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Slocum Hall

Paddock Avenue

In 1909, Slocum Hall was added to the campus of the Intermountain Institute, it was built for $30,000 and served as a boy’s dormitory. The building also included a swimming pool, Headmaster’s apartment, library, reading rooms, classrooms, office space, and living quarters for staff of the Intermountain Institute.

Eventually a Carnegie Library was added in 1919 to serve both the institute and the town of Weiser.

The hip-and-ridge roof of the one-story concrete structure is more steeply pitched than are those of the larger buildings. There are two shingled hip-and-ridge dormers in front and back and one at each end, and two pairs of multi-light windows between flat cast lintels and sills on either side of the entrance. The entrance is double-doored, approached by a flight of steps and fronted by a deep gabled portico with plain cast columns.

When the library was completed, three evergreen trees were planted in front of the building in honor of three institute students who were killed in action during World War I.

From SlocomHall.org

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Used by the Western Heavy Equipment School for Offices

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In 1967, when the high school moved into its present structure across Paddock Avenue and slightly to the South, the Institute was vacated, with the exception of Slocum Hall, which until recently contained a heavy equipment school.

Slocum Hall, was named after Jane Slocum, one of the three founders of the Institute and a distant relative of Mrs. Russell Sage, who declined to have the building named after herself, although her $60,000 gift to the school made the construction of the dormitory possible. The basement originally contained a swimming pool; the Institute’s library and reading room were located on its first floor until 1919 when the Carnegie Library was completed.

Like all the other major buildings, Slocum Hall is constructed of reinforced, scored cast concrete. It is three stories tall on a high basement. The window heads, three tiers on either side of the entrance, are cast to resemble key stoned flat arches. The roof is hipped with a laterally-running ridge and shingled hipped dormers: two facing forward, two at the rear, and one at either end. The rectangular main block has two ells. A two-story one at the south end is slightly inset to produce intersections which are filled by screened porches and approached by separate entrances.

A shallow main entry ell is centered on the façade and entered through a small, one-story gabled portico. The columns of the portico are fluted cast concrete, with metal capitals in the Corinthian order.

The porch is approached by a flight of steps with curving cast bannisters. A large eyebrow dormer, now filled, is centered in the roof above the entry.

From SlocomHall.org

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