Modern Federal · City halls

A connecting corridor joins Martin Luther King Jr. Hall, left, to Ethel Buckman Hall, the school of business, at Hampton University, a historically black university in Hampton, Virginia, one of the state's Tidewater-region cities at the place where the James River, Chesapeake Bay, and Atlantic Ocean converge

Virginia · 1850–1939

A connecting corridor joins Martin Luther King Jr. Hall, left, to Ethel Buckman Hall, the school of business, at Hampton University, a historically black university in Hampton, Virginia, one of the state's Tidewater-region cities at the place where the James River, Chesapeake Bay, and Atlantic Ocean converge, Virginia, 1850–1939
A connecting corridor joins Martin Luther King Jr. Hall, left, to Ethel Buckman Hall, the school of business, at Hampton University, a historically black university in Hampton, Virginia, one of the state's Tidewater-region cities at the place where the James River, Chesapeake Bay, and Atlantic Ocean converge, Virginia, 1850–1939. City halls — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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