Name: Spalding Hall. Named for Rev. John Landcaster Spalding of Peoria, Ill.
Date: 1962
Architect: Thomas Locraft
Elevation: 183.45'
Use: Formerly residence hall; now condemned and used for storage.
Style: Mid-20th-century modern.
Composition: Rectilinear and attached to two other residence halls, Conaty and Spellman.
Size: Five stories.
Gross square footage—35,874.
Net square footage—31,622
Materials: Brick
Trim: Brick
Roof: Flat
Windows: Aluminum
Doors: Glass doors
Note: Building is vacant, though it is flanked by occupied residence halls.
Setting: Building is set off 7th Street, N.E., surrounded by lawn, across Michigan Avenue, N.E., from the main campus.
Architecture: Spalding Hall is a simple, utilitarian, residential building with no particular character, ornament or distinction.
History: Built in 1962 as a residence hall, condemned at the beginning of the 21st century, and vacant at this writing.
Significance: Spalding Hall is not a contributing structure. It is unrelated to the main campus across Michigan Avenue and in its present condition is an adverse presence in the community.
Condition: Due to extensive repair problems, lack of air conditioning and inability to attract students to live in the facility, the hall was closed in 1991. The campus master plan reserves the site for potential cooperative ventures and mixed use development. Considering demolition of the building to accomplish this.
Floor Plans
Last Revised 04-Oct-05 01:10 PM.
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