Marshall University Architectural Guide
by Carlos Bozzoli, Architect
The John Deaver Drinko Academy

Myers Hall

  
View from northwest
  
Current use:
The building houses the Higher Education for Learning Problems Center (H.E.L.P.),which provides services for dyslexia or at-tention deficiency disorders.
Location: 
18th Street at the east end of campus
Designers:
Clint Bryan & Ass., Architects, Charleston,WV.
Completed: 
1992
Name: 
For Wilbur E. Myers, who contributed most of the private funds used to build and fur-nish the facility.

A one-story building, with red brick masonry walls, the Myers Hall building shows a very simple exterior expression. The horizontal emphasis is done with three continuous flat fascias of white-rendered stucco: the first at the ground level, as a skirt board, the second as a lintel, and the third as a cornice. A skeleton structure is somehow suggested with the use of corner columns and intermediate columns that separates full height window panels. As it happen at the Twin Towers, each piece of the brick walls are not pierced by any class of openings, and may be looked as two-dimensional closures, more than thick, massive masonry. (A frequent resource used by the Dutch Neo Plastic designers of the 1920’s). The main entrance has a protruding porch supported by cylindrical columns. At each side of the entrance two low, convex walls helps to guide the visitor to the entrance. These almost semicircular outdoors walls provide shelter to a garden parterre with benches, allowing people to enjoy the exterior outskirts of the building.