Lane Hall

This article is about the building on the campus of Bates College. For the Virginia Tech building, see Campus of Virginia Tech.

Lane Hall is a later 20th-century neoclassical building serving as the principal workplace and headquarters of the central administration of Bates College, located at 2 Andrews Road in Lewiston, Maine. It has been the principle administrative headquarters of every Bates president since Thomas Hedley Reynolds in 1964. Lane Hall was named after George Lane Jr., who served as treasurer of the college and secretary of the corporation. Lane overlooks the Historic Quadrangle of the college and protrudes from Lake Andrews.

Lane Hall
The northern facade with a columned entrance, facing Hathorn Hall and the Historic Quad
Interactive map of the Lane Hall area
Alternative names	metonymically as the academic administration of Bates College
General information
Status	Active and operational
Architectural style	Neoclassical, Palladian
Location	Lewiston, Maine, U.S.
Construction started	1963
Completed	1964
Cost	$4.8 million in 2016 USD
Owner	Bates College
Technical details
Size	29,000 square feet
Floor count	4

History

The construction of the Lane Hall began with the laying of the cornerstone in 1963, although there was no formal ceremony. The principal façade of the Lane Hall, from the north, is of four floors and eleven bays. The ground floor is hidden by a raised carriage ramp and parapet, thus the façade appears to be of three floors. The central three bays are behind a prostyle portico (this was a later addition to the hall, built in 1970) serving, thanks to the carriage ramp, as a porte cochere. The hall's southern façade is a combination of the Palladian and neoclassical styles of architecture. It is of three floors, all visible. The ground floor is rusticated in the Palladian fashion. At the center of the façade is a neoclassical projecting triangular point of four bays. The point is flanked by two bays, the windows of which, as on the north façade, have alternating segmented and pointed pediments at first-floor level. The bows cover two staircase levels leading to a colonnaded loggia, next to Pettengill Hall. Lane Hall was constructed at a totaled cost of $630,000 ($4.8 million in 2016 U.S. dollars.)

See also

• History of Bates College
• List of Bates College people

Further reading

• Alfred, Williams Anthony. Bates College and Its Background. (1936) Online Deposit.
• Stuan, Thomas. The Architecture of Bates College. (2006)
• Chase, Harry. Bates College was named after Mansfield Man. (1878)
• Bates College Archives. Bates College Catalog. (1956–2017). 2017 Catalog.
• Bates College Archives. Maine State Seminary Records. Online Deposit.
• Bates College Archives. Bates College Oral History Project. permanent dead link]Online Deposit.
• Clark, Charles E. Bates Through the Years: an Illustrated History. (2005)
• Smith, Dana. Bates College – U. S. Navy V-12 Program Collection. (1943) Online Deposit.
• Eaton, Mabel. General Catalogue of Bates College and Cobb Divinity School. (1930)
• Larson, Timothy. Faith by Their Works: The Progressive Tradition at Bates College. (2005)
• Calhoun, Charles C. A Small College in Maine. p. 163. (1993)
• Johnnett, R. F. Bates Student: A Monthly Magazine. (1878)
• Phillips, F. Charles Bates College in Maine: Enduring Strength and Scholarship. Issue 245. (1952)
• Dormin J. Ettrude, Edith M. Phelps, Julia Emily Johnsen. French Occupation of the Ruhr: Bates College Versus Oxford Union Society of Oxford College. (1923)
• The Bates Student. The Voice of Bates College. (1873–2017)
• Emeline Cheney; Burlingame, Aldrich. The story of the life and work of Oren Burbank Cheney, founder and first president of Bates College. (1907) Online Version.