Eliot Hall (Reed College)

Eliot Hall is the primary administrative building of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, designed by Albert Ernest Doyle and built in 1912.

[2][3] Inspired by St John's College, Oxford, its architecture contains elements of Tudor[2] and Collegiate Gothic.

[3] It originally contained the administration office, lecture rooms, and laboratories for the various fields of study, and later, a museum, library, and chapel.

[3] It held various departments such as biology, chemistry, physics, and graphic design and was named the Arts and Science Building.

[3] Since the campus was set to open in September 1912 for the upcoming school year, Doyle had roughly eight months to complete construction.

[3] In 1966, the chemistry department was relocated and replaced with a print shop and a calligraphy studio as part of the new graphic design program.

[3] The main materials chosen in the construction were red brick and limestone for their long-lasting qualities and to make the building more aesthetically pleasing.

[2] The brick was patterned in an English bond style;[3] limestone was added to reinforce the building's structure.

[3] Just above one of the chapel doors on the southwest side of the building rests the college's seal, adorned with a griffin, a fleur-de-lis and a Richmond rose.

The fleur-de-lis was based on the ones found at Washington University, to pay tribute to Thomas Eliot and his alma mater.

Exterior in January 2017
Detail of the building's Tudor Gothic architecture, 2013