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Huddleston Hall is home to the Hamel Honors and Scholars College.
This historic building was thoughtfully renovated in 2024 to provide comfortable study and gathering spaces, faculty and staff offices, and classrooms suited to 21st-century learning. Open to the UNH community from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, Huddleston Hall is available 24 hours a day to Honors College students.?
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Huddleston Commons
Previously known as the Huddleston Ballroom, the Commons is a large study hall in the heart of Huddleston Hall. It accommodates many study preferences with its high-top tables, comfortable chairs around the perimeter, and study alcoves with screen-sharing capacity.?
Student Lounge
Just outside of the Huddleston classrooms (224A and 224B), the student lounge space is perfect for collaborative group work.
Huddle Spaces
Looking for a collaborative study space? The Huddleston Huddle Spaces might be perfect for you!? Ranging from enclosed study spaces with whiteboards, TV connectivity, and swivel chairs to open study spaces with floor cushions and lounging chairs, these spaces can meet all of your collaborative study session needs! Bring a friend and check out the Huddle Spaces on the 2nd floor of Huddleston lining the hallway to the Advising Suite and overlooking the Huddleston Ballroom.
Huddleston Sunroom (110)
This flexible space on the ground floor can be reserved by campus departments and organizations for meetings and events. It provides comfortable lecture-style seating for about 60 people, and can also be configured for larger groups.?
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Study spaces throughout Huddleston Hall are on a first-come, first-served basis.
No reservation is required!
Huddleston Hall 224A and 224B are seminar classrooms with capacity maximums of 22 and 30 people, respectively.? Huddleston 110 (the Sunroom) is a flexible space that can be used for meetings and events, and holds up to 80 people. To reserve a room in Huddleston Hall for your meeting or event, log in to the UNH Event Services Portal using your UNH login. Then, select "Create a Reservation" to begin searching for available spaces.?
Reserve Space in Huddleston Hall
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Huddleston Hall History
"The Commons"
Huddleston Hall, originally known as "The Commons", first opened its doors in 1919 as a campus dining facility. The building was later renamed in honor of its architect, Eric T. Huddleston (1888-1977), on October 12, 1963.
Students dining in "The Commons" (1922).?
Eric T. Huddleston ca. 1927
Eric T. Huddleston
Huddleston joined New Hampshire College in 1914 where he served as the supervising campus architect until 1946. He continued to serve as a member of the Department of Drawing, the first college-level architectural program in northern New England, college faculty until 1958. Huddleston was also the founder and first president of the New Hampshire Society of Architects and became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1953.
