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FLINN HALL, EDELMAN HALL (2007). On the site of disused tennis courts along Route 41, the trustees envisioned new residence halls that would sustain the “Hotchkiss Georgian style” begun by Cass Gilbert and Delano & Aldrich. Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the architecture school at Yale and a leading advocate of “contextualism,” was a natural choice to design them. According to the architect, “Our threeGARLAND HALL, NORTH ELEVATION
WATSON HALL
to 1970. Watson and the now-superceded Goss Gymnasium are the two all-new buildings at Hotchkiss by Evans Woollen, whose 15 years as campus architect were otherwise devoted to a series of sensitive alterations. He not only transformed Bissell, Ford Library, and Stubbins’ Main, as noted, but also did much to update Buehler, Tinker, and Wieler halls and more than a half-dozen faculty houses, including the former Belcher mansion, garage, and tack house. GARLAND HALL (1992) completes the group of dormitories west of the burial ground. Howard C. “Smoky” Bissell ’55, board president from 1993 to 1996, led the fund drive for this memorial to his late classmate, William Garland ’55. Henry S. “Dusty” Reeder ’57, of ARC Architects, designed a four-level building that exploits the hilly site and mixes Georgian elements – string courses, relief patterns in brick, paired end chimneys – with contemporary features such as square plate-glass windows. Forty-five upper-class girls live here on wide corridors in ample single rooms with built-in wardrobes, bureaus, and desks. There are four spacious duplex apartments for faculty. — 25 —