Carpenter Hall, which was completed in 1957, houses the Engineering Library and the administrative offices of the College of Engineering. This building was a gift of Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., who was associated with E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company from 1909 until his retirement as their chairman of the Board in 1962. Carpenter was a member of the Cornell mechanical engineering class of 1910 and also served Cornell as a member of its board of trustees. The College of Engineering, under the leadership of Dean Simon Cady Hollister, experienced a major physical plant revitalization--ten new buildings added--from the completion of Olin Hall of Chemical Engineering in 1942 to the completion of Bard Hall in 1963. Carpenter Hall was one of these new buildings.