Geology Hall, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Geology Hall (also Geological Hall) is a historic building on the Queens Campus of Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was built from April 1871 to June 1872 to house various science classes and the Rutgers Geology Museum. The museum was established in 1872 by George Hammell Cook, Rutgers' then professor of geology, with a collection of specimens whose assembly began in the 1830s under Cook's predecessor, Lewis Caleb Beck. As classes and offices moved out of the hall, the museum expanded until it occupied the entire hall by the mid-20th century. In 1973, the hall was added to the New Jersey and National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) with Old Queens, President's House, Van Nest Hall, Daniel S. Schanck Observatory, the Kirkpatrick Chapel, and Winants Hall as part of the Old Queens Campus historic district.

Geology Hall
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
Geology Hall in 2020
LocationRutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Coordinates40°29′55″N 74°26′47.4″W
Websitegeologymuseum.rutgers.edu
Part ofQueens Campus, Rutgers University (ID73001113)
NJRHP No.1881
Significant dates
Designated CPJuly 2, 1973
Designated NJRHPJanuary 29, 1973

The hall was designed and built by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh in stone in a style its NRHP nomination form describes as "straightforward and [employing] both Gothic elements and classical forms."

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