Friendly Hall

Friendly Hall, built in 1893, is a three-story, red-brick masonry building located on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon, United States.

The building was named for Samson Friendly, a Eugene merchant, Eugene city mayor (1893–95) and a member of the Union University Association, which established the university.

[2] Completed in 1893, the building was intended to be co-ed housing for the students at the school with separate entrances for men in the north and women in the south, and a communal dining area in the center.

This idea only lasted for one year before it was converted to a fully male dormitory.

[3] The building continued to be used in this fashion until 1928, when Straub Hall opened as the new dorm and it was then converted into office space.

Friendly Hall in 2011
Friendly Hall with The Pioneer statue in the foreground, c. 1958