Opened in 1966 as a student union, the building was named in honor of St. Cloud's Atwood family, including Clarence Atwood. Atwood was an 1880 St. Cloud State graduate who served as the school's resident director from 1911 to 1921. Additions were constructed in 1972, 1993 and 2004.
Ground breaking of the Eden Prairie Campus construction. Lorin Gasterlund holding the shovel. The Brooklyn Park campus groundbreaking took place simultaneously on the same day.
First School Board for Independent School District Number 287. First row, from left: Richard Emery, Byron Brekke, Clifford Smith, unknown. Back row, from left: Judson Anderson, Dan McPherson, Roald Anderson, Harry Picha.
Group photograph of several Department Chairs, Administrators, Campus director (Ed Hill), and Assistant directors (Joe Pucel and Roger Lee) of the Brooklyn Park campus Suburban Suburban Hennepin County Area Vocation Technical School after an on-campus meeting. Front row from left: unknown woman, Joe Pucel, Roger Lee, Ed Hill, Joyce Goebel, Sylvia Lee, Wilfred ""Ike"" Eidenschink. Back row from left: Dale ""Lefty"" Hungerford, unknown woman, unknown man, John Markwell, Adrian Olsen, John Radway, Russ Fryer, Hans Gilgen, Dave Smith