Somerville Hall
Project type: Colleges and Universities, Education and Health
Completed: 1938
Designers: R. W. Naef
Contractors: W. J. McGee and Son
Marked:
Yes
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Description
Somerville was built in 1938 as a women’s dormitory under Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works (which later became the PWA) Mississippi Project 1216-DS. It currently houses the English faculty and the Center for Writing and Rhetoric on the University of Mississippi campus. It is identified as a “contributing building” in the historic core of the campus.
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Somerville Hall, Front Entry with Marker
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Somerville Hall PWA Plaque
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Somerville Hall Front Entry
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory database. Master Plan 2009, University of Mississippi. Gerald W. Walton. (2008). The University of Mississippi: A Pictorial History. Nashville, TN: Booksmith Group.
Project originally submitted by Susan Allen on November 20, 2013.
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