Date of Construction: 1996-98
Architect/Designer: Allan Greenberg
Current Function: Center for Teaching Effectiveness; classroom building
Opened in 1998, Gore Hall is the first building constructed on the north mall since completion of Sharp Laboratory in 1962. Rather than the Post-Modern style that became so common in the 1990s, Gore Hall displays the older, Georgian Revival style that is modeled more closely after the historical examples that inspire it. The building is eleven bays wide and two-and-one-half stories tall with a recessed entrance and a hipped roof. A two-story, projecting, pedimented portico, supported by four enormous Doric columns, dominates the facade. When they were produced, these columns were the largest ones Depuis Memorials of Louisiana had yet manufactured. They are thirty-one feet tall, four feet in diameter at the base, and weigh approximately 24,000 pounds each. They were formed of reinforced concrete with hollow cores. Gore Hall incorporates other Georgian details such as a water table, stone quoins, a heavy cornice, and false chimneys. The interior features a dramatic marble lobby with an oculus window.
Gore Hall contains twenty-five classrooms that can hold twenty-five to eighty occupants each. The building is a gift of alumni Robert W. Gore and Sarah I. Gore, and of Genevieve W. Gore.
