Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA - People-Named Places on Waymarking.com

The Place

"Royce Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Originally designed by the Los Angeles firm of Allison & Allison (James Edward Allison, 1870-1955, and his brother David Clark Allison, 1881-1962) and completed in 1929, it is one of the four original buildings on UCLA's Westwood campus and has come to be the defining image of the university. The building is a lively brick and tile essay in the Lombard Romanesque style that once functioned as the main classroom facility of the young university and symbolized its academic and cultural aspirations. Today, the twin-towered front remains the best known UCLA landmark. The 1800-seat auditorium was designed for speech acoustics and not for music but by 1982, it emerged from successive remodelings as a regionally important concert hall and it is the main performing arts facility of the university."

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The Person

"Josiah Royce (November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher. Royce was born in Grass Valley, California, on November 20, 1855. He was the son of Josiah and Sarah Eleanor (Bayliss) Royce, whose families were recent English emigrants, and who sought their fortune in the westward movement of the American pioneers in 1849. He received the B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley (which moved from Oakland to Berkeley during his matriculation) in 1875 where he later accepted an instructorship teaching English composition, literature, and rhetoric. After some time in Germany, where he studied with Hermann Lotze, the new Johns Hopkins University awarded him in 1878 one of its first four doctorates, in philosophy. At Johns Hopkins he taught a course on the history of German thought, which was “one of his chief interests” because he was able to give consideration to the philosophy of history.[1] After four years at the University of California, Berkeley, he went to Harvard in 1882 as a sabbatical replacement for William James, who was at once Royce's friend and philosophical antagonist. Royce's position at Harvard was made permanent in 1884 and he remained there until his death, on September 14, 1916."

He was the only major American philosopher who spent a significant portion of his career studying and writing about the American West.

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Year it was dedicated: 1929 Location of Coordinates: Front Building Entrance Related Web address (if available): [Web Link] Type of place/structure you are waymarking: Building

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