Homewood Campus Tour

Alumni Memorial Residences
When the University was located downtown, students found housing in the many convenient boarding houses in the neighborhood. These were lacking at Homewood, and the administration recognized the need for dormitories. The campus plan drawn up in 1906 included ten dormitories, all facing a central quadrangle. When the move to Homewood occurred in 1916, however, a lack of funds prevented the University from constructing any student housing. In 1919, a group of alumni led by George Radcliffe (AB 1897, PhD 1900) raised funds for a building to honor their classmates who had died in the First World War. The cornerstone of the Alumni Memorial Dormitory was laid in June 1922, and the building opened in the fall of 1923. When a second structure was built in 1953- 54, the buildings became the Alumni Memorial Residences (AMR), and the present names of the fourteen houses that make up the two dormitories were chosen (Adams, Baker, Clark, Gildersleeve, Griffin, Hollander, Jennings, Lazear, Royce, Sylvester, Vincent, Willard, Wilson, Wood). The original dormitory building is now referred to as AMR 1, while the newer structure is known as AMR 2 (both pictured below).

AMR 1

AMR 2

In addition to student housing, the AMR 2 facility also includes the Office of Residential Life, a snack bar cyber café called MegaBytes, the Terrace Court Café and the Student Health and Wellness Center.

In 1982-83, a third set of dormitories was built. These dormitories have not been formally dedicated and are currently known as Building A and Building B. Sometimes these buildings are referred to as AMR 3.

Information about on-campus student housing is available online here.

 
Bradford Apartments
The Bradford Apartments, located at 3301 St. Paul Street, were purchased by the University in 1947 to help accomodate the large numbers of students, especially married veterans, who came to Hopkins in the years immediately following the Second World War. The Bradford was completely renovated in 1989-90, and currently houses 151 students in 75 apartments.

 
Homewood Apartments
The Homewood Apartments, located at 3003 North Charles Street, were acquired by the University in December 1970. Recently renovated in 1997, the seven-story building contains 160 apartments, which provide housing for 196 students. The Center for the Social Organization of Schools (CSOS) and the Office of Annual Giving are also housed in The Homewood.

 
Ivy Hall Apartments
The Ivy Hall Apartments, located at 10-12 East 33rd Street, were purchased by the University in 1988. The University renovated the building in 1991 to accomodate additional student housing, a University store, and university Conference Services.

 
Wolman Hall
The University purchased the Cambridge Arms Apartments in April 1966. Built in the 1920s, the apartments served as the home of F. Scott Fitzgerald for several years in the mid-1930s. In May 1966 the building was named Wolman Hall in honor of Professor Abel Wolman (AB 1913, BSE 1915, Professor of Sanitary Engineering 1921-89) who developed the formula used in chlorinating water supplies. Wolman served as an adviser on water matters to the governments of some 50 countries, and designed the water systems of many American cities, including Baltimore and New York. The University renovated Wolman Hall in 1990-91, increasing the building's capacity from 220 students to nearly 500.

 
McCoy Hall
The University purchased the Greenway Apartments in 1963, during a housing shortage caused by increased enrollment. In 1965 the building ws renamed McCoy Hall in honor of John W. McCoy. McCoy, a wealthy Baltimore merchant, first took an interest in the University in 1884, when he was elected the first president of the Baltimore Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, which also served as the Hopkins Archaeological Seminary. Upon his death in 1889, McCoy left the University his 8,000-volume library, his house, and approximately half a million dollars, the largest gift since Johns Hopkins's original bequest. The house served as the president's residence until 1898, while the money was used to build the original McCoy Hall, which held the humanities departments at the old downtown campus. That building burned while it was standing vacant, shortly after the University moved to Homewood. The University renovated the present McCoy Hall in 1991-92.

 
Rogers House
Rogers House, located on Greenway, was left to the university in 1945 by Julia R. Rogers. The Department of Geography moved in that year and remained until 1955. The building then houses various research groups until 1962, when it was occupied by the Ballistic Analysis Laboratory, a Johns Hopkins affiliate that did research for the Army. The lab remained until December 1968, when it became no longer affiliated with the university. From 1969 to 1971, the building housed fund-raising offices. In 1972-1973, Rogers House was converted into an apartment building to provide additional housing for women students. It currently houses fa sorority.

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