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Chesapeake Hall is known as the "other half" of...
Delaware Hall (and vice versa) since together they make up a double-block-style building. Both dorms were named to honor Native American tribes that once called Luzerne County home. Chesapeake boasts two lounges on the first floor. One contains a pool table and the other contains couches and a television. These lounges present varied options for relaxing and recreation! rooms...10 singles, 8 doubles average room size...14' x 11' If you were at Wilkes before 1967...
Chesapeake and Delaware Halls were apartment buildings. They were built in the 1880s as a block of four houses with a common facade. The homes belonged to Benjamin Reynolds, a businessman, and were designed by the Wilkes-Barre architectural firm of Kipp and Podmore. During the 1900s, the building now known as Chesapeake Hall was renovated into apartments, but the basic original structure of the building remains intact. A Baptist church previously stood on the site of Chesapeake and Delaware Halls. The brick, Greek Revival church was built circa 1847, but was sold when the congregation moved out in the 1880s. |
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