Western Washington University
Western Washington University is a public university in Bellingham, Washington. The northernmost university in the contiguous United States, WWU was founded in 1893 as the state-funded New Whatcom Normal School, succeeding a private school of teaching for women founded in 1886. The university adopted its present name in 1977.
Old Main
Campus, Looking North to Downtown Bellingham
Fisher Fountain
Wilson Library
Bellingham is the county seat of Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington. It lies 21 miles (34 km) south of the U.S.–Canada border, between Vancouver, British Columbia, 52 miles (84 km) to the northwest and Seattle (90 miles to the south.
Aerial view of Bellingham
Boatbuilding at Pacific American Fisheries yard in Bellingham, 1916
An old bank building, built in 1900 in the Fairhaven Historic District
Bellingham circa 1909