{"id":1738,"date":"2011-03-21T15:33:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2017-11-21T18:31:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T18:31:39","slug":"richardson-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/encyclopedia\/richardson-hall","title":{"rendered":"Richardson Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/richardsonthumb1.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Richardson Hall\" width=\"326\" height=\"244\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Dates: <\/b>Built in 1960. Dedicated May 26, 1962.<\/p>\n<p><b>Quote:<\/b> Robert A. Currie, College Business Manager, recently released<br \/>\ndetails of the construction of Davidson&#8217;s new dormitory. The building will be<br \/>\ncomposed of sixty-two, two man rooms with a large lounge at the main entrance<br \/>\nto the first floor. . . . Each room will be 14 feet 8 inches long and<br \/>\neleven feet nine inches wide and will have one window. The floors will be<br \/>\nvinyl tile. The walls are to a light green color with darker green baseboards<br \/>\nand radiators. . . . The beds in each room will fit between the wall unit and<br \/>\nthe desks at the end of the room, parallel to the wall. This<br \/>\n&#8220;built-in&#8221; effect is a major change from the present dormitories<br \/>\nwhere beds project into the middle of the room with their heads at the walls. <i>&#8220;College<br \/>\nProudly Plans New Upperclass Dorm.&#8221; Davidsonian. 23 October 1959: 4.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Named for:<\/b> Lunsford Richardson, class of 1875, Lunsford Richardson,<br \/>\nJr., class of 1914, and H. Smith Richardson, class of 1906.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/archives\/encyclopedia\/davidson-college-campus-buildings\/\">Return<br \/>\nto Campus Building List<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dates: Built in 1960. Dedicated May 26, 1962. Quote: Robert A. Currie, College Business Manager, recently released details of the construction of Davidson&#8217;s new dormitory. The building will be composed of sixty-two, two man rooms with a large lounge at the main entrance to the first floor. . . . Each room will be 14 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23957,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/23957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidsonarchivesandspecialcollections.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}