A three-teacher laboratory school building constructed in 1932 mostly with student labor on the Rosenwald plan with three classrooms, and a large industrial room. It was named in honor of Willie G. Hill Powell who became, in 1911, the first teacher of foods in the home economics program at the College. She was born in Eufaula, Alabama, and educated at Knoxville College and the University of Chicago. After leaving the College in 1920, she became a very prominent business, civic and church leader in the Savannah community before she was killed in an automobile accident in December, 1934.

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