Homewood Campus Tour

Levering Hall was designed by Edward l. Palmer (AB 1899) and built in 1928-29. The building is named in honor of Eugene Levering, a local banker and religious leader, and a Hopkins trustee from 1898 to 1928. He was also a leader in the temperance movement, becoming the Prohibition Party's first candidate for Congress from Maryland in 1886. Levering had provided $20,000 for a YMCA and student activities building at the University's old downtown campus. After the University moved to the Homewood campus, the insurance money from the old Levering Hall, which had burned, was supplemented by another donation from Levering and by funds raised by students and alumni to build a new YMCA building on land provided by the University. In 1946, a one-story addition was made to the building to enlarge the cafeteria facilities. A second story was added to this in 1963 to provide space for student groups.

In 1969, the University exercised its option in the original agreement with the YMCA and purchased the building. Levering Hall now houses the Union Desk, the Office of Student Involvement and the Center for Social Concern as well as a cafeteria, called Levering Market, and E-Level, the campus pub and coffee bar.

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