Property Record
610 EMERSON ST
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | MORSE-INGERSOLL HALL |
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| Contributing: | Yes |
| Reference Number: | 58035 |
| Location (Address): | 610 EMERSON ST |
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| County: | Rock |
| City: | Beloit |
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| Year Built: | 1930 |
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| Survey Date: | 1980 |
| Historic Use: | university or college building |
| Architectural Style: | Colonial Revival/Georgian Revival |
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| Wall Material: | Brick |
| Architect: | Granger & Bollenbacher, Chicago |
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| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Near East Side Historic District |
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| National Register Listing Date: | 1/7/1983 |
| State Register Listing Date: | 1/1/1989 |
| National Register Multiple Property Name: | Multiple Resources of Beloit |
| Additional Information: | 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. |
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| 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. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |