Lane Hall

{{Short description|College building in Maine, US}} {{about|the building on the campus of Bates College|the Virginia Tech building|Campus of Virginia Tech}}{{Multiple issues|{{Notability|date=March 2026}} {{Original research|date=March 2026}} {{Overly detailed|details=|date=March 2026}}|section=}}{{Infobox Historic building |name=Lane Hall |image=Lane Hall2.jpg |image_size = 300px |caption=The northern facade with a columned entrance, facing Hathorn Hall and the Historic Quad |pushpin_map = |map_caption= |coordinates = |architect= |floor_area= |client= |engineer= |construction_start_date = 1963 |completion_date =1964 |structural_system= |architectural_style =Neoclassical, Palladian |size=29,000 square feet |status=Active and operational |location=Lewiston, Maine, U.S. |groundbreaking_date= |floor_count=4 |cost=$4.8 million in 2016 USD |owner=Bates College |alternate_names=metonymically as the academic administration of Bates College }}'''Lane Hall''' is a later 20th-century neoclassical building serving as the principal workplace and headquarters of the central administration of Bates College, located at 2 Andrews Road in Lewiston, Maine.<ref name=":03" /> It has been the principle administrative headquarters of every Bates president since Thomas Hedley Reynolds in 1964. Lane Hall was named after George Lane Jr., who served as treasurer of the college and secretary of the corporation.<ref name=":03">{{Cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/tour/administrative-buildings/lane-hall/|title=Lane Hall – Campus Tour – Bates College|website=www.bates.edu|access-date=2016-05-18|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616143635/http://www.bates.edu/tour/administrative-buildings/lane-hall/|archive-date=2016-06-16}}</ref> Lane overlooks the Historic Quadrangle of the college and protrudes from Lake Andrews.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bates.edu/tour/|title=Campus Tour - Bates College|website=www.bates.edu|access-date=2016-05-18|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529140513/http://www.bates.edu/tour/|archive-date=2016-05-29}}</ref>

== History == {{unreferenced section|date=May 2026}} The construction of the Lane Hall began with the laying of the cornerstone in 1963, although there was no formal ceremony. The principal façade of the Lane Hall, from the north, is of four floors and eleven bays. The ground floor is hidden by a raised carriage ramp and parapet, thus the façade appears to be of three floors. The central three bays are behind a prostyle portico (this was a later addition to the hall, built in 1970) serving, thanks to the carriage ramp, as a porte cochere. The hall's southern façade is a combination of the Palladian and neoclassical styles of architecture. It is of three floors, all visible. The ground floor is rusticated in the Palladian fashion. At the center of the façade is a neoclassical projecting triangular point of four bays. The point is flanked by two bays, the windows of which, as on the north façade, have alternating segmented and pointed pediments at first-floor level. The bows cover two staircase levels leading to a colonnaded loggia, next to Pettengill Hall. Lane Hall was constructed at a totaled cost of $630,000 ($4.8 million in 2016 U.S. dollars.)

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