Old Main Hall was built in 1896 as Central High School, which later began adding college classes in 1913. Those classes evolved into the Detroit Junior College in 1917, the College of the City of Detroit in 1923 and now WSU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In 1933, the Detroit Board of Education organized the siz colleges it ran - liberal arts, medical, education, pharmacy, engineering and a graduate school - into one university. In 1934, that institution was officially named Wayne University, taking its name from the county in which it is located.