Healy
Hall
Washington,
D.C.
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The Main Gates
at Georgetown University open toward Healy Hall. Its clock tower,
which chimes every 15 minutes, can be seen and heard from much
of the surrounding area. Healy Hall was designed in the Flemish
Renaissance style by Smithmeyer and Pelz, the architects responsible
for the Library of Congress. In addition to housing University
offices and classrooms, Healy Hall contains Carroll Parlor, repository
for important examples of art from the Renaissance and Baroque
periods, and Riggs Library, one of the few remaining cast-iron
libraries in the nation. The building is on the National Register
of Historic Places.
Healy Hall is named after Rev. Patrick Healy, President of Georgetown
from 1873 to 1882. He was one of ten children of an Irish immigrant
and the mulatto slave he fell in love with on his cotton plantation
in Georgia. Patrick Healy was the first African-American to become
President of a university in the United States.
Text
© 2003 Terry White, Drawing © 2003 Bill Harrah.
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