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词条 Healy Hall
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  1. History

  2. Architecture

  3. Clock hands

  4. Image gallery

  5. See also

  6. References

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| partof = Georgetown Historic District
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| designated_nrhp_type2 = May 28, 1967
| image = Healy Hall at Georgetown University.jpg
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| location = Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
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| area =
| built = 1877–1879
| architect = Smithmeyer and Pelz
| architecture = Gothic Revival and Romanesque
| designated_nrhp_type = December 23, 1987[1]
| added = May 25, 1971
| refnum = 71001003
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Healy Hall is a National Historic Landmark and the flagship building of the main campus of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Constructed between 1877–1879, the hall was designed by Paul J. Pelz and John L. Smithmeyer, prominent architects who also built the Library of Congress. The structure was named after Patrick Francis Healy, who was the President of Georgetown University at the time.

Healy Hall serves as the main administrative and reception venue of Georgetown, with some portions still being used as classrooms. The building includes Riggs Library, one of the few extant cast iron libraries in the nation, as well as the elaborate Gaston Hall.

History

The building was built during the presidency of Patrick Francis Healy after whom it is named.

The construction of the building, from 1877 to 1879, dramatically increased the amount of classroom and living space—at the time, it was also used as a dormitory—of what was then a small liberal arts college. Prior to its construction, Old North housed most of the college's classrooms, dormitories, and other facilities.[2] The construction also left the university deeply in debt and in possession for years of an enormous pile of dirt as a result of the excavation, with no funds to remove it. As a result of the debts, the Gaston Hall auditorium could not be completed until 1909.

The building was listed on DC Inventory of Historic Sites in 1964,[3] on the National Register of Historic Places on May 25, 1971, and as a National Historic Landmark on December 23, 1987. In addition, it is a contributing property of the Georgetown Historic District, which was listed as a National Historic Landmark District on May 28, 1967.[4][5]

The building was brought to national attention in 1973 when it acted as a prominent background for the film The Exorcist. In 1990 the interior hall and also the second story of the building featured in The Exorcist III.

Architecture

Built in a Neo-Medieval style that combines elements of Romanesque, Early Gothic, Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, the building contains the Office of the President; Georgetown's Department of Classics; the Kennedy Institute of Ethics; and the [//bioethics.georgetown.edu Bioethics Research Library].

Notable rooms in Healy include Riggs Library, one of the few extant cast iron libraries in the nation; the Philodemic Room, the meeting room for the Philodemic Society, one of the oldest collegiate debating clubs in the nation; the grand Hall of Cardinals; the historic Constitution Room; and the Carroll Parlor, which houses several notable pieces from the university's art collection.

Perhaps the grandest space in the building is Gaston Hall, Georgetown's "Jewel in the Crown",[7] the 750-seat auditorium which has played host to multitudes of world leaders. Gaston Hall, located on the third and fourth floors and named for Georgetown's first student, William Gaston, is decorated with the coats of arms of the Jesuit colleges and universities and rich allegorical scenes painted by notable Jesuit artist Brother Francis C. Schroen. Schroen also created the intricate paintings found in the Carroll Parlor and on the ceiling of the Bioethics Reference Center's Hirst Reading Room.

Healy Hall rises to a height of {{Convert|200|ft|m}}, making it the tied with 700 Eleventh Street as the sixth tallest building in Washington, D.C.[8]

Clock hands

The hands of the Healy Clock Tower have been subjected to many thefts, as per the university tradition.[9] Historically, students would steal the hands and mail them to the person they wished to visit the campus, most notably sent to the Vatican, where they were blessed by Pope John Paul II and then returned to the university.[10][11] One such incident caused significant damage to the clock mechanism, however, and security has been increased as a result in recent years, decreasing the incidence of the theft.[12] These measures have not prevented students from successfully obtaining the hands however, as they are captured every five to six years, such as in the fall of 2005 by Drew Hamblen (SFS ’07) and Wyatt Gjullin (COL ’09).[13] The hands were stolen once again during the evening between April 29 and April 30, 2012, and supposedly sent to Barack Obama but the hands ended up lost in the mail.[14] More recently, the clock hands were stolen during the evening between December 9th and December 10th, 2014,[15] and again sometime during the night of April 30, 2017.[16]

Dean M. Carignan (SFS '91) has written of his stealing the clock hands during his freshman year. On April 1, 1988, Carignan and a fellow student accessed the clock through "a metal plate set into the roof at the base of the clocktower." Eventually tracked down by campus security, Carignan and his Georgetown accomplice were sentenced by a university discipline panel to "an $800 fine, a 40-hour work sanction, [and] a year of probation."[17]

The writer Joseph Bottum has also published an account of stealing the clock hands. In the Fall of 1977, Bottum joined Stan DeTurris, Dave Barry, and Pat Conway (all freshmen in the class of ’81) to climb through a trap door on the north peak of Healy, above Gaston Hall, and steal the hands from the east face of the clock, returning them at the end of the school year to the university president, Fr. Timothy Healy, S.J. The next year, Bottum writes, he and DeTurris found another way into the attics of Healy Hall, crawling through the ducts above Riggs Library to steal the minute hands from both the east and west clock faces.[18]

Image gallery

See also

{{Portal|Architecture|Washington, D.C.}}
  • List of tallest buildings in Washington, D.C.

