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Lincoln Hall

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1896, Percy and Hamilton
  • Lincoln Hall (Julie Nicoletta)

Designed by a San Francisco firm, the two-and-one-half-story brick structure is adapted from several styles popular at the time and used for dormitories on eastern campuses. The whimsical design includes a long gable roof with gable wings crossing both ends, brick chimneys, Flemish gables along the parapet, and a central cupola in the Colonial Revival style. Rusticated granite accent blocks surrounding the entrance and rounded arches supporting the porch hint at the Neo-Romanesque. In the 1980s Lincoln Hall, originally a dormitory, became the center of the university honors program, providing rooms for participating students and space for related administrative offices.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Julie Nicoletta
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What's Nearby

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Citation

Julie Nicoletta, "Lincoln Hall", [Reno, Nevada], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/NV-01-NW011.4.

Print Source

Buildings of Nevada, Julie Nicoletta. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 69-69.

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