Residence Administration
Building Name: Residence Administration Building
Other Names: Unknown
Civic Address: 20 Bailey Dr.
Sod Turning: Unknown
Cornerstone Laying: Unknown
Opened for Use: 1965
Official Opening: Unknown
Architect: Unknown
Named for: It's function as the offices of Residence Administration
Renovations/changes/additions: Unknown
Notes: According to legend, the Residence Administration Building's clock tower was built accidentally; at the design stage, someone allegedly went into the architect's room to use the telephone, and while there sketched a clock onto the plans for the building and thus the clock tower was built.
The plans for the Residence Administration Building required that the Neville Homestead, a nineteenth century farmhouse which had existed beside the UNB campus since 1876, be moved from its original spot and re-situated further east on the campus.
Source(s):
- UA Case 123; Section 1.
- Montague, Susan. A Pictorial History of the University of New Brunswick. University of New Brunswick, 1992, p. 166.
- Leroux, John. Building A University: The Architecture of UNB.Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 2010, p. 83.
- The Brunswickan, 1965, vol. 98, no. 2, p. 5.
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