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 art of historic Old Main was demolished in 1979, and another building with strong historical
links to the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point also came down. The building at the corner of Sims Avenue and Fremont
Street was rental housing for the last quarter-century, but before that it was the Sims cottage; a duplex home management
house. It was built in 1915 to provide practice facilities for university home economics students.
The house, named for campus President John F. Sims, was constructed when Bessie Mae Allen headed the home ec department, and
it may have been the first of its type in the nation. It stood north of Old Main on Fremont Street and was moved in 1952 to
make room for a new library, now the Park Student Services Building. Then a house at 1103 Main Street was used for home
management. But that function has been discontinued, and now the Main Street house is used by the Suzuki Institution and
the Women's Resource Center.
The former Sims Cottage was razed and other homes on Sims Avenue were moved to expand the parking lot at St. Michael's
Hospital. A coming expansion project will eliminate some of the hospital's existing parking.
The Pointer, 1980
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