With funds contributed by Manny Delbrück, the Wawepex Building was fixed up in 1971 and reused as a dormitory for young scientists. The top two floors were made into bedrooms, and a kitchen occupied the lower level. Elizabeth Watson describes in the CSHL Richards Building Dedication Booklet that "Preservation" actually first occurred at the Lab the year after Jack [Richards] arrived, in 1971, when the derelict Wawepex Building (circa 1850) was rehabilitated to provide dormitory space for post-docs arriving from Harvard. Long condemned as unsafe by the Village of Laurel Hollow, Wawepex would have been torn down had the funds been available. But the Lab's first Cancer Center grant produced an influx of new staff and the funds to house them.