Acheson Hall Annex is one of a number of temporary buildings erected in 1966 to provide needed classroom space.
An inventor and industrialist, Edward Goodrich Acheson worked for Thomas Edison from 1880-1886. He developed silicon carbide and founded the Carborundum Corporation. The Acheson family and the Carborundum Charitable Foundation contributed $250,000 toward the construction of Acheson Hall (now the Pharmacy Building) built in 1959 as a hall of chemistry. Acheson Hall Annex is named for its close proximity to what was then Acheson Hall.