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| Brownell Hall was the final building added to the Trinity College [[old_campus|original campus]] in 1845 and was named for [[brownell_thomas_church|Thomas Church Brownell]], Trinity's first [[presidents|president]] and the third Episcopal Bishop in Connecticut. | Brownell Hall was the final building added to the Trinity College [[old_campus|original campus]] in 1845 and was named for [[brownell_thomas_church|Thomas Church Brownell]], Trinity's first [[presidents|president]] and the third Episcopal Bishop in Connecticut. |
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| Though it was not constructed for 20 years, images of Trinity with three buildings appeared as early as 1824, including in a survey of [[hartford|Hartford]] done in 1824 and in a woodcut on the title page of a journal called the //Episcopal Watchman// from 1827. | Though it was not constructed until 20 years after the first college building had been erected, images of Trinity with three buildings appeared as early as 1824, including in a survey of [[hartford|Hartford]] done in 1824 and in a woodcut on the title page of a journal called the //Episcopal Watchman// from 1827. |
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| Brownell Hall was possibly designed by Solomon Willard; a drawing of a nearly identical building holds his signature in the College archives. Brownell Hall was in exterior a replica of the [[jarvis_hall|"College,"]] and built in the ionic style in brownstone by Messrs. Campbell with woodwork by a Mr. Rowell. | Brownell Hall was likely designed by [[totten_silas|Silas Totten]], and drew inspiration from Willard's original drawings. ((Tolles, p. 140)) Brownell Hall was in exterior a replica of the [[jarvis_hall|"College,"]] and built in the ionic style in brownstone by Messrs. Campbell with woodwork by a Mr. Rowell. |
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| [{{:screenshot_160_.png?300 |The Brownell Hall cornerstone, mounted in Downes Clock Tower. Photo credit: Amanda Matava}}] | [{{:screenshot_160_.png?200 |The Brownell Hall cornerstone, mounted in Downes Clock Tower. Photo credit: Amanda Matava}}] |
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| //Within the structure were thirty-eight student rooms, a recitation hall, and an apartment to be occupied by a Professor and his family. Although similar in external appearance to Jarvis Hall, the new building's interior was notably different from Jarvis. An arrangement of rooms around "entries" - rather than the long halls of Jarvis - provided better light and also precluded the boisterous log-rolling contests which had caused so much trouble for the faculty committee on student discipline.// ((Weaver, p. 82)) | //Within the structure were thirty-eight student rooms, a recitation hall, and an apartment to be occupied by a Professor and his family. Although similar in external appearance to Jarvis Hall, the new building's interior was notably different from Jarvis. An arrangement of rooms around "entries" - rather than the long halls of Jarvis - provided better light and also precluded the boisterous log-rolling contests which had caused so much trouble for the faculty committee on student discipline.// ((Weaver, p. 82)) |
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| ===== Sources ===== | ===== Sources ===== |
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| | Architecture & Academe: College Buildings in New England before 1860 (2011) by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., pp. 136-142. |
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| [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/4|History of Trinity College]] (1967) by Glenn Weaver, pp. 82, 180, 184. | [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/4|History of Trinity College]] (1967) by Glenn Weaver, pp. 82, 180, 184. |
