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610 EMERSON ST

Historic Name:
MORSE-INGERSOLL HALL

Other Name:

Reference Number:
58035

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Property Location

Location (Address)

610 EMERSON ST

County

Rock

City/Village

Beloit

Township

Unincorporated community

Town

Range

Direction

Section

Quarter Section

Quarter Quarter Section

Property Features

Year Built

1930

Additions

Survey Date

1980

Historic Use

university or college building

Architectural Style

Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival

Structural System

Wall Material

Brick

Architect

Granger & Bollenbacher, Chicago

Other Buildings On Site

Demolished

No

Demolished Date

Additional Comments

A red brick building in the Georgian style, two wings connnected by an arched throughway at the main floor level and by a corridor lined with faculty offices at the second floor level, this the main humanities building on the campus. It was deisgned by the Chicago architectural firm of Granger and Bolenbacher. Granger and Bollenbacher practiced in Chicago together and in association with other architects, including Elmo C. Lowe, Charles S. Frost and James Gamble Rogers. Among their best known buildings are the large Cloisters Apartment House near the University of Chicgao (1927), sixteen sorority buildings and two dormitories at Northwestern University, the Chicago Club (1928), and the Winnebago County Courthouse at Oshkosh, Wisconsin (1937). The cornerstone was laid on November 18, 1930, and the building was dedicated on October 20, 1931. The building was the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Morse of Lake Forest, in honor of their repsective fathers, Charles Morse and ChalmersIngersoll. The building contains classrooms, faculty offices, and auditorium seating 144, and houses various departments of the social sciences and humanities. It has worn well over its life of fity years, and is a building in constant use.

Bibliographic References

(A) Historical Sites and Points of Interest in Rock County, Wisconsin, Rock County Tourism Council, 5/1994. (B) Robert H. Irrmann, "Data on Beloit College Buildings," on file at RCHS Archives. (C) Withey and Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, pp. 64-65 and 246-247.

National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings

National/State Register Listing Name

Near East Side Historic District

National Register Listing Date

Jan 07, 1983

State Register Listing Date

Jan 01, 1989

Contributing

Yes

university or college building Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival

Rock
County

Beloit
Community

1930-1939
Decade

National and State Register Listing

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