Homewood Campus Tour

Mergenthaler Hall, originally home to the Biology Department, was constructed in 1940-41 with money provided by Eugene and Mrs. Ottmar Mergenthaler, son and widow of Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German immigrant who invented the linotype printing press in Baltimore 1884.

The north wing of the building, which parallels Jenkins Hall, was added in 1961-62. In 1984, after the Biology Department moved to its new complex centered on Mudd Hall, the building was completely renovated, and is now occupied by the Departments of Economics, History of Art, Political Science, and Sociology, as well as the offices of the Dean of Arts & Sciences and Undergraduate Affairs.

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