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.