Georgetown University LogoGeorgetown University Library LogoDigitalGeorgetown Home
    • Login
    View Item 
    •   DigitalGeorgetown Home
    • Digital and Special Collections @ Georgetown University
    • University Archives
    • Photograph Selections from University Archives
    • View Item
    •   DigitalGeorgetown Home
    • Digital and Special Collections @ Georgetown University
    • University Archives
    • Photograph Selections from University Archives
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Healy Hall at Georgetown University, as viewed from the east side

    Healy Hall at Georgetown University, as viewed from the east side
    View/Open
    View/Open: 25.jpg (1.1MB)

    Creator
    Unknown
    Repository
    DigitalGeorgetown
    Georgetown University Archives, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington, D.C.
    Contributor
    Georgetown College (1789-1815)
    Georgetown University
    Description
    Work began on Healy Hall in late 1877. It was to have space for laboratories and a new library, as well as classrooms, dormitory rooms, and a meeting area for alumni. The firm of J.L. Smithmeyer & Company, who also designed the main building of the Library of Congress, drew up the plans. Their product, massive in scale, is 312 feet long and 95 feet wide with a clock tower that rises 200 feet. With Healy Hall’s opening, the University doubled the total square footage of its buildings. Healy was the first of our buildings to face the city rather than the river and it has been suggested that Patrick F. Healy, S.J., who planned the building, deliberately oriented it as a signal that Georgetown should be viewed, from that point on, as an educational institution of national importance. The time shown on the clock is approximately 8:35.
    Permanent Link
    http://hdl.handle.net/10822/554505
    Date
    1900
    Rights
    Rights Note
    For more information about copyright for materials within DigitalGeorgetown, please consult https://www.library.georgetown.edu/copyright/digitalgeorgetown.
    Subject
    Healy Hall; J.C. Smithmeyer & Company; Construction of Healy Hall; Healy Hall - construction of; Patrick F. Healy;
    Type
    Photographs
    Collections
    • Photograph Selections from University Archives
    Metadata
    Show full item record

    Related items

    Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.

    • Mulledy Hall at Georgetown University, as viewed from the north side

      Mulledy Hall at Georgetown University, as viewed from the north side 

      Unknown (1898)
    Related Items in Google Scholar

    Georgetown University Seal
    ©2009 - 2023 Georgetown University Library
    37th & O Streets NW
    Washington DC 20057-1174
    202.687.7385
    digitalscholarship@georgetown.edu
    Accessibility
     

     

    Browse

    All of DigitalGeorgetownCommunities & CollectionsCreatorsTitlesBy Creation DateThis CollectionCreatorsTitlesBy Creation Date

    My Account

    Login

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    Georgetown University Seal
    ©2009 - 2023 Georgetown University Library
    37th & O Streets NW
    Washington DC 20057-1174
    202.687.7385
    digitalscholarship@georgetown.edu
    Accessibility