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VENTRESS HALL

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1889

This building’s unknown designer abandoned William Nichols’s classicism in favor of the Queen Anne style and so made what was originally the university library unique on the campus. Decidedly asymmetrical, it is church-like at its prominent apse and militaristic at its corner tower with battlements. A stained glass window at the foot of the stair on the northeast facade commemorates Confederate dead, particularly members of the “University Greys,” who participated in Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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What's Nearby

THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI
UNIVERSITY CIRCLE
THE GROVE
BARNARD OBSERVATORY
Barnard Observatory

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "VENTRESS HALL", [University, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-NC25.3.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 156-156.

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