page_title: Bancroft Hall
section_title: The Rotunda and Memorial Hall
hierarchical_section_title: Bancroft Hall / The Rotunda and Memorial Hall
caption_attribution_description: English: United States Naval Academy (October 15, 2006) - Taken in the rotunda of Bancroft Hall, the largest dormitory in the United States.
context_page_description: Bancroft Hall, at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is said to be the largest contiguous set of academic dormitories in the U.S. Bancroft Hall, named after former U.S. Secretary of the Navy, and famous historian/author George Bancroft, is home for the entire brigade of 4,000 midshipmen, and contains some 1,700 rooms, 4.8 miles of corridors, and 33 acres of floor space. All the basic facilities that midshipmen need for daily living are found in the hall. It is referred to as "Mother B" or "The Hall" by Midshipmen.
context_section_description: Central to Bancroft Hall is the Rotunda, with wings on either side. Over the Rotunda is a large mural of the USS South Dakota (BB-57), during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in World War II.
  Memorial Hall is up the large staircase from the Rotunda. This hall contains the honor roll of over 2,660 Naval Academy alumni who have died in military operations; their names are listed by class year on the walls and includes non-graduates and midshipmen. In the front of the hall, opposite the entrance, is a panel containing the full names and class years of the 963 alumni who are listed as killed in action. This panel is organized by war and alphabetically by last name. Throughout the rest of the hall there are memorials and plaques to specific alumni or small groups of alumni. (Details about the lives of the men and women honored in Memorial Hall are catalogued at the Virtual Memorial Hall project.)
  There are 489 panes of glass in the skylight.
  Below Memorial Hall is Smoke Hall.
caption: Another view of the steps leading to Memorial Hall (in Bancroft Hall)
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