Wing Hall is a building on the campus of

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

that was built during 1912–1914. It was listed on the

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in 1984. Wing Hall was designed by architect

E.B. Green Edward Brodhead Green (May 10, 1855 – February 2, 1950), very often referred to as E. B. Green, was a major American architect from New York (state), New York state. Early life and education Green was born in Utica, New York, on May 10, 1855. ...

, himself a Cornell alumnus, of Buffalo architectural firm

Green & Wicks Green & Wicks was an architectural firm of Buffalo, New York. Practice Edward Brodhead Green was an 1878 graduate of Cornell University's College of Architecture, and designed a number of buildings which made up Cornell's Agriculture Quadrangle ...

. Along with Fernow Hall and

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, designed by the same firm, it was funded by a New York State appropriation in 1912. It is a three-story building. Its main entrance is centered in its long elevation, with a central bay projecting slightly from flanking walls. It has a two-story three-bay-wide Ionic-columned

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, with

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defining the bays of the third story above. It was built for teaching of

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, and was located near recently built university barns, about one-half mile east of the original college buildings. Its NRHP nomination describes that "It combined extensive practical laboratory space with a library 'containing the herd and flock books of different breeds' and an auditorium into which live animals could be brought."

References

Cornell University buildings University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Tompkins County, New York Green & Wicks buildings {{TompkinsCountyNY-NRHP-stub