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unusual facts about Risley Hall


Risley Hall

John Risley Hall at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada


Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

Its first student, William Henry Miller, dropped out, but later designed many iconic buildings on campus including Risley Hall, Uris Library and its adjoining McGraw Tower, the presidential mansion (today known as the A.D. White House), and Boardman Hall, the original home of the Law School.

Cornell West Campus

After Risley Hall was designed as a women's residence hall in 1911, work began on the construction of a men's residence hall complex on West Campus.

Teresa Hooley

Her much older half-brother was the financier Ernest Terah Hooley of Risley Hall with whom she maintained a civil if frosty relationship.


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