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Stage 1:
Ralph Carlin Flewelling designed Harris Hall in 1940. The building is home to the USC School of Architecture and the Roski School of Fine Arts. When a hard rain hits, as it is now, students and professors say the building makes a strange whispering sound that fills the hallways and classrooms. No one has ever observed a similar sound in the other buildings at USC.
Stage 2:
Harris Hall Emergency Information:
• Building Address: 850 West 37th Street, Los Angeles 90089-0292
• Number of Floors: Two (Shared with Architecture & Fisher Gallery)
• Fire Alarm: Yes
• Automatic Fire Sprinkler System: No
• Fire Alarm Pull Stations: Center Courtyard, Ground floor, South Wall
• Fire Extinguishers: 120, 117, Shop Café
• Emergency Exits: 101, 220B, Shop Café
• Emergency Lighting: 201, 202, 203
Stage 3:
Those who made it to the rooftops survived, but there wasn’t enough room for everyone because of the thousands of people attending the Festival of Books. The Harris Hall rooftop saved 67 women, 49 men, and 15 children.
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