Upton Hall

Constructed in 1941 and first named Hoff Hall for Colonel John Van Rensselaer Hoff, whose career was in military medical training, the building served as an academic building for the Medical Field Service School and later schools. When the Army War College arrived in 1951, Hoff Hall was renamed Root Hall after Elihu Root, founder of the War College. In 1967, the War College moved into a new academic building also called Root Hall, and the former Root Hall became Upton Hall. Until 2004, its next major occupant was the Military History Research Collection, now the U.S. Army Military History Institute. It later housed Headquarters, U.S. Army Garrison, Carlisle Barracks, and was joined a few years later by the U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. Upton Hall honors Brevet Major General Emory Upton, known for leading Union infantry in attacks on entrenched Confederate positions at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House during the Civil War. A firm advocate of military education and one of the first true American strategic thinkers, Upton wrote The Military Policy of the United States, a work that examined American military policies and practices and strongly influenced the leaders who founded the War College.

Schlusser, Pennsylvania · United States