Trinity College Long Walk
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The Trinity College Long Walk is a group of buildings that form the core of Trinity College's campus. This structure consists mainly of three buildings: Seabury Hall, Northam Towers, and Jarvis Hall.
There are two markers on the long walk commemorating presidential visits. The first one commemorates a 1954 by visit by President Dwight D. Eisenhower is noted in a Greek inscription within a triangular planting and is located in front of Downes Memorial Clock Tower. The second marker, commemorating the 1918 visit of President Theodore Roosevelt, is midway down the Long Walk and adjacent to the Fuller Arch and the Wall of Honor. The Latin inscription is embedded in the sidewalk in front of Northam Towers. Tradition has it that any student who walk on the plaque will not graduate from Trinity.
In 2008 the long walk underwent a $32.7 million dollar renovation. The long walk is the only example of Burges's work in American and is considered to be the best example anywhere of Victorian Gothic collegiate architecture.
, who was the second American Episcopal bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut and eighth in succession of bishops in the Episcopal Church. Jarvis is used for student housing and contains rooms are made up of six and eight person suites that consist of single and double rooms. Each suit has two or three bathrooms and a large common room. It is rumored that the doubles were originally designed for students while the singles across the hallway were intended for their servants. In actuality, the single rooms were single bedrooms, which opened into living areas, which are currently the doubles and the hallway, and six rooms retain this layout. As of the 2008 school year, the massive Long Walk Reconstruction project has been completed, and the dorms are built in a classic style. The basement of Jarvis contains student meeting and study rooms.
was founded in a room within Northam Towers. Under the Fuller archway is the Trinity College Wall of Honor, which lists important benefactors of the school.
History
The buildings were the first group of buildings constructed on Trinity's Gallows Hill Campus after the College's move in the 1870s from its downtown campus which is currently the site of the State Capital. "In an ambitious gesture, then President Abner Jackson chose William Burges, one of England's leading architects, to design the new buildings. Burges never traveled to the United States, and Francis Hatch Kimball served as the local architect. The Long Walk was executed in the so-called High Victorian Gothic style, popular in England and the United States in the second half of the 19th century. The Long Walk set the pace for the appearance of the campus's future buildings. Burges had wanted the buildings to be arranged in quadrangular fashion, but his early, grandiose plans were drastically cut back to form a long bar-like range, whose bold silhouette dominates the central green space of the campus known as The Quad."There are two markers on the long walk commemorating presidential visits. The first one commemorates a 1954 by visit by President Dwight D. Eisenhower is noted in a Greek inscription within a triangular planting and is located in front of Downes Memorial Clock Tower. The second marker, commemorating the 1918 visit of President Theodore Roosevelt, is midway down the Long Walk and adjacent to the Fuller Arch and the Wall of Honor. The Latin inscription is embedded in the sidewalk in front of Northam Towers. Tradition has it that any student who walk on the plaque will not graduate from Trinity.
In 2008 the long walk underwent a $32.7 million dollar renovation. The long walk is the only example of Burges's work in American and is considered to be the best example anywhere of Victorian Gothic collegiate architecture.
Seabury Hall
Built in 1878, this section of the Long Walk contains seminar rooms, class rooms and professor's offices. Originally, Seabury contained the Trinity's chapel. This room has since been renovated into a lecture room, maintaining the pews for student seating.Jarvis Hall
Built in 1878, Jarvis Hall and is named after Abraham JarvisAbraham Jarvis
Abraham Jarvis was the second American Episcopal bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut and eighth in succession of bishops in the Episcopal Church. He was a high churchman and a loyalist to the crown....
, who was the second American Episcopal bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut and eighth in succession of bishops in the Episcopal Church. Jarvis is used for student housing and contains rooms are made up of six and eight person suites that consist of single and double rooms. Each suit has two or three bathrooms and a large common room. It is rumored that the doubles were originally designed for students while the singles across the hallway were intended for their servants. In actuality, the single rooms were single bedrooms, which opened into living areas, which are currently the doubles and the hallway, and six rooms retain this layout. As of the 2008 school year, the massive Long Walk Reconstruction project has been completed, and the dorms are built in a classic style. The basement of Jarvis contains student meeting and study rooms.
Northram Tower
This central tower on the Long Walk, with its distinctive Fuller archway. Northram was built after Seabury and Jarvis and was meant to connect to two buildings. connects Jarvis and Seabury Halls. It contains upperclassman housing in the form of one and two room doubles. The National Fraternity of Alpha Chi RhoAlpha Chi Rho
Alpha Chi Rho is a men's collegiate fraternity founded on June 4, 1895 at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut by the Reverend Paul Ziegler, his son Carl Ziegler, and Carl's friends William Rouse, Herbert T. Sherriff and William A.D. Eardeley. It is a charter member of the North-American...
was founded in a room within Northam Towers. Under the Fuller archway is the Trinity College Wall of Honor, which lists important benefactors of the school.