The Evans Scholarship, sponsored by the Western Golf Association, administers the largest privately funded college scholarship program in the nation with more that 800 scholars currently enrolled in college.

The existing Scholarship House was demolished to make room for the new 25,000 square foot facility at 1800 Washtenaw Avenue. The new house is a 52-bed student home, featuring suites shared between four students, a reception area for guests and parents, and two student study areas. It is also one of the first buildings in Ann Arbor to utilize a fully underground storm water retention system.

As the architect of record, Hobbs + Black designed the building with features reminiscent of the larger brick or stone fraternity and sorority houses on the University of Michigan’s central campus. The new house features contemporary architecture, like curved glass floor to ceiling windows in the two student study rooms, but the house is also traditional in its form and detail.

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