page_title: Choate Rosemary Hall
section_title: Buildings and facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Choate Rosemary Hall / Buildings and facilities
caption_attribution_description: Memorial House (dorm) - Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut, USA. Built 1921.
context_page_description: Choate Rosemary Hall is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1890, it took its present name and began a co-educational system with the 1971 merger of The Choate School for boys and Rosemary Hall for girls. It is part of the Eight Schools Association and the Ten Schools Admissions Organization. Its alumni include many members of the New England establishment and the American political elite.
context_section_description: The 458-acre (1.85 km²) campus contains 121 buildings in a variety of architectural styles. Georgian Revival predominates (examples by famed traditionalist architect Ralph Adams Cram and by Polhemus & Coffin), but there are also eighteenth- and nineteenth-century houses and dramatic modernist structures (examples by I.M. Pei and by James Polshek).
  Principal buildings are in Georgian red brick, often with classical porticoes that were, by design, the unifying architectural feature of the early building phase. Of this type are, in chronological order:
  Hill House: Built 1911, designed by Francis Waterman; administration offices, with dormitory above.
  West Wing: Built 1914; adjoining Hill House, a dining hall, with dormitory above.
  Former Student Activities Center (formerly Gymnasium): Built 1917 as a gym, renovated 1979; currently unused, with a connector to the Larry Hart Pool.
  Memorial House: Built 1921; dormitory on the northwest campus, designed to mirror Hill House on the southwest campus.
  Seymour St. John Chapel (formerly St. Andrew's Chapel): Built 1924, designed by Ralph Adams Cram; recently the filming location for commercials of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
  Andrew Mellon Library: Built 1925, designed by Edward Mellon; given by U.S. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon P'25; Library special collections include correspondence and memorabilia of John F. Kennedy '35, Adlai Stevenson '18, Edward Albee '46, Caresse Crosby 1910 and other alumni, the Haffenreffer Collection of early American documents and autographs, and collections related to Thomas Hardy and other writers.
  Archbold: Built 1928, designed by Ralph Adams Cram; its scale on the northeast campus mirrors those of Hill House and Memorial House on the west campus; formerly the largest school infirmary in the country, it now houses the visitor center and admissions office, with dormitory above.
  Hall: Built 1929; adjoining West Wing, a cavernous dining hall, with dormitory above.
  Paul Mellon Humanities Center (formerly Paul Mellon Science Hall): Built 1938, designed by Charles Fuller; houses the digital video lab and the departments of English, History, Philosophy, Religion, and Social Sciences.
  Logan Munroe House: Built 1947; dormitory forming an ensemble with Memorial House, Nichols House, and Pitman House, linked by "Mem Circle" on the northwest campus.
  Nichols House: Built 1948, designed by Polhemus & Coffin; dormitory.
  George and Clara St. John Hall: Built 1957; departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, demolished 2015.
  Pitman House: Built 1960; dormitory.
  Library new wing: Built 1963; dedication poem read by Robert Frost.
  Steele Hall: Built 1967; departments of foreign languages.
  Tenney House and Bernhard House: Built 2008, designed by Centerbrook Architects & Planners; it follows the residential college model, the houses flank a courtyard and have a connector archway.
  St. John Hall: Built 2016, current student center, houses Choate Store, Tuck Shop, video game room, pool and ping pong tables, study rooms, newsroom, lockers for day students.
  Ann and George Colony Hall: Built 2019; serves as a venue for community and the Arts, complement to the Paul Mellon Arts Center.
  The I. M. Pei-designed buildings on campus are:
  Paul Mellon Arts Center ("PMAC"): Built 1972, the gift of Paul Mellon; it was prototype for the Pei-designed East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, which was also a Paul Mellon benefaction; with a 775-seat proscenium theater designed by George Izenour, a black box theater, a recital hall, film studio, exhibition galleries, fine arts studios, music practice rooms, associated dressing rooms, and classrooms; the PMAC is also the home of the Wallingford Symphony Orchestra and a frequent venue for touring companies.
  Icahn Center for Science (formerly Paul Mellon Science Center): Built 1989, the gift of Paul Mellon, renamed in 2001 following a gift from Carl C. Icahn; with 22 classrooms, laboratories, conservatory, and auditorium; departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
  Other large-scale buildings and athletic facilities 
caption: Georgian ensemble on the west campus: Andrew Mellon Library, George Steele Hall, Paul Mellon Humanities Center, and Memorial House
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