Mellon Hall is one of seven buildings named for notable secretaries of the United States Treasury at the suggestion of George F. Baker. Mellon Hall is named for Andrew W. Mellon. Built in 1926 as part ...

and endowed with wealth accumulated by Andrew Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the product of the 1969 merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation.