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Home > Departments > Facilities Planning & Design > Campus Info > Building Profiles > South Campus Building Profiles > Foster Hall

Foster Hall

Foster Hall

Facility:
Number:
Function:
Gross Square Feet:
Construction Cost:
Completed:
Architect:

FOSTER
0016
Academic
69,178
$918,000
June, 1921
McKim, Mead & White (1921)
Milstein, Wittek & Davis (1983 renovation)

OCCUPANTS 

Foster Hall Occupany Report  Adobe Reader Document (PDF)

FUNCTION 

Foster Hall houses non-clinical aspects of the School of Dentistry. The original 1921 building was extensively renovated in 1983.

NAMESAKE 

Orrin Elliott FosterOrrin Elliott Foster (1840-1928) donated $500,000 toward construction of this building. He was co-founder of the Foster-Milburn Company, a manufacturer of patent medicines. Foster Hall was the first building built by the university on the Main Street Campus.