Homewood Campus Tour

Gilman Hall was designed by Douglas Thomas (AB 1893) of Parker, Thomas, and Rice, the firm that had won the 1904 competition for an overall campus design. The first major academic building on campus, it was carefully based upon Homewood House, beginning the tradition of Georgian academic buildings on campus. Construction began in 1913, and the building was dedicated on May 21, 1915, and named for Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of The Johns Hopkins University. For many years, Gilman Hall was the central academic building on campus. Combining classrooms, seminar rooms, offices and libraries for all of the humanities and social sicences departments, the building was a unique experiment in the combination of research and teaching. Today, Gilman Hall still houses most of the humanities departments, as well as a bank, the campus bookstore and post office, and overflow library stacks.

The main reading room, on the second floor of the building, was named in honor of Albert D. Hutzler (AB 1909, trustee 1951-61), in November 1965. Hutzler was one of the founding members of the Friends of the Library and led the fundraising campaign for the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. This room, now known as the Hutzler Undergraduate Library, contains one of the building's most striking features, the nineteen stained glass windows bearing the names and seals of fifteenth- century European printers. These were given in 1930 by Mary King Carey, in memory of her father, Francis T. King, one of the University's original trustees.

In addition to housing several academic departments affiliated with the School of Arts and Sciences, Gilman Hall houses a U.S. Post Office, M T Bank, JH Mail Distribution and Transport Services, the Johns Hopkins University Bookcenter and the Johns Hopkins Federal Credit Union.

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