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Shreve Hall

Named for Eleanor Burns Shreve and her husband Randolph Norris Shreve, former Purdue University faculty, Shreve was the first residence hall at Purdue designed to be co-educational, although Shreve was originally built for the purpose of adding a new Women’s hall to Purdue.


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Bibb Graves

Bob Jones University had a residence hall named for Graves until 2011, when it was renamed for H. A. Ironside.

Bill Emerson

The Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge, which crosses the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau, is named after him, as is Emerson Hall, the main assembly room in the House Page School in the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress and Emerson Hall, an upperclass residence hall at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, his alma mater.

Chester Middlebrook Pierce

The Harvard Foundation also commissioned a portrait of Pierce in his honor, which now hangs in the residence hall he lived in as an undergraduate at Harvard.

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.

Crazy Horse Memorial

The memorial is to be the centerpiece of an educational/cultural center, to include a satellite campus of the University of South Dakota, with a classroom building and residence hall, made possible by a US$2.5 million donation in 2007 from T. Denny Sanford, a Sioux Falls, South Dakota philanthropist.

Harry A. Ironside

In 2011, Bob Jones University renamed a residence hall that formerly honored Bibb Graves after Ironside.

Henry M. Hoyt

Hoyt has a residence hall in the South Halls section of the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University named after him.

J.W. Jones

A gas tank by the Wabash Railroad tracks behind Residence Hall explodes injuring around 20 and killing Roberta Steel on August 28, 1951