Louis Stanley Brown
Louis Stanley Brown Hall
The University of Scranton:
The
University of Scranton dedicated Louis Stanley Brown Hall to honor its
first African American graduate, who was a member of the class
of 1919. University of Scranton President Kevin P. Quinn, S.J., named
and blessed the building, located at 600 Linden Street, at a ceremony on
Feb. 18 as part of the University’s Black History Month celebration.
“The
University is proud to dedicate Louis Stanley Brown Hall, which takes a
page out of the University’s history books and brings it
to new life on campus and in the greater Scranton community,” said
Father Quinn. “As an African American college graduate in the early
1900s, he serves as an illustration to Jesuit and Catholic education’s
longstanding commitment to justice.”
Born
in 1902 in Scranton’s Pine Brook section, Brown earned a commercial
degree in 1919 from The University of Scranton, then St. Thomas
College. He was one of five children born to Henry and Sarah Brown
and attended St. Cecilia’s Academy prior to St. Thomas College. The
college’s yearbook noted that Brown was ambitious and industrious,
as well as humorous and witty. After graduation, he remained
in Scranton, working as a shoe shiner, a laborer in the coal mines and
for G.W. Brown Inc., a local trucking company. He died at the age 62,
and is buried in the Cathedral cemetery in Scranton.
Brown
Hall, formerly known as the Ad-Lin Building for its location on the
corner of Adams Avenue and Linden Street, was built in 1896.
The four-story brick structure, which is on the National Register of
Historic Places, is an example of both Classical Revival and Commercial
Style architecture. The building, acquired by the University in 2012,
houses Enrollment Management and External Affairs
and University Advancement divisions on the second, third and fourth
floors. The Small Business Development Center and Lavish Body and Home, a
privately owned hair salon and store, occupy the first floor.
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