 1964

  Five dormitories on Ohio University’s West Green have been named by the Board of Trustees. The dormitories, most recent to be constructed in the housing area, have been designated by numbers since being completed.

  Three of the buildings were named for former presidents of the University: Isaac Crook, who served from 1896 to 1898; Alfred Ryors, 1848-1852; and James Irvine, 1822- 1824.

  The others were named for two former professors, both deceased. They were Dr. Hiram Roy Wilson, a graduate of 1896 and professor of English in the College of Education from 1897 to his retirement in 1945, and Frederick Treudly, a member of the faculty from 1902 to his retirement in 1921. Professor Treudly taught philosophy, sociology and educational methods.

  Dr. Wilson died in Athens Aug. 4, 1954, at the age of 89. Professor Treudly killed was when struck by an automobile on a Washington, D.C. street in 1939.

Information about West Green is courtesy of The Robert E. & Jean R. Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections at Ohio University.