Goddard Residence Hall
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Building Name
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Goddard Residence Hall
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Description
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Goddard and Jones Residence Halls were designed on the same plans as King and Goodison Residence Halls. Once again, two dormitories formed a square around an enclosed central courtyard. The interiors of King and Goodison, however, were slightly different. The architectural team based room designs in part on the preferences shown by students who viewed sample plans of dorm rooms on display the winter semester before. Each suite of rooms held four students and included a private bath for each unit. Wood paneling decorated the halls. Goddard and Jones accommodated 1,200 women, enough to make the new payment program viable. On February 1, 1964, the University opened the Instructional Computing Center in Goddard Hall. By 1980, it also contained classrooms for Industrial Education. Goddard and Jones were both made honors dorms in the 1980s. As of fall 2005 Goddard Residence Hall was closed as a student residence hall. Jones and Goddard have both been demolished as of 2024, and is set to be replaced with green space.
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Namesake Biography
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Mary A. Goddard was born in Winnebago, Illinois, January 23, 1870. She attended the village school and for several years was a teacher in the schools at Winnebago and Harvard, Illinois. After a year of work in the Ann Arbor High School, she entered the University of Michigan and graduated in 1900. Goddard loved nature as a child. Following her graduation, she became a teacher of Botany at Michigan State Normal College. Goddard studied at the University of Chicago for one year, where she received her Master of Science. Miss Goddard continued teaching at M.S.N.C. until her retirement in 1939. Miss Goddard passed away January 18, 1941.
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Building Namesake
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Mary A. Goddard, Professor of Botany, 1900 - 1939
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Year Constructed
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1955
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Date Dedicated
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1955
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Building Functions
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Residence Hall
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Architect
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R.S. Gerganoff, Ypsilanti, MI
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Original Cost
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1,020,000
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Architectural Style
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WPA Moderne
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Square Footage
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72,724
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Rights
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This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the owner, Eastern Michigan University Archives (lib_archives@emich.edu).
