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===Notable academic facilities=== <!-- Please find secondary sources for this information to establish due weight. -->* '''George Washington Hall''' hosts the school's administrative offices and the Drama and Art Departments. It also hosts the school post office, locker rooms, and Day Student Lounge. It was built in 1926.<ref name="campusevolves" /> * '''Bulfinch Hall''' hosts the English Department. It was built in 1819 and renovated in 2012. It was named after architect [[Charles Bulfinch]], who taught the hall's architect Asher Benjamin.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chase |first1=David |title=Bulfinch Hall Reborn |date=2013 |publisher=Phillips Academy |location=Andover, Massachusetts |page=22 |url=https://issuu.com/phillipsacademy/docs/bulfinch_book_final_7a0be7a0671a66 |access-date=26 November 2018}}</ref> * '''Pearson Hall''' hosts the Classics Department. It was built in 1817.<ref>Paul Venable Turner, ''Academy Hill. The Andover Campus, 1778 to the Present''. Addison Gallery of American Art 2000, p. 43. </ref> It was formerly the chapel of Andover Theological Seminary.<ref>Allis, p. 358.</ref> * '''Morse Hall''' hosts the Math Department, the student [[WPAA (Massachusetts)|radio station]], some student publications, and the Community and Multicultural Development department. It was built in the 1920s/1930s. It was named after [[Samuel Morse]] '05, who invented the telegraph and [[Morse code]].<ref name="campusevolves" /> * '''Gelb Science Center''' hosts the Science Department and an observatory. It was built in 2004.<ref name="GelbScienceCenter">{{cite web |url=http://www.rdkengineers.com/index.cfm/portfolio/Academic/Phillips_Academy_Andover,_New_Gelb_Science_Center |title=Phillips Academy Andover, New Gelb Science Center |work=Rdkengineers.com |access-date=March 22, 2010 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143102/http://www.rdkengineers.com/index.cfm/portfolio/Academic/Phillips_Academy_Andover,_New_Gelb_Science_Center |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was named after donor [[Richard L. Gelb]] '41, the heir to the [[Clairol]] hair care company.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-07-04 |title=News - Richard L. Gelb obituary |url=http://www.andover.edu/news/gelb.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704142654/http://www.andover.edu/news/gelb.htm |archive-date=2008-07-04 |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=Phillips Academy}}</ref> * '''Oliver Wendell Holmes Library''' (OWHL) houses over 80,000 books and contains classroom space.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://owhl.andover.edu/about |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=The Oliver Wendell Holmes Library |language=en-US}}</ref> It was built in 1929 and renovated in 1987 and 2019.<ref name="preservation.mhl.org">{{Cite web|title=7 Great Quad Road {{!}} Andover Historic Preservation|url=https://preservation.mhl.org/7-great-quad-road|access-date=2021-11-17|website=preservation.mhl.org}}</ref> It is named after [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.]] '25, the poet and physician. Built in the Georgian Revival architectural style,<ref name="preservation.mhl.org" /> it has been modernized over the years and now contains a silent study room and a [[Library makerspace|makerspace]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-04-27|title='Silent Study' to Move into Paresky Commons|url=https://phillipian.net/2018/04/27/silent-study-move-paresky-commons/|access-date=2021-11-17|website=The Phillipian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.andover.edu/news/2018/reimagining-the-library|title=Reimagining the library|last=Andover|date=2020-03-31|website=Andover|language=en|access-date=2020-04-12}}</ref>
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