Angell Hall Addition Rites Slated Today
Angell Hall Addition Rites Slated Today
Colorful Ceremony Planned For Dedication Of $4,784,000 Unit
Angell Hall addition, a classroom and office building designed for use by about 10,000 students and faculty daily, was to be presented to the University by the Legislature this afternoon.
During the ceremonies beginning with an academic procession at 4:50 p.m., the newly completed $4,784,403 structure was to be officially given to the U-M by Joseph E. Warner of Ypsilanti, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
President Harlan Hatcher was to accept the building for the University. The presentation was to take place on the steps of the Central Library.
Replaces Old Haven Hall
The addition, begun in 1950, replaces Haven Hall, destroyed by fire on June 6 of that year; Mason Hall, the first University building authorized by the Board of Regents and completed in 1841; and University Hall and South Wing.
It consists of three connecting units: Mason Hall, a classroom section; Haven Hall, containing faculty office and seminar rooms and departmental quarters; and Angell Hall Auditoriums.
The three units provide a total of 177,873 square feet of space—much more than the buildings they replaced which totalled only 131,198 square feet.
The largest unit, four-story high Mason Hall, has 47 classrooms, departmental quarters for journalism, a vision research laboratory, a psychology workshop and laboratory, a Romance languages laboratory and a study hall.
Haven Hall, an eight-story unit, has office accommodations for 195 faculty members, 15 seminar rooms, and departmental quarters for English, history, political science, psychology and sociology.
Has Four Lecture Halls
The Angell Hall Auditoriums, a story and a half unit, contain four lecture halls with a total seating, capacity of 970 persons. Three of the halls seat 188, 192 and 244 persons respectively, while the fourth has 346 theater-type seats and a raised platform 18 feet wide. The latter hall is intended to be used for musical recitals, public lectures and similar events. Platforms in the other three are only 10 feet wide.
All four auditoriums have complete, modern facilities for showing motion pictures and slides from theater-type projection rooms.
Two of the many innovations in the buildings are the provisions for heat radiation under the sidewalks at each entrance and the classroom use of tables and chairs rather than chairs with writing arms.
The new addition was to be open for public inspection from 3 to 5 this afternoon.