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Dormitory at the new Western State Custodial School at Buckley (now called Rainier State School.) The dormitory, designed to house 80 patients, would be named Percival Hall after Senator Monty Percival, who fathered the proposed school through the 1937 state legislature. The facility, located 1 mile east of Buckley, is scheduled to open in the next 60 days. It consists of nine red tile roofed buildings, designed in a California Mission style, on a 1,400 acre tract. Although designed to eventually handle 3,000 handicapped children, the present facilities can only handle 300 due to a lack of dormitories. (T. Times 8/4/1939, pg. 1). Tacoma Public Library