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 Though it was not constructed until 20 years after the first college building had been erected, images of Trinity with three buildings appeared as early as 1824, including in a survey of [[hartford|Hartford]] done in 1824 and in a woodcut on the title page of a journal called the //Episcopal Watchman// from 1827.  Though it was not constructed until 20 years after the first college building had been erected, images of Trinity with three buildings appeared as early as 1824, including in a survey of [[hartford|Hartford]] done in 1824 and in a woodcut on the title page of a journal called the //Episcopal Watchman// from 1827. 
  
-Brownell Hall was possibly designed by Solomon Willard; a drawing of a nearly identical building holds his signature in the College archives. Brownell Hall was in exterior a replica of the [[jarvis_hall|"College,"]] and built in the ionic style in brownstone by Messrs. Campbell with woodwork by a Mr. Rowell.+Brownell Hall was likely designed by [[totten_silas|Silas Totten]], and drew inspiration from Willard's original drawings. ((Tolles, p. 140)) Brownell Hall was in exterior a replica of the [[jarvis_hall|"College,"]] and built in the ionic style in brownstone by Messrs. Campbell with woodwork by a Mr. Rowell.
  
-[{{:screenshot_160_.png?300 |The Brownell Hall cornerstone, mounted in Downes Clock Tower. Photo credit: Amanda Matava}}]+[{{:screenshot_160_.png?200 |The Brownell Hall cornerstone, mounted in Downes Clock Tower. Photo credit: Amanda Matava}}]
  
 //Within the structure were thirty-eight student rooms, a recitation hall, and an apartment to be occupied by a Professor and his family. Although similar in external appearance to Jarvis Hall, the new building's interior was notably different from Jarvis. An arrangement of rooms around "entries" - rather than the long halls of Jarvis - provided better light and also precluded the boisterous log-rolling contests which had caused so much trouble for the faculty committee on student discipline.// ((Weaver, p. 82)) //Within the structure were thirty-eight student rooms, a recitation hall, and an apartment to be occupied by a Professor and his family. Although similar in external appearance to Jarvis Hall, the new building's interior was notably different from Jarvis. An arrangement of rooms around "entries" - rather than the long halls of Jarvis - provided better light and also precluded the boisterous log-rolling contests which had caused so much trouble for the faculty committee on student discipline.// ((Weaver, p. 82))
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 +Architecture & Academe: College Buildings in New England before 1860 (2011) by Bryant F. Tolles, Jr., pp. 136-142. 
  
 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/4|History of Trinity College]] (1967) by Glenn Weaver, pp. 82, 180, 184. [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/4|History of Trinity College]] (1967) by Glenn Weaver, pp. 82, 180, 184.
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