Fauquier Hall; residence hall dedicated to Francis Fauquier
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Fauquier, Francis
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Fauquier Hall; residence hall dedicated to Francis Fauquier
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Fauquier Hall is part of the Botetourt (pronounced Bot-eh-tot) Complex and houses approximately 80 residents in double rooms. It was constructed in 1971-1973, along with the other buildings in the Botetourt Complex. The building is named after Governor Francis Fauquier. Although he enslaved seventeen people at the Governor's Palace, he wrote in his will: "It is now expedient that I should dispose of my slaves, a part of my estate in its nature disagreeable to me, but which my situation made necessary for me." Although he did not free the people that he enslaved, he asked that children stay with their mothers and specified that they were able to choose their next enslavers.
President Thomas Ashley Graves, Jr. oversaw the expansion of William & Mary's dorms and university life spaces, including Fauquier Hall.
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This is a three-story brick building, constructed in the Brutalist style similar to many other campus buildings that were built in the early 1970s.
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Graves, Thomas Ashley
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1972
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William & Mary
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