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1951
While a student at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Bruce Walker takes the $7,500 top prize in a nationwide NAHB/Architectural Forum small house competition. Second place goes to MIT professor of architecture Ralph Rapson.
1974
Renamed WMFL (for partners Bruce Walker, John McGough, Walt Foltz, and Jack Lyerla), the rm is selected for design of the Spokane Opera House and Washington State Expo Pavilion.
1976
The rm receives the commission for the Intercollegiate College of Nursing Education – the nation’s rst cooperative baccalaureate degree program in nursing education – to
be constructed near the campus of Spokane Falls Community College.
1978
The Safeco Divisional Of ce Building – a regional headquarters for eastern Washington, Idaho, and Montana – is completed.
1986
WMFL opens an of ce in downtown Seattle.
1982
The 18-story, block-long Farm Credit Banks Tower in downtown Spokane is completed. Through interior daylighting and a highly ef cient energy recovery system, the building sets a standard for energy conservation that, 30 years later, would measure up to LEED design goals.
1955
The rm is renamed Walker, McGough & Trogdon with the addition of fellow Harvard GSD alum Bill Trogdon as a partner. Five years later, it reverts to Walker & McGough when Trogdon leaves to form his own rm.
1959
The completion of the Shelton Correctional Facility sets Walker & McGough on the path of justice expertise and leads to a number of high-pro le projects around the country.
1963
The Ridpath Motor Inn is the rst of many iconic Spokane landmarks designed by the rm.
1953
1958
1967
Spokane’s Convent of the Holy Names is recognized as the nest architectural design in the nation by Progressive Architecture magazine. It was one of 16 AIA National Honor Award winners in 1969.
1962
The University of Washington’s Plant Services Building is Walker & McGough’s rst higher-education project. Over the next decade, the rm continues to perform work on the UW campus: Padelford Hall, the Performing Arts Building, Kane Hall, and Red Square.
The Washington Water Power Central Service Facility, designed in association with fellow Spokane architect Ken Brooks, is completed.
A year later, it earns Washington State’s rst AIA National Honor Award.
John McGough (left), a University of Idaho graduate, joins Bruce Walker’s edgling Spokane architecture rm as a draftsman. On August 15, the two form Bruce Walker & John McGough, Associated Architects.
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