Bond Hall (University of Notre Dame)

Bond Hall is a building on the campus of the University of Notre Dame which hosts student learning initiatives and a number of institutes including the Graduate School.

Architect Edward Lippincott Tilton of New York designed the two-story, Beaux Arts Classical structure, which was made from Indiana limestone.

Thomas J. Shahan blessed and dedicated the new library building and William Bourke Cockran delivered an oration on June 10, 1917, during the university's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

The head of the department at the time, Frank Montana, designed plans to renovate the interiors to fit the new needs of the Architecture school.

Theodore Hesburgh, the university president, and Pietro Belluschi, dean of the School of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The renovation also included an American Renaissance style 20,000 square-foot addition on the west side designed by Ellerbe Becket under the guidance of architecture chairman Thomas Gordon Smith.

The speakers included internationally renowned architects Allan Greenberg, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Demetri Porphyrios, who received honorary degrees from the School of Architecture.

Additionally, it houses the Graduate School, the Institute for Latino Studies and the Flatley Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement.

[18][19] The building is built in Indiana limestone, three stories high with an intermediate mezzanine level, low pitched green tile roof.

[20] The bust stands over an inscription featuring a quote from his De architectura: Architects who sought to be skilled with their hands without formal education have never been able to reach a position of authority in return for their labors; while those who relied only upon Reasoning and Scholarship were clearly pursuing the shadow, not the substance.

The main entrance to Bond Hall, built originally as Lemonnier Library
Main entrance to Bond Hall, with a scale model of the Parthenon 's columns
Concert on the Steps at Bond Hall, by the Band of the Fighting Irish
The back side of Bond Hall with a bust of Vitruvius and a quote from his Ten Books of Architecture