It was sponsored by a $100,000 gift (equivalent to $3.01 million in 2023) from the parents of Mabel Shaw Bridges, a student in Pomona's class of 1908 who died of illness her junior year.

[7] The hall was designed as the primary anchor point for the south side of Marston Quadrangle in Hunt's Master Plan for the Pomona campus.

[8] The hall was closed in 1969 following the discovery of structural defects,[9] and fears that it would be demolished prompted a successful fundraising campaign that enabled a renovation, including a seismic retrofitting,[3] beginning in 1971.

[15] The southern half contains a colonnade with Ionic columns surrounding Lebus Court, home to the college's art history department and The Spirit of Spanish Music, a bronze sculpture by Burt William Johnson.

[16] It was constructed by C. B. Fisk and installed in 2001 after a planning process that lasted over a decade,[17] and has 3519 pipes over 66 ranks, weighing 20 short tons (40,000 lb; 18,000 kg).