![]() The 3rd wing was built over the remains of the old Fort Severn. ![]() ![]() The original two wings (1906) are now the 3rd and 4th wings the next pair, added in 1917, are now the 1st and 2nd wings a pair added in 1939 became the 5th and 6th wings and a final pair were added in the 1961 as the 7th and 8th wings. Over the intervening years it has been expanded to encompass eight wings of five stories ("decks") each numbered 0–4. It is referred to as "Mother B" or "The Hall" by Midshipmen.īancroft Hall was designed in the Beaux-Arts style with its mansard roof and dormer windows by architect Ernest Flagg and its central rotunda and first two wings were built in 1901–06. All the basic facilities that midshipmen need for daily living are found in the hall. Secretary of the Navy, and famous historian/author George Bancroft, is home for the entire brigade of 4,000 midshipmen, and contains some 1,700 rooms, 4.8 miles (7.7 km) of corridors, and 33 acres (13 ha) of floor space. ![]() Bancroft Hall is located on the far right, the largest building on the campusīancroft Hall, at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is said to be the largest contiguous set of academic dormitories in the U.S. A map of the Naval Academy campus in 1924. ![]()
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