References

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1. ^Listing {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606091349/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1171&ResourceType=Building |date=2011-06-06 }} at the National Park Service
2. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehoya.com/listening-to-architecture-what-georgetown-university-says-today/|title=Listening to Architecture: What Georgetown University Says Today|last=Toporoff|first=Andrew|date=February 8, 2012|work=The Hoya|access-date=July 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012142249/http://www.thehoya.com/listening-to-architecture-what-georgetown-university-says-today/|archive-date=October 12, 2016|dead-url=no}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/publication/attachments/Inventory%202009%200%20Alpha%20Version%2003%2011.pdf|title=District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites: Alphabetical Version|last=|first=|date=30 September 2009|website=planning.dc.gov|publisher=Government of the District of Columbia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731113010/https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/publication/attachments/Inventory%202009%200%20Alpha%20Version%2003%2011.pdf|archive-date=31 July 2017|dead-url=no|access-date=24 January 2018}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/67000025|title=Asset Detail: Georgetown Historic District|last=|first=|date=|website=National Park Service|access-date=24 January 2018}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/publication/attachments/Georgetown_Historic_District_Map.pdf|title=Georgetown Historic District|last=|first=|date=February 13, 2008|website=planning.dc.gov|publisher=Government of the District of Columbia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207154402/https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/publication/attachments/Georgetown_Historic_District_Map.pdf|archive-date=7 February 2017|dead-url=no|access-date=24 January 2018}}
6. ^Andrew Wallender Carroll Parlor Opens for Senior Study, The Hoya, 31 March 2015
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/kerbs/schroen_06/images/gastonmagazine.jpg|title=Georgetown's Jewel in the Crown|author=|date=|website=georgetown.edu|accessdate=25 April 2018|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205120801/http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/kerbs/schroen_06/images/gastonmagazine.jpg|archivedate=5 February 2012|df=}}
8. ^{{cite book |title=AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington |edition=Third |pages=223–4 |first=Christopher |last=Weeks |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore |year=1994}}
9. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.thehoya.com/node/4955 |first=Robert |last=Heberle |work=The Hoya |title=Healy Clock Hands Stolen Over Weekend |date=2005-09-27 |accessdate=2007-03-28 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20070812212625/http://www.thehoya.com/node/4955 |archivedate=2007-08-12 |df= }}
10. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.thehoya.com/node/6143 |work=The Hoya |title=Pilfering A GU Landmark |first=Robert |last=Heberle |date=2005-10-07 |accessdate=2007-03-28 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20070812212625/http://www.thehoya.com/node/6143 |archivedate=2007-08-12 |df= }}
11. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.thehoya.com/node/6647 |work=The Hoya |title=Healy Duo Receives One Year Probation |first=Patrick |last=Sheridan |date=2006-01-31 |accessdate=2007-03-28 }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
12. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.thehoya.com/node/4316 |work=The Hoya |title=Healy Clock Theft Has Roots in GU History |first=Chrissy A. |last=Balz |date=2005-11-08 |accessdate=2007-03-28 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205010757/http://www.thehoya.com/node/4316 |archivedate=2008-12-05 |df= }}
13. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.thehoya.com/students-confess-in-clock-case-1.1881484#.TrhN9OjdKAU |work=The Hoya |title=Students Confess In Clock Case |first=Robert |last=Heberle |date=2005-10-14 |accessdate=2007-03-28 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328041812/http://www.thehoya.com/students-confess-in-clock-case-1.1881484#.TrhN9OjdKAU |archivedate=2012-03-28 |df= }}
14. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.thehoya.com/clock-hands-tradition-rekindled/ |work=The Hoya |title=Clock Hands Tradition Rekindled |first=Emma |last=Hinchliffe |date=2012-05-17 |accessdate=2014-06-25 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141114015823/http://www.thehoya.com/clock-hands-tradition-rekindled/ |archivedate=2014-11-14 |df= }}
15. ^{{cite web|url=http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2014/12/10/gupd-confirms-the-healy-clock-hands-were-stolen/|title=GUPD confirms the Healy clock hands were stolen|author=|date=10 December 2014|website=georgetownvoice.com|accessdate=25 April 2018|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221224205/http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2014/12/10/gupd-confirms-the-healy-clock-hands-were-stolen/ |archivedate=21 December 2014|df=}}
16. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.thehoya.com/healy-tower-clock-hands-stolen/ |work=The Hoya |title=Suspects Identified in Healy Tower Clock Hands Theft |first=Jeff |last=Cirillo |date=2017-05-01 |accessdate=2017-05-07 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508230653/http://www.thehoya.com/healy-tower-clock-hands-stolen/ |archivedate=2017-05-08 |df= }}
17. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.crisismagazine.com/1992/the-idler-tempus-fugit |work=Crisis magazine |title=The Idler: Tempus Fugit |first=Dean M. |last=Carignan |date=1992-02-01 |accessdate=2017-03-31 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401060016/http://www.crisismagazine.com/1992/the-idler-tempus-fugit |archivedate=2017-04-01 |df= }}
18. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/time-bandits/article/2007447 |work=Weekly Standard |title=Time Bandits |first=Joseph |last=Bottum |date=2017-04-10 |accessdate=2017-03-31 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331132731/http://www.weeklystandard.com/time-bandits/article/2007447 |archivedate=2017-03-31 |df= }}
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