Bancroft Hall - Annapolis, MD
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N 38° 58.895 W 076° 28.991
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Bancroft Hall is one of the main buildings at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis.
Waymark Code: WMR07K
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 04/22/2016
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Taken from Wikipedia, "Bancroft Hall at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is the largest single dormitory in the world.[1][2][3] Bancroft Hall, named after former U.S. Secretary of the Navy, and famous historian/author George Bancroft, is home for the entire brigade of 4,000 midshipmen,[1][2] and contains some 1,700 rooms, 4.8 miles (7.7 km) of corridors,[4] and 33 acres (13 ha) of floor space. All the basic facilities that midshipmen need for daily living are found in the hall.[5] It is referred to as "Mother B" or "The Hall" by Midshipmen.
Bancroft Hall was designed in the Beaux-Arts or French Second Empire style of architecture with its mansard roof and dormer windows by architect Ernest Flagg and its central rotunda and first two wings were built in 1901–06. Over the intervening years it has been expanded to encompass eight wings of five stories ("decks") each numbered 0-4. The original two wings are now the 3rd and 4th wings; the next pair, added in the 1920s, are now the 5th and 6th wings; a pair added in the late 1930s became the 1st and 2nd wings; and a final pair were added in the 1960s as the 7th and 8th wings."
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