Homewood Campus Tour

Hodson Hall opened for the fall semester of 2002, west of Garland Hall and north of Clark Hall on the west side of the Homewood campus. The three-story, 48,000-square foot building contains state-of-the-art classrooms and lecture halls, an auditorium, meeting space for the university's board of trustees, and the archives of the Hodson Trust and the Beneficial Corp.

The Hodson Trust, which committed $13 million to construction of the building, was created in 1920 by the family of Beneficial Corp.'s founder, Colonel Clarence Hodson. It supports excellence in higher education by providing grants for scholarships, capital improvements, research and other purposes to four Maryland schools: Johns Hopkins, Washington College, Hood College and St. John's College.

Under the stewardship for the past 28 years of its current chairman, Finn M.W. Caspersen, the trust's total donations to the four institutions have grown from $12.6 million to more than $118 million.

You can read about the construction of Hodson Hall in this December 17, 2001 Gazette article.

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