Pound Hall – UGA 1906 (1917, Category 2). Pound Hall is listed as a contributing building in the Oglethorpe Avenue Historic District. The building was constructed in 1917 as an auditorium, but also includes classroom space. It was designed by A.F. Wysong of Princeton, West Virginia, and named for Jere.
J. Pound, former President of the State Normal School between 1912 and 1932. After the Normal School closed in 1932, the building remained in use as part of the Coordinate College of the University of Georgia. It was included in the purchase made in 1953 by the U.S. Navy. The Navy converted the building for use as a gymnasium, children’s nursery, and chapel. Recreational features— tennis courts, a baseball field, volleyball court, and handball courts—were added on the grounds of the building in circa 1970–1971. The building served as a temporary commissary between 1973 and 1974. In 1987, work began to expand the chapel.
As noted in the Historic Buildings Preservation Plan for the Navy Supply Corps School:
Pound Hall is a two-story yellow brick neo-Classical building with a T- shaped plan and a flat roof. The principal facade is centered around a recessed porch supported by two freestanding stone Ionic columns in antis and two brick Ionic half pilasters attached to the side walls of the recessed porch. The porch shelters three first-floor entrances, a central wood and glass double door with a bracketed pediment surmounted with an acroterion and two flanking wood and glass double doors. All of these entrances have four part wood transoms. The second floor elevation of the recessed porch has a pair of eight-pane windows in the center, flanked on each side by a single eight-pane window. The recessed porch is flanked on each side by a projecting bay with four over four windows on each story. This central unit is also flanked on each side by a section of recessed wall with two four over four windows on each floor. The primary facade is completed on each end by a three-bay projecting wall section with three square windows and a brick recessed panel on the first and second floors. Brick quoins punctuate these end bays, while a brick entablature, a dentiled cornice, and a brick parapet cap the facade.
Each side elevation of the building has a series of rectangular windows on each floor. Because of the presence of the chapel in the south wing, the south facade has stained glass windows on the first floor and four over four windows on the second floor. The south elevation also has an entrance to the chapel that is sheltered by a wood gabled porch. The north elevation has a wood and glass door on the second floor that is reached by a set of metal steps. Four window openings have also been enclosed on the first floor of the north elevation.
The building retains integrity and is assessed as Category 2.
