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Overview
Hermann Carl George Brandt was a German-born philologist and classicist who served on the Hamilton College faculty in the late nineteenth century. He is recorded as a Hamilton professor who built a home on College Hill Road in Clinton in 1886, which later became the Lambda Chi (Gryphon) fraternity house.
Relevance to Research
Brandt is mentioned in a May 1974 Spectator article about the history of the Hamilton College president’s residence and faculty housing on College Hill. The article notes that in 1886, “another Hamilton professor, Hermann Brandt, had built a house further up the hill in an especially florid version of the Queen Anne Style.” The house was given the affectionate German nickname “Das liebste, das beste Hause” (the dearest, the best house), and its demolition in 1971 is described as the loss of Hamilton’s “most fascinating architectural gem.”
Notes
The source refers to him simply as “Hermann Brandt.” The full name Hermann Carl George Brandt is supplied from external knowledge. The article’s emphasis is on the architectural history of Hamilton’s faculty housing rather than on Brandt’s academic career.
Related Sources
- spec-1974-05-23_djvu.txt