

Geographic Coordinates: 46.728165, -117.012844
Location: Line Street and Idaho Avenue 801 & 701 S. Line St
Brink and Phinney Halls
Architect: Whitehouse, Price (Spokane); Richardson, Hugh (Lewiston)
Description: Brink: Reinforced concrete, red fireproof brick, trimmed with Boise Sandstone. Gable roof, composition shingles, five floors, front 178' long, wings 81' and 129' long respectively, each wing about 29' wide. Phinney: Four floors and basement, reinforced concrete and brick, gable roof, wood shingles, each wing about 98' x 30'
Additions: Elevator towers added to both in 1999
Use History: Brink: Originally a men's dorm housing 200. Currently houses placement center; math/statistics/English departments, miscellaneous faculty and grad offices. Phinney: Men's dormitory, later Sociology-Anthropology museum and department offices; misc. faculty offices
Date: 1936-
Date Notes: Brink 1936- ; Phinney 1938-
Cost: $388,130
Cost Notes: $250,000 (Regents bonds); $138,130 (local bonds)
Sources: Cards, Morton, UG 12 (2325)
Images of Brink and Phinney Halls
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![Mathematics. University of Idaho. Kenneth A. Bush at blackboard. [257-1]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/campus/small/campus01964_sm.jpg)
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![Chrisman Hall, University of Idaho. Construction. [76-3]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/campus/small/campus02758_sm.jpg)
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