| College Hall | |
|---|---|
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | High Victorian Gothic |
| Address | 10 Elm Street |
| Town or city | Northampton, Massachusetts |
| Country | United States |
| Year(s) built | 1874–1875 |
| Owner | Smith College |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Peabody & Stearns |
| Renovating team | |
| Renovating firm | Dietz & Company Architects |
College Hall | |
| Coordinates | 42°19′4.1″N 72°38′9.3″W / 42.317806°N 72.635917°W |
| Part of | Northampton Downtown Historic District ( ID76000270) |
| Designated CP | May 17, 1976 |
College Hall is a building on the Smith College campus, designed by Peabody & Stearns.
Granite foundation
Brick, brownstone, limestone, granite wall/trim
Slate roof
Peabody and Stearns who designed this building in the High Victorian Gothic style adopted Italian Gothic antecedents for the two-and-a-half story brick building. For its overall form, the asymmetrical building has a truncated hipped roof of slate at its center with three transverse gable bays projecting from east and west elevations and shallow pavilions projecting from its north façade and south elevation. An off-center, five story clock tower with an attached side pavilion contains the main entry to the building on the north façade through double-leaf doors. Medieval Italian architectural features are the arched entry whose jambs consist of brownstone colonettes with limestone capitals flanked by engaged buttresses, and the permanent polychromy favored by the style in the form of alternating voussoirs of limestone and brownstone. Triple, pointed-arch windows whose mullions are paired brownstone colonettes with granite capitals alternate with limestone lintels on the second floor with Gothic label hoodmolds with label stops. On the roof, front-gabled dormers are ornamented with Gothic tracery in the form of barge boards on braces. Patterned brickwork adds visual interest to the exterior surface of the building while tying all the features together by circling the building with a dentilled brick cornice, stringcourses of limestone, a watertable of brownstone. Elsewhere brick corbels support a balcony on the tower, brick spires ornament the tower corners, limestone quoins contrast with brick on one bay; they are joined by trefoils on lintels, and cresting rails that altogether make up the High Victorian Gothic style.
https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=nth.738
https://www.towersgolde.com/smith-college-hall
https://dietzarch.com/portfolio/college-hall-smith-college/
https://www.loc.gov/item/2016804004/
