I’m just curious. I got a bunch of books that clearly belonged to a college student from the 1960s, and Google is only leading me to people named, for instance, Arian Hall or Erian Hall.
Someone out there has to know what it is. Most likely, it’s in the upper Midwest but it could be anywhere.
Are you sure it’s not Ariana Hall?
Can you take a picture of the name of the owner on the flyleaf of the book and link to that picture? I presume that the books have the name of the owner of the book written in cursive writing on the flyleaf. If the writing just uses standard printing forms of the letters, I presume that you would be sure of what the name was.
The OP title and text taken together are very confusing.
Does the OP think the writing in the books is the name of a facility or the name of a person? And whichever the OP thinks, why do they think that and how confident are they in that assessment? Or is the issue that the OP can’t read the writing accurately and is hoping we can guess about something we can’t see.
Finally, what question are they actually asking of us? The whole thing is, at least to me, an incomprehensible mess. There is evidently a lot of context in their head that they did not include in their post.
Google says author Rebecca Harding Davis lived as a child in Arian Hall in Wheeling.
I have no idea whether that’s useful.
No, it also had her name and room number. This was most likely a college dorm.
I’m not quite as curious now as I was last night.
The thread title says “Arians or Erians Hall” [with final -s] but the text of the OP says “Arian Hall or Erian Hall” [without -s]. Which is it?
I will note that Marian Hall is a fairly common name for buildings on Catholic college campuses, presumably in the sense “relating to the Virgin Mary.” Without knowing why you think it’s Arian or Arians or Erian or Erians, I can’t say how unlikely it is to be Marian instead.
I suspect the former (i.e., the writing in the book includes an “s”); the OP was saying that Googling the word with an “s” was only giving results for people whose first names are Arian or Erian (with no “s”).
How about Hadrian’s Wall?