Ross Hall

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Building

Title: Ross Hall

Full title: Walter G. Ross Hall

Address: 2300 I Street, N.W.

Square and lot, bordering streets: Square 40 and 41 (H, I, 23rd, 24th Streets)

Architect: Mills, Petticord & Mills

Date of construction: 1970-73

Original owner: George Washington University

Description: This seven-story reinforced concrete building occupies nearly three-quarters of a block, was built by the J.W. Bateson Company and cost $26 million. It contains the three-story Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, science classrooms, and a sub-basement parking garage. Above the top floor is a false front with vertical openings, which gives the massive building a decorative touch. Named after Walter George Ross, honorary Trustee and Honorary Doctor of Laws (1967) , Ross Hall (as the complex is commonly called) was completed in 1973. The University Mall, which abuts the Foggy Bottom metro station entrance and hospital, was completed and dedicated in 1980.

Historic designation: None

Document Information

Images: 1
Photographic Credit: GW University Historical Photographs Collection
Author or Source: Reconnaissance-Level Architectural Survey of Properties in Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C., 1999
Document Location: University Archives
Date Added to Encyclopedia: January 19, 2007
Prepared by: Lyle Slovick, Assistant University Archivist; G. David Anderson, University Archivist and Historian

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