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Painter Hall

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1814–1816; later interior remodelings. Old Stone Row
  • (Photograph by Curtis B. Johnson, C. B. Johnson Photography)

This oldest extant collegiate building in Vermont was erected as a dormitory organized around three entrances. A descendant of Yale's Connecticut Hall (itself a reflection of dormitory organization at Oxford and Cambridge), it is stylistically closer to the mill buildings then rising in Middlebury. Painter Hall was built of donated materials, mostly Weybridge limestone, but faced with scrap marble on the first floor, including a fragment of an unused grave marker as a lintel above one cellar window.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Glenn M. Andres and Curtis B. Johnson
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Citation

Glenn M. Andres and Curtis B. Johnson, "Painter Hall", [Middlebury, Vermont], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VT-01-AD30.1.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Vermont

Buildings of Vermont, Glenn M. Andres and Curtis B. Johnson. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 125-125.

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