The William Wheeler House, also known as Wheeler Hall, is a dormitory in the Central Residential Area of the

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. Designed by

Louis Ross Louis Warren Ross (July 18, 1893 – September 8, 1966) was an American architect from Boston, Massachusetts, perhaps best known for his work at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he designed over thirty of the campus buildings the ...

, who designed many of the other dormitories on campus as well as the university's

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, the Wheeler House was built in the

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style with

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accents. It is named after one of the university's first students William Wheeler, noted for his teaching and engineering work both in the United States and in

Sapporo ( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous city ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

.Tetsuo Takasaki, Hyōden oyatoi Amerikajin seinen kyōshi: Uiriamu Hoīrā = William Wheeler, 1851-1932 (Tōkyō : Kajima Shuppankai, 2004).

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Residential buildings completed in 1958 University of Massachusetts Amherst residence halls {{Massachusetts-university-stub