Friendship Hall

Friendship Hall, named for the friendship between Miss Berry and Mrs. Hammond, was built in 1925-26 with money donated by Mr.Henry T. Sloane, Mrs. Hammond's uncle. Coolidge and Carlson, of Boston, were the architects. When the building was practically completed, the inside and the roof were destroyed by fire, but it was rebuilt. It was traditionally "the senior mens' dorm" at the mountain campus. For a time after World War II, older male college freshmen, many veterans, were housed here because of a housing shortage on the college campus. In 1973, the upper floor was extensively renovated to prepare the dorm for the first female students, as they had not been admitted as boarding students before that time. The hall accommodates 55 women residents. The lower floor was used for upper-school classes after the two Hamrick Hall fires in 1955 and 1972. It once housed the middle school and the chaplain intern's office. A faculty apartment in the south end of the building, used as the dean's residence for many years, is still used for staff housing. The most striking architectural feature of Friendship is the two-story common room with a beamed cathedral ceiling, leaded casements, and a natural stone fireplace that rises to the ceiling.

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