Andrews Hall

Andrews Hall opened for classes in September of 1928 and is still used for classes today. The project cost an estimated $300,000. The contractor was Ernest Rokahr and Sons, and the architect was Davis & Wilson. The building was named after E. Benjamin Andrews, the Chancellor of UNL from 1900 to 1908. when Andrews Hall first opened it housed the College of Dentistry, Foreign Languages, and English. The building contains three floors with the third floor originally containing a large clinic with 42 dentistry chairs, surgical rooms, the dental library, and various staff offices. The rest of the building contained additional offices and classrooms. The building was built in the style of early buildings by Ellery Davis similar to that of Morrill Hall’s design. Andrews is made of red pressed brick with a Bedford Limestone trim. The building was developed in the 1920s in the area known as the Northeast quadrant.

 

The architect Ellery L Davis (1887-1956) was one of the most prominent architects in early Lincoln. Davis designed several buildings in both the public and private sector including multiple buildings for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

 

The namesake of Andrews Hall is Dr E Benjamin Andrews (1844-1917) who was the Chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1900 to 1908. Andrews greatly increased academic freedom and reorganized the academic structure at UNL. Andrews was responsible for a significant amount of development and expansion on the UNL campus, in addition to UNL’s transition to a modern research Institution.