Homewood Campus Tour

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.

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