Richardson Hall, also known as College Building and Main Hall, is a historic institutional building at
St. Lawrence University
St. Lawrence University is a private liberal arts college in the village of Canton in St. Lawrence County, New York. It has roughly 2,100 undergraduate and 100 graduate students.
Though St. Lawrence today is nonsectarian, it was founded in 1 ...
,
Canton
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Administrative divisions
* Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries
* Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French
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* Canton (band), an It ...
, in
St. Lawrence County, New York. It is a three-story rectangular brick structure built on a high
sandstone
Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...
foundation. When constructed in 1855–1856, it housed the dining room, chapel, classrooms, and dormitory space. It was renovated in 1906 and 1962.
[ ''See also:'' ] It is located within the
St. Lawrence University-Old Campus Historic District.
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It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1974.
References
University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Residential buildings completed in 1856
Buildings and structures in St. Lawrence County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in St. Lawrence County, New York
1855 establishments in New York (state)
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