Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Craftsmen taking pains to restore historic Lincoln Hall — with some modern amenities.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
Matthew Tomaszewski, Associate Dean on the College of LAS, talks about changes in the basement, formerly a maze of graduate student offices pidgeoned among pipes and mechanical systems. Crews excavated the entire basement so that most of the mechanical systems could be put there, making it 3 to 5 feet deeper.
They used “micropiles,” brackets driven 30 to 50 feet into the ground, to support the building’s structure. They remained in place after the new foundation was poured.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
A refurbished medallion and plaster work on the wall of the theater.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
A worker takes down scaffolding in the theater.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
Artisans are almost finished restoring the elaborate scrollwork and other embellishments in the theater and the marble entryway known as Memorial Hall. The background is painted with historically accurate colors — fairly subdued beiges, greens and grays — that were found under layers of paint.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
Owls are a theme in the several large medallions on each side of the hall, which are clad in gleaming gold leaf, as are the rosettes in the coffered ceiling.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
In Memorial Hall several large medallions on each side of the hall, flanked by owls, are clad in gleaming gold leaf, as are the rosettes in the coffered ceiling.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
Original wall support behind plaster on the second floor.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
On the fourth floor — where the World Heritage Museum was once based before becoming the freestanding Spurlock Museum of World Cultures — a dark storage space has been transformed into a bright, open area for graduate student offices. The vaulted ceilings and skylights that run the length of the room flood it with light.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
The small rectangular windows on the fourth floor, set into niches resembling a museum display, are actually original, cut into the building’s facade just under the restored copper cornice.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
New offices on the fourth floor have “Smart” technology, a key feature of energy-efficiency improvements, which turns lights on when someone enters a room, and dims or brightens them as needed.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
A wall of windows in a conference room bring light into a hallway on the fourth floor.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
One of two three-story glass towers on either side of the theater entrance that overlook an interior courtyard. Their function is twofold: to create more gathering space for students and make them feel more connected to the green space outside.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
Don Thompson, Machesney Park, , of Excel Plaster, top, and Rob Floyd of Villa Grove, working for Bazan Painting, St. Louis, work in one of the stairways.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
Matthew Tomaszewski, Associate Dean on the College of LAS, talks about how seating was redirected in a classroom to give students a better view of the professor.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
Work being done in the glassed-in area.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
Off the courtyard will be a new cafe in what once was, college historians think, a smoking room for theater patrons. Stairs lead down to the arched chamber underneath the theater, which was most recently used for graduate student offices.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
The door frame is being painted with a finish to resemble bronze.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
A footworn plaque that was moved from the floor to the wall during a tour of Lincoln Hall on UI campus in Urbana on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
The Illinois state legislature appropriated $250,000 for the building in 1909 and construction began in 1910. Lincoln Hall opened for classes in fall of 1911. It was dedicated on Feb. 12, 1913.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
The ceiling fixtures needed updated electrical components, and sprinklers and recessed lights were also added.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
A worker walks through the theater near the stage.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
Bob Johnson of Koch Bros. is reflected in a mirror as he creates a form for a medallion outside the auditorium during a tour of Lincoln Hall on UI campus in Urbana on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
David Elder, St. Louis, applies a finish to metalwork to "age" the metal make it look like tarnished copper in the entryway.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
The rosettes in the coffered ceiling are covered with gold leaf.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
In Memorial Hall, workers have restored a stunning gold Greek key pattern along the top of the wall, which was discovered as paint was stripped away.
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Lincoln Hall Renovations Update
Photographer: Robin Scholz
Original plaster work in the theater.
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