Citing an anticipated record residential enrollment this fall, Lindsey Wilson College will build a new residence hall on the college’s A.P. White Campus.

The new residence hall will house up to 156 students, and it will be built on the eastern edge of campus, between Weldon Hall and the Band Building.

After the new residence hall is assembled from 18 prefabricated units, it will include 52 rooms and a resident hall director’s apartment. The cost of the one-story, 16,100 square feet residence hall will be about $750,000. It will be opened at the start of the 2011-12 school year.

The decision to build a new residence hall comes less than a year after Lindsey Wilson opened its largest residence hall, Harold J. Smith Hall, which houses 186 male undergraduate students.

The new residence hall, which has not yet been named, will house female undergraduate students.

“The new residence hall will be a great addition to the campus, and it will provide our students with a wonderful living-learning environment,” said Lindsey Wilson Vice President of Student Services and Enrollment Management Dean Adams, who oversees the college’s residence life program.