Dean Hall, the campus cooperative house for women, was the original home of George and Belle Dean. Upon building a new home at Haven Hills Farm, Dean Hall was donated to Albion College in 1928 for use as a women's dormitory.

On Saturday, February 27, 1937, fire swept through the house and almost burned it to the ground. The 24 residents moved into temporary quarters until a new structure arose in the fall of the same year on the same East Erie Street site.

In the 1938-39 catalogue, the entry read in part: "The new building, a beautiful, white structure of colonial design, has accommodations on the cooperative plan for twenty-six girls and a house mother." (Albion College Bulletin, 1938-39, p.24) For nearly half a century it continued to function on that basis. (Fennimore, p.522-23)

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