McClintock Hall

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McClintock Hall

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McClintock Hall, October 2011
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Location 44 S. River St., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 41°14′52″N75°53′5″W / 41.24778°N 75.88472°W / 41.24778; -75.88472 Coordinates: 41°14′52″N75°53′5″W / 41.24778°N 75.88472°W / 41.24778; -75.88472
Area 8 acres (3.2 ha)
Built c. 1841
Built by Withers, F.C.
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP reference # 72001133 [1]
Added to NRHP March 16, 1972

McClintock Hall, also known as McClintock House, is a historic dormitory located on the campus of Wilkes University at Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1841, and is a 2 1/2-story, rectangular brick building in the Greek Revival style. It was renovated in 1863 to take its present appearance. It was built as the McClintock family residence and used as such into the 1950s, after which it was acquired by Wilkes College and used as a residence hall. [2]

Dormitory sleeping quarters or entire buildings primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters

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Wilkes University private American university located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Wilkes University is a private, non-denominational American university located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with branch centers in Mesa, Arizona, and Bartonsville, Pennsylvania. It has over 2,200 undergraduates and over 2,200 graduate students. Wilkes was founded in 1933 as a satellite campus of Bucknell University, and became an independent institution in 1947, naming itself Wilkes College, after English radical politician John Wilkes after whom Wilkes-Barre is named. The school was granted university status in January 1990. A doctoral university classification was granted by Carnegie Classification Institutions of Higher Education in 2019 - one of only 14 private institutions in Pa. to have this distinction. Wilkes University is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania City and County seat in Pennsylvania, United States

Wilkes-Barre is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Luzerne County. It is one of the principal cities in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley, it is second in size to the nearby city of Scranton. The Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 563,631 as of the 2010 Census, making it the fourth-largest metro/statistical area in the state of Pennsylvania. Wilkes-Barre and the surrounding Wyoming Valley are framed by the Pocono Mountains to the east, the Endless Mountains to the west, and the Lehigh Valley to the south. The Susquehanna River flows through the center of the valley and defines the northwestern border of the city.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. [1]

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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. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System.Note: This includes Pennsylvania Register of Historic Sites and Landmarks (August 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: McClintock Hall" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-15.