Packard Hall, University building in Medford, United States.

Packard Hall is a three-story brick building on Tufts University's Walnut Hill campus in Medford, Massachusetts. Its high pitched roof is broken by dormer windows, and a half-hexagonal turret with neo-gothic trimmed windows, added in 1885, rises from the facade. Pediment detail, cornice molding, corner quoins and an enlarged entryway ornament the brickwork, and a four-story tower added in 2008 stands on the west side.

The structure was built in 1856 as Middle Hall and served as the second building on Tufts University's Walnut Hill campus. It housed the university library from 1885 until the completion of a new library facility, after which it took on its current name in recognition of a key early supporter.

The building's names trace its uses: Building A in 1856, Middle Hall from 1885, when the first floor held reading rooms and the second floor the book stacks, and Packard Hall from 1908, after Sylvanus Packard, one of the college's first benefactors. It later housed the Crane Theological School and the English department before passing to Political Science.

Packard Hall is a working academic building for Tufts' Department of Political Science, not a tourist site, so there are no public tours or visitor access. The 2008 restoration by William Rawn added a four-story tower on the west side holding a second stairway and an elevator. From the outside, look for that tower against the older brick block.

Packard Hall was nearly demolished in the 1930s: the university considered razing it to make way for a large graduate hall for the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. It survived, and in 2008 architect William Rawn restored the building and added a four-story tower on the west side.