Duncan McArthur Hall

[photo of Duncan McArthur Hall]

Duncan McArthur Hall is one of the few buildings located on the west campus of ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥. The campus is located about two kilometres west of the main campus and was purchased by ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ in 1969. Before ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ bought the 61-acre area, it held a farm and a stone quarry, both of which were worked by inmates of the Kingston Penitentiary.

Duncan McArthur Hall, built between 1969 and 1971 with funding from the Ontario government, is a very large building which houses ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Faculty of Education, made up of administrative offices, classrooms, labs, technical shops, and the large .

It is named after a former professor of history at ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥, Duncan McArthur, who served as the provincial Minister of Education in the 1940s. The entire faculty is sometimes known as McArthur College, which was, in fact, its official name until 1971.