Prichard Hall (Huntington, West Virginia)
USA /
West Virginia /
Huntington /
Huntington, West Virginia
World
/ USA
/ West Virginia
/ Huntington
World / United States / West Virginia
office building, classrooms
Current use: Offices of Student Support Services, Career Counseling, the Technology Institute, the Women's Center, and the offices and class rooms of the School of Nursing.
Location: Eastern mid part of the inner campus.
Designers:C. E. Sillings, from Charleston, WV.
Completed: 1955, renovated 1973
Name: In honor of Lucy Prichard, a distinguished professor of classics and faculty leader during the 1920s and 30s.
This building is a four-story structure, and is a clear example of Modern architecture in its best, triumphal moment, when American architects were almost unanimously influenced by the Bauhaus great masters that immigrated to the US in the late 1930’s, and only few were following other conceptions. The plan is extremely rational and foreseeable, symmetrical and extended in length, with two lightly protruding blocks at each side of the main entrance. Originally, the function of this building was only residential. This is expressed in a one story high symmetrical extension, roofed by a horizontal slab, rendered as a soft-stone surface, which covers the lobby and entrance facilities. The rest of the building is flat roofed, and has brick work rendering, without any construction details as lintels, ledgers, or parapets. It appears as the Van der Rohe’s motto “Less is more” was thoroughly followed by the designers. The rear façade has an auxiliary entrance with a centered, high shaft which houses an elevator that expresses a strong vertical impetus due to thin, slender rectangular shaped ties that reminds the typical curtain wall finishing of the first Miesian buildings of Chicago.
Location: Eastern mid part of the inner campus.
Designers:C. E. Sillings, from Charleston, WV.
Completed: 1955, renovated 1973
Name: In honor of Lucy Prichard, a distinguished professor of classics and faculty leader during the 1920s and 30s.
This building is a four-story structure, and is a clear example of Modern architecture in its best, triumphal moment, when American architects were almost unanimously influenced by the Bauhaus great masters that immigrated to the US in the late 1930’s, and only few were following other conceptions. The plan is extremely rational and foreseeable, symmetrical and extended in length, with two lightly protruding blocks at each side of the main entrance. Originally, the function of this building was only residential. This is expressed in a one story high symmetrical extension, roofed by a horizontal slab, rendered as a soft-stone surface, which covers the lobby and entrance facilities. The rest of the building is flat roofed, and has brick work rendering, without any construction details as lintels, ledgers, or parapets. It appears as the Van der Rohe’s motto “Less is more” was thoroughly followed by the designers. The rear façade has an auxiliary entrance with a centered, high shaft which houses an elevator that expresses a strong vertical impetus due to thin, slender rectangular shaped ties that reminds the typical curtain wall finishing of the first Miesian buildings of Chicago.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 38°25'25"N 82°25'38"W
- Delaware Hall (DE) 179 km
- Engineering Sciences Building 252 km
- Health Sciences Center 265 km
- Bromfield Hall / Bromfield Library 265 km
- Fallerius Technical Education Center 265 km
- Memorial Hall 309 km
- College of Health and Human Performance 447 km
- National Advocacy Center 508 km
- School of Agriculture 601 km
- Engineering Building 601 km
- Marshall University 0.2 km
- Special Metals 3.8 km
- Lesage, Cabell County 12 km
- Riviera Country Club 12 km
- Cabell County, West Virginia 13 km
- Huntington Mall 14 km
- Miller, Ohio 16 km
- Green Bottom, West Virginia 19 km
- Lawrence County, Ohio 25 km
- Wayne County, West Virginia 32 km