{"nrhp_refnum":"08000871","name":"Clark Hall, University of Virginia","other_names":["Clark Memorial Hall","U. of Virginia School of Law","#002-5149"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"291 McCormick Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Charlottesville","county":"Albemarle County","state":"VA","lat":38.033113429000025,"lon":-78.50788481199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-09-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Clark Hall is a brick Classical Revival academic building at 291 McCormick Road on the University of Virginia grounds in Charlottesville, completed in 1932 to house the School of Law.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant under Criterion A for its link to the university's architectural planning under President Edwin Alderman and the Architectural Commission, and to the growth of the School of Law from 1826 to 1974. Under Criterion C it is cited as the commission's most sophisticated work. Its Memorial Hall, with murals by Allyn Cox, is also noted for high artistic quality.","narrative":"Clark Hall is a red-brick Classical Revival building on McCormick Road at the University of Virginia, finished in 1932 as the home of the School of Law. Its north front has a recessed colonnade of six Corinthian columns beneath a tall marble parapet and a pyramidal slate roof, flanked by arcaded hyphens and end wings in a Palladian arrangement. Inside, Memorial Hall is a skylit double-cube space with murals by Allyn Cox, painted 1930-34, showing Roman and Mosaic law. The university's Architectural Commission designed the building, and attorney William Andrews Clark, Jr., a 1899 graduate, paid for it in memory of his first wife. It was listed because it reflects the university's planned architectural growth and the history of its law school, and because of its design quality and murals. The law school left in 1974, and the building now houses environmental sciences, with a 2000-2003 addition at the rear.","period_of_significance":"1930-1958","architect_builder":"University of Virginia's Architectural Commission","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Now used by the Department of Environmental Sciences; the exterior front and Memorial Hall remain largely intact, while many other interior spaces were remodeled from 1974 and a four-story addition was built in 2000-2003.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.284114-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/9/6794/41679409/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/08000871.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000871/b2c94183b7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000871/b2c94183b7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Vtn5n","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UVA_Clark_Hall.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Vtn5n</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UVA_Clark_Hall.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679409","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Hall_(University_of_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5127252"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/albemarle-county/clark-hall-university-of-virginia-08000871/"}