Brookings Hall
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Brookings Hall is a prominent Collegiate Gothic structure on the campus of Washington University.
The building first named University Hall, was built between 1900 and 1902. With the first cornerstone laid on November 3, 1900. The University leased the building, as an Administration Building, to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company for use during the 1904 World’s Fair.
Philadelphia firm Cope & Stewardson, represented by James P. Jamieson, designed the building. The general contractor was Bright Construction Company. Brookings was built in collegiate Gothic style with some arguing that it is a replica of Windsor Castle.[1] The building, however, is most similar to Blair Hall of Princeton University, which was designed by the same firm and built in 1897.[2] The two companies also built many of the buildings on the original Quad. The building was occupied as the administrative center by the University in February 1905, and was known for many years thereafter as University Hall. And was renamed to Brookings Hall on June 12, 1928, in honor of board president Robert S. Brookings.
Their are numerous inscriptions on the building most prominent: the inscription above the clock on the Western side reads Cedunt Horae, Opera Manent (The hours go by, the works remain). The inscription on the east facade of Brookings Hall reads Discere Si Cupias Intra: Salvere Iubemus (If you wish to learn, enter: we welcome you).
A nearly identical copy of the building was built shortly after the fair at the newly created Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri.
[edit] References
- ^ Gallery-Framed ROSCOE MISSELHORN Color Print - Washington University, Brookings Hall, St. Louis MO: MS-205E: Removed
- ^ Blair Hall
