Bancroft Hall

Bancroft Hall was designed in the Beaux-Arts style with its mansard roof and dormer windows by architect Ernest Flagg and its central rotunda and first two wings were built in 1901–06.

A nine-year renovation project completed in 2003 by The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company and RTKL Associates Inc. of Baltimore, Maryland included 1,600 miles (2,600 km) of wiring to equip the building with a modern data communication network.

There are rooms in Bancroft dedicated to each Academy graduate Medal of Honor recipient in the United States Navy or Marine Corps.

Over the Rotunda is a large mural of the USS South Dakota (BB-57), during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in World War II.

This hall contains the honor roll of over 2,660 Naval Academy alumni who have died in military operations; their names are listed by class year on the walls and includes non-graduates and midshipmen.

[7] In the front of the hall, opposite the entrance, is a panel containing the full names and class years of the 963 alumni who are listed as killed in action.

Noon Meal Formation, a daily mustering ceremony held on Tecumseh Court in front of Bancroft Hall.
A panorama of Bancroft Hall ( c. 1911)
A map of the Naval Academy campus in 1924. Bancroft Hall is located on the far right, the largest building on the campus
A view of the inside of Memorial Hall (part of Bancroft Hall)
Another view of the steps leading to Memorial Hall (in Bancroft Hall)