Chaplin Hall stands on the Parade at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. It began as a Carnegie library. Andrew Carnegie gave $25,000 in 1905, and the building was dedicated in 1908 as Carnegie Hall. Kerby, Petit & Green of New York designed it in the Georgian Revival style, with revisions by F. A. Walker of Montpelier.
The upper floors held the library and the lower floors held the electrical engineering department. In 1941 engineering moved out and the library took the whole building. A renovation in 1952 and 1953, funded by trustee Henry Prescott Chaplin, gave the hall his name. A rear addition in 1961 and 1962 doubled its size.
The library moved out in 1991. A $2 million renovation in 1993 converted the hall for the School of Architecture and Art, which moved in that fall, helped by a student design competition. It is the main exception to the uniform red brick buildings around the Parade.
This building has no Wikipedia article. Facts come from New England Carnegies: Chaplin Hall, SAH Archipedia: The Parade, Norwich University, Norwich University School of Architecture and Art.
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