Mitchell Hall
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Building
Title: Mitchell Hall
Address: 514 19th Street, N.W.
Square and lot, bordering streets: Square 122 (E, F, 19th, 20th Streets)
Architect: Waddy B. Wood
Date of construction: 1927
Original owner: James J. Slattery
Description: This eight-story plus raised basement building, was the former All-States Hotel, and was acquired by GW in 1966 and began as a men’s dorm. It went co-ed in 1972/73. It is faced with Flemish bond brick on the main facades and six-course American bond on the rear. An arcade runs along the 19th Street side on the first floor entered through elegant sets of French doors with transoms. A belt course runs over the third floor. Both this course and the basement level are stone.
The building was named in 1967 for General "Billy" Mitchell (1879-1936), the first graduate of GW to achieve national name recognition. Mitchell was a junior in Columbian College, a member of the class of 1899, when the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898. A wartime drop-out, he served with the University's volunteers in that war, and returned to his studies two decades later, after World War I. He completed his Bachelor of Arts requirements here in 1919, and received his degree "as of the class of 1899.” Already well launched on a military career, Mitchell would come to be known in the 1920s as the controversial advocate of air power. (Written by Dr. Peter Hill)
Formerly on the square: The St. John's Episcopal Church Orphanage was formerly at the corner of 20th and F Streets.
Historic designation: None
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Author or Source: Peter Hill; Reconnaissance-Level Architectural Survey Of Properties In Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C., 1999
Document Location: University Archives
Date Added to Encyclopedia: January 18, 2007
Prepared by: Lyle Slovick, Assistant University Archivist
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