Milbank Hall
Milbank Hall, formerly the Milbank Agricultural Building is a 3 1/2-story brick academic building located at the corner of Campus Road and West Water Street at the northwestern edge of the campus of Tuskegee University.
The building was built in 1909 with funds donated by Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, who named it in honor of her father, Jeremiah Milbank. It was designed by Tuskegee graduate William Sidney Pittman, who had recently married Booker T. Washington's daughter Portia. It features a Jacobean-style roof line with limestone trim and a slate roof. An arched portico on the front of the building is topped with a crenellated roof.
The Milbank Agricultural Building housed the personal laboratory of George Washington Carver until the opening of the George Washington Carver Museum in 1941.
Milbank Hall was renovated in 1985 and still houses the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
References
- Weiss, Ellen (2012) "Milbank Hall" SAH Archipedia. Society of Architectural Historians - accessed May 8, 2023