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| ======Stockbridge Hall====== |
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| **Constructed**: 1914 and 1954 |
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| **Architects**: James H. Ritchie, Boston, Mass. 1954 renovation to Bowker Auditorium: McClintock and Craig, Inc., Springfield, Mass. |
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| ===== Design and construction ===== |
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| <html><div style="float:right; padding-left:20px; padding-bottom:15px;"><a href="http://scua.library.umass.edu/speccollimages/referenceimages/RG150-0005436.png"><img src="http://scua.library.umass.edu/speccollimages/referenceimages/RG150-0005436.png" alt="Stockbridge Hall" style="width:220px; border:1px solid #333; padding:5px;" /></a> |
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| Flanked on either side by [[f:flint_laboratory|Flint Laboratory]] (left) and [[d:draper_hall|Draper Hall]] (right) and facing a central green, Stockbridge Hall and its neighboring Georgian Revival buildings were designed to evoke the feel of a New England common. In Georgian Revival style, the prominent three-bay entrance is framed by pilasters and free-standing columns and the building is graced by horizontal granite banding and a regular pattern of fenestration. |
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| The building was a relative latecomer to a campus dedicated to the study of agriculture. Today, the Stockbridge School of Agriculture -- a college within a University -- is a vital reminder of the early ideals of the campus. At the central core of the building is Bowker Auditorium, which hosts a diverse array of theater, dance, and music performances as well as literary readings and lectures. |
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| ===== Naming of the building===== |
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| Named after [[s:stockbridge_levi|Levi Stockbridge]], the University's first Professor of Agriculture and its third President. |
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| ==== Source ==== |
| * From //Three Architectural Tours: Selected Buildings on the Campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst// (Amherst, 2000) |
| * For additional information, consult the University Archives (RG 36/101). |
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