File:Looking NE at W side of Wilson Hall - Montana State University - Bozeman, Montana - 2013-07-09.jpg

English: Looking northeast at the west side of Wilson Hall on the campus of Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.

Wilson Hall was constructed in 1976. It is named for Milburn Wilson, a professor of agricultural economics at Montana State from 1914 to 1934. He served briefly as the director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Division of Farm Management and Cost Accounting from 1924 to 1926. He returned to MSU, but on May 16, 1933, was named Chief Secretary for Wheat Production in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. On September 1, 1933, he was appointed Director of the Division of Subsistence Homesteads in the Department of the Interior. He helped to relocate rural families to urban areas until June 30, 1934. Roosevelt named him Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and promoted him in 1937 to be Undersecretary of Agriculture. He reamined there until February 1, 1940, when Roosevelt appointed him Director of Extension Work at USDA. He served in that role until 1949.

Wilson Hall houses the departments of English, history, math, Native American studies, philosophy, political science, and sociology. The Native American Cultural Center, Math Learning Center, and Writing Center are also located here. It underwent a $65,000 classroom renovation in 2011, and a $300,000 renovation to the Writing Center in 2012 enlarged and added windows to it. The trees north of Wilson Hall were cut down in 2013 to make room for the new Jabs College of Business, which will begin construction in 2014.