Main Hall (Lawrence University)

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Main Hall, Lawrence University
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Location 501 E. College Ave., Appleton, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
Coordinates 44°15′39″N88°23′58″W / 44.26083°N 88.39944°W / 44.26083; -88.39944 Coordinates: 44°15′39″N88°23′58″W / 44.26083°N 88.39944°W / 44.26083; -88.39944
Area less than one acre
Built 1853
Architect Peter Williamson
Architectural style Classical revival
NRHP reference # 74000113 [1]
Added to NRHP January 18, 1974

Main Hall is an academic building on the campus of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. Constructed in 1853, [2] it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [1]

Lawrence University Liberal arts college and conservatory of music, in Appleton, Wisconsin

Lawrence University is a liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1847, the school held its first classes on November 12, 1849. Lawrence was the second college in the United States to be founded as a coeducational institution.

Appleton, Wisconsin City in Wisconsin, United States

Appleton is a city in Outagamie (mostly), Calumet, and Winnebago counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. One of the Fox Cities, it is situated on the Fox River, 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Green Bay and 100 miles (160 km) north of Milwaukee. Appleton is the county seat of Outagamie County. The population was 72,623 at the 2010 census. Of this figure, 60,045 resided in Outagamie County, 11,088 in Calumet County, and 1,490 in Winnebago County. Appleton is the principal city of the Appleton, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, Wisconsin Combined Statistical Area. Appleton is home to the two tallest buildings in Outagamie County, the Zuelke Building and the 222 Building, at 168 and 183 feet, respectively.

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Main Hall was the second building on the Lawrence campus, after the long-demolished Lawrence Institute building erected in 1848. [3] Funding for the building came from the sale of $100 "perpetual scholarships" to Lawrence College. It is constructed of stone from local limestone quarries, with a dome made from wood and hand-hewed beams from local sawmills. [4] When it was first built, Main Hall housed a library, chapel, classrooms, housing for men, and offices for faculty and administration.

The building was known in the early twentieth century as "Recitation Hall." [3] It was remodeled in 1938, 1941, the 1970s, and 1999. A sundial from Milwaukee-Downer College was added to the back of the building after that institution merged with Lawrence in 1964. As of 2010, it held classrooms and offices for classics, languages, history, philosophy, and religious studies departments, as well as a student commons and a faculty lounge. [4]

Milwaukee-Downer College was a women's college in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in operation from 1895 to 1964.

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. "Academic buildings". Lawrence University. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  3. 1 2 Samuel Plantz, "Lawrence College", Wisconsin Magazine of History, December 1922, at 146.
  4. 1 2 Council of Independent Colleges, "Main Hall", Historic Campus Architecture Project.