 Shevlin Hall served as the women's student union until Coffman Memorial Union opened in 1940.The building, a gift from Minneapolis lumberman Thomas H. Shevlin (1852-1912), named in honor of his wife Alice Ann Hall Shevlin (1864-1910), currently houses the Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences department.Designed in the Jacobethan Revival style by Minnesota State Architect Clarence H. Johnston, it was built to house departments displaced after the burning of Old Main in 1904.