Inside BC’s new Stokes Hall
For the first time in 45 years, Boston College will soon open a new academic facility on the main part of its Chestnut Hill campus.
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The $78 million Stokes Hall is the school’s most expensive educational building. Shown here is the lounge.
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The building represents a bet in the future of bricks-and-mortar higher education.
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The building’s namesake, Patrick T. Stokes, who has donated $22 million toward the facility, earned a degree in math from BC in 1964.
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The honors library at Stokes Hall. The first classes will be held in the building when students return from winter break.
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One of the smaller classrooms. The college broke ground on the 183,000-square-foot building two years ago.
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The building features 36 new classrooms, common areas, an honors library, outdoor plaza, and amphitheater.
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“The biggest compliment we get from everyone is it looks like it’s always been there,” said Patrick Keating, executive vice president of BC.
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