West Hall is a building on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus in Troy, New York, United States.

[2] The design of the building is due to Marcus F. Cummings of Troy and noted as a major example of French Second Empire architecture.

The Sisters of Charity sold the building to the Albany Diocese in 1922 and it was converted to be used as a Catholic High School in 1923.

Following a complete renovation, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Geology occupied the building.

West Hall currently houses several offices, art studios, and rehearsal space for the Rensselaer Symphony Orchestra.

[4] The cables supposedly were put in place to anchor the building's foundations to an outcropping of bedrock near Walker Labs.

According to Thomas Zimmie PhD, PE, D.GE, a professor in the Civil Engineering Department of RPI, this kind of myth comes about worldwide.

[7] During West Hall's tenure as Catholic Central High School it acquired many of the classroom structures we see today, including separate entrances for the sexes.