Cornell University campus, Ithaca, New York. County/parish: Tompkins.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000576.
1 contributing building.
Justin Morrill Hall, known almost exclusively as Morrill Hall, is an academic building of Cornell University on its main campus in Ithaca, New York. As of 2009, it houses the university's Departments of Romance Studies, Russian Literature, and Linguistics. The building is named in honor of Justin Smith Morrill, who as Senator from Vermont was the primary proponent of the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act of 1862 which greatly assisted the founding of Cornell University. Morrill Hall was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316087