Chatham Hall is an all-girls college-preparatory boarding school located in Chatham, Virginia. Graduating classes are fewer than forty students each year. The school was founded as Chatham Episcopal Institute in 1894, Chatham Hall.
World leaders visit Chatham Hall each year as part of the Leaders-in-Residence program, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner and former Irish President Mary Robinson, primatologist Jane Goodall, and Nancy Brinker, founder of Race for the Cure. The School hosted former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was recently assassinated in her native country, and PEN/Faulkner Award-winner Tobias Wolff in the 2006-2007 school year. For the 2007-2008 school year, they hosted Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, current president of Liberia, and poet, Carolyn Forche. For 2008-2009 school year, they hosted President Chandrika Kumaratunga, former president of Sri Lanka.
The Voorhis Lecture Hall not only offers students, faculty and guests a spacious place to meet and talk, but also honors a former rector who left an impressive legacy at the school. The 3,788 square foot lecture hall can accommodate up to 350 faculty members, students and guests.
Client: Chatham Hall
Location: Chatham, Virginia
Discipline: Middle & High Schools, Interior Design
Completion: 2009
Size: 13,697 SF Renovation and 3,930 Addition
