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Roble Hall () is a dormitory at Stanford University. It was built in 1917 to house women students. It is the oldest dormitory at
/ref> It is three stories high and is built in the shape of an H, with A, B, and Center wings, along with a semi-attached C wing which was added later. Built as a women's dormitory, and later used exclusively for freshmen women, it was converted to a co-ed residence in 1968. Now housing approximately 310 students, it is the largest dormitory at Stanford housing all four classes. About half the residents are freshmen and half sophomores, juniors, and seniors. The residence underwent an extensive seismic retrofit in 1987-1988, reopening in September 1989, just weeks before the Roble Hall (Sequoia Hall) Stanford University: report, 1996
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Roble Hall () is a dormitory at Stanford University. It was built in 1917 to house women students. It is the oldest dormitory at Stanford
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
that is still in use as a dormitory. It takes its name from the Spanish
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word for oak tree, although its pronunciation has been anglicized from “robe-leh” to “robe-lee”.
History
Roble Hall was designed by architectGeorge Kelham
George William Kelham (1871–1936) was an American architect, he was most active in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Biography
Born in Manchester, Massachusetts, Kelham was educated at Harvard University and graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Art ...
, who also designed the old San Francisco Public Library in 1917 (now housing the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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). It was considered an architectural jewel of the Asian Art Museum website. ...
Beaux-Arts architecture
Beaux-Arts architecture ( , ) was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century. It drew upon the principles of French neoclassicism, but also incorporat ...
movement.Roble Hall website/ref> It is three stories high and is built in the shape of an H, with A, B, and Center wings, along with a semi-attached C wing which was added later. Built as a women's dormitory, and later used exclusively for freshmen women, it was converted to a co-ed residence in 1968. Now housing approximately 310 students, it is the largest dormitory at Stanford housing all four classes. About half the residents are freshmen and half sophomores, juniors, and seniors. The residence underwent an extensive seismic retrofit in 1987-1988, reopening in September 1989, just weeks before the
Loma Prieta earthquake
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on California's Central Coast on October 17 at local time. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, approximately northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of ...
, which it survived without damage. Additional retrofitting
Retrofitting is the addition of new technology or features to older systems. Retrofits can happen for a number of reasons, for example with big capital expenditures like naval vessels, military equipment or manufacturing plants, businesses or go ...
was performed during the summers of 2006 and 2007.
The original residence for Stanford women was a different building, also named Roble Hall. It was built in haste in 1891 to house the 80 women of the first Stanford undergraduate class. Designed by concrete pioneer Ernest L. Ransome
Ernest Leslie Ransome (1844–1917) was an English-born engineer, architect, and early innovator in reinforced concrete building techniques. Ransome devised the most sophisticated concrete structures in the United States at the time.
Ernest wa ...
, it survived the 1906 earthquake but was replaced as the women's dormitory by the current Roble Hall in 1918. The original Roble was renamed Sequoia Hall
Sequoia Hall is the home of the Statistics Department on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California.
History
In 1891, the original building opened as Roble Hall, a three-story women's dormitory. Roble Hall housed the first women ...
, used as a men’s dormitory until 1957, and demolished in 1996 to make room for the Science and Engineering Quad./ref>
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