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Love Hall

In 1939 the second and third wings of the building were built, named after Amanda Henrietta Heppner and Julia Larrabee Love. This added 200 rooms to the residence center, where room and board cost $152 a semester.  With the addition of Love Hall the original sun porch off of the North-West side of Raymond hall was enclosed, and enclosed walkways connected the two new additions.

Facts and Figures 
  • Architect: Davis & Wilson

  • Style: Modified Colonial

  • Cost: $225,000 (Love and Heppner)

    • $101,000 ​from PWA grant

    • $55,000 from Don L. Love

  • Capacity: 96

In addition to these first level changes, the ground floor of Love featured a trunk room, a shampoo room, the boiler room a large study room and a recreation room. The study room in the North West corner became affectionately known as The Morgue.  On the first floor “Furniture in the main reception or lounge rooms is done in bleached walnut; the colors of the upholstery blending with the rust colored rugs. Lighting fixtures are of light statuary bronze.” in addition, “Lighting fixtures, except those in the main reception rooms are eighteenth century Georgian colonial style." The two wings were constructed to form a courtyard where effective sunlight would be available to those on the first floors facing the courtyard.

Julia Larrabee Love

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Little is known about Julia other than that she was the wife of Don L. Love, mayor of Lincoln and major benefactor to the university. Born in Iowa in 1867, daughter of Iowa governor William Larabee and Anna Larrabee, she moved to Nebraska after graduating from the University of Iowa. Although both were from Iowa, they did not meet until after Don moved to Lincoln, and they were then married in 1890. Upon Julia’s death in 1937, Don Love paid for the construction of two residence halls, one of which is the Love Hall attached to Raymond. (the other is Love Memorial Hall a co-op style residence hall located on East Campus) Julia is buried at the God's Acres Cemetery in Clermont, Iowa.

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