Bond Hall (University of Notre Dame)
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Bond Hall, home of the School of Architecture
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| Former names | Lemonnier Library | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Used as the home of the school of architecture | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type | Academic | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Architectural style | Neoclassical Architecture | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Town or city | Notre Dame, Indiana | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current tenants | University of Notre Dame | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Construction started | 1917 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Completed | 1917 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Renovated | 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Congregation of the Holy Cross | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Other dimensions | 70,021 square feet | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Architect | Edward Lippincott Tilton | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bond Hall
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| Location | Notre Dame, Indiana |
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| Coordinates | 41°42′8.2764″N 86°14′17.4516″W / 41.702299000°N 86.238181000°WCoordinates: 41°42′8.2764″N 86°14′17.4516″W / 41.702299000°N 86.238181000°W |
| Built | 1917 |
| Architect | Edward Tilton |
| Architectural style | Log cabin |
| Part of | University of Notre Dame: Main and North Quadrangles (#78000053) |
| Added to NRHP | May 23, 1978 |
Bond Hall is a building on the campus of the University of Notre Dame which currently hosts the Notre Dame School of Architecture. It was originally built in 1917 as the Lemmonier Library. The architect was Edward Lippincott Tilton, a neoclassical architect who specialized in libraries. Its front steps are famous as the location of the Notre Dame Marching Band performances before the football games.
The current Bond Hall was built as Lemmonier Library in 1917 for $200,000 to replace the University's first library which was hosted on the third four in the east wing of the Main Building. The location of the new library, in the middle of the University farms, was also intended to make it less vulnerable to fire. Architect Edward Tilton of New York designed the two-story, Beaux Arts Classical structure, which was made from Indiana limestone. Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, D.D. blessed and dedicated the new library building on Sunday the 10th of June 1917, during the University's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The building was named for Rev. Auguste Lemonnier, C.S.C. (1839-1874), the fourth president of Notre Dame from 1872 to 1874. Fr Lemonnier was the creator of Notre Dame’s first central circulating library in 1873. The great fire of 1879 destroyed all but 500 of the library’s 10,000 books. Following that disaster, the library’s collection grew to about 100,000 volumes when the move to the new Lemonnier Library was completed in 1917.
It served as library until 18 September 1963, when the Memorial Library (now Hesburgh Library was finished and all the books were transferred into it.
The old now vacant Lemmonier Library was give to the department of Architecture. The then head of the Architecture school, Frank Montana, designed plans to renovate the interiors to fit the new needs of the Architecture school. The original limestone exterior with Ionic detailing on the east side was preserved and restored. A 10,000 s.f. addition was also added to the west elevation. The interior was reconfigured to serve its new functions as architecture building and to correspond with its original classical character. The main challenge during the renovation was the removal of the library stacks, which had a structural function in the building. The main lobby became an exhibit hall, flanked on the north by the Architecture Library and on the south by a new lecture hall. The basement contained a darkroom and classrooms, and the mezzanine and second floor were converted into classroom space.The renovation itself was a learning experience for the architectural students themselves. Upon competition of the renovation, the new Architecture Hall hosted its first classes on 9 November 1964, while finishing touches were still being added. The formal dedication occurred on 1 May 1965, presided by Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, the University president, and Pietro Belluschi, dean of the School of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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