The restoration of Coddington Hall has reached a major milestone with the approval of Quincy Historic Commission and completion of construction documents.
Coddington Hall is one of the city's finest institutional buildings listed in the State National Registers of historic places. The Colonial Revival style building was constructed in 1909 as an elementary school. Designed by Charles Brigham, the building is a three story red brick structure with a raised basement with window openings, rectangular plan and composite hip roof. The primary front (south) elevation features a projecting center pavilion with a hip roof flanked by three bay side pavilions, also with hip roofs. The five bay center section features pairs of windows within each of the five bays on the first and second floors and arched windows at the third level set above recessed spandrel panels. A central arched entrance with bracketed balcony is located at the top of a set of granite stairs. The elevation is articulated with granite string courses at the first and second floor levels. Four large brick chimneys project above the roofline.
The restoration and renovation of Coddington Hall includes new mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection systems and new utility services to the building. In addition, there will be new landscaping, site paving and exterior lighting, masonry restoration, new slate roof, copper gutters, new galvanized metal fascia, soffit and dentils to match the original and new windows.
Wessling Architects is providing historic preservation, building envelope restoration and interior design for this turn of the century building. The newly renovated 40,000 s/f space will feature school department, administrative offices, city and school Information Technology (IT), city printing department and new meeting space for the public.