Ewell Hall
| Ewell Hall | |
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Ewell Hall, 2024 | |
Interactive map of the Ewell Hall area | |
| General information | |
| Location | 221 Jamestown Road |
| Coordinates | 37°16′13″N 76°42′36″W / 37.27028°N 76.71000°W |
| Year built | 1925–1926 |
| Groundbreaking | June 3, 1925 |
| Opened | November 27, 1926 |
| Renovated | 1954, 1957–1958, 1988 |
| Owner | College of William & Mary |
| Design and construction | |
| Architects | John Kevan Peebles, Finlay Forbes Ferguson (1925) |
| Architecture firm | C. L. Lewis & Company (1957–1958) |
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Ewell Hall is an academic building on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. The building was constructed in 1925–1926 on what is now Old Campus, across from Tucker Hall on the Sunken Garden. It was originally named Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall for Phi Beta Kappa, an honor society founded at the College of William & Mary and the oldest such society in the United States. John D. Rockefeller Jr. attended the hall's 1926 dedication; during this visit, W. A. R. Goodwin convinced Rockefeller to participate in a restoration program that became Colonial Williamsburg.
After a severe fire destroyed the auditorium portion of the building in 1953, a new Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall was opened in 1956. The building was renamed Ewell Hall for Benjamin Stoddert Ewell, a 19th-century president of the college, in 1957 and has hosted the music department the College of Arts & Sciences administrative offices.