Ewell Hall

Ewell Hall
Ewell Hall, 2015
General information
Address	221 Jamestown Road
Coordinates	37°16′13″N 76°42′36″W / 37.27028°N 76.71000°W / 37.27028; -76.71000
Year(s) built	1925–1926
Groundbreaking	June 3, 1925
Opened	November 27, 1926
Renovated	1954, 1957–1958, 1988
Owner	College of William & Mary
Design and construction
Architect(s)	John Kevan Peebles, Finlay Forbes Ferguson (1925)
Architecture firm	C. L. Lewis & Company (1957–1958)

Part of a series on the
Campus of the College of William & Mary
Historic Campus (College Yard) Wren Building Brafferton President's House
Old Campus Alumni House Tucker Hall Blow Hall Ewell Hall Sunken Garden Crim Dell bridge Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved
New Campus Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall Earl Gregg Swem Library Muscarelle Museum of Art Alan B. Miller Hall
Athletic facilities Zable Stadium Albert–Daly Field Jimmye Laycock Football Center Millie West Tennis Facility McCormack-Nagelsen Tennis Center Plumeri Park Kaplan Arena
Other Lake Matoaka Henry C. Wolf Law Library
Related Charles M. Robinson Charles Gillette W. A. R. Goodwin Bodleian Plate Williamsburg Bray School Virginia Institute of Marine Science Richard Bland College
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Ewell Hall is an academic building on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. The building was constructed in 1925–1926 on what is now Old Campus, across from Tucker Hall on the Sunken Garden. It was originally named Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall for Phi Beta Kappa, an honor society founded at the College of William & Mary and the oldest such society in the United States. John D. Rockefeller Jr. attended the hall's 1926 dedication; during this visit, W. A. R. Goodwin convinced Rockefeller to participate in a restoration program that became Colonial Williamsburg.

After a severe fire destroyed the auditorium portion of the building in 1953, a new Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall was opened in 1956. The building was renamed Ewell Hall for Benjamin Stoddert Ewell, a 19th-century president of the college, in 1957 and now hosts both the college's Music Department and Arts & Sciences administrative offices.