a campaign for a building fund of $50,000, with Samuel Colgate, its President, taking an active part. By commencement of 1884 the goal had been reached and a “Congratulatory Meeting,”
addressed by graduates from the 1820’s and ’30’s, was held on the hillside where the structure was to be located. The widow of President Eaton, who died in 1872, had sold her house and lot to the Society for the site and was delighted to learn that the new building would be named for her husband. Dedicated in 1886, it provided commodious classrooms, a chapel, and two dormitory floors, It was constructed of stone from the campus quarry, trimmed with limestone and red pressed brick and had three stories, a mansard roof and a clock tower. With the removal of the Seminary to Rochester in 1928, Eaton Hall, or the “Angel Factory,”
as the students called it, provided dormitory space for the College and classrooms and offices for the Departments of Philosophy and Religion and Music. In 1956 it was razed to make way for Dodge, Eaton and Kendrick Houses.
