The Popular Culture Department is located in a house ordered from Montgomery Ward & Company, erected in 1932 by Virgil H. Taylor. This house is probably
one of the last of the Montgomery Ward houses, as they stopped publishing their house catalog in 1931.
Bowling Green State University bought the building in 1937 to house the University President. A substantial addition was added
to the rear of the house in 1949. In addition to being the president's house, various University offices have been located
in the house, including the Alumni Association and the Graduate College. In the late seventies, the Popular Culture Department
moved into the house.
