Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University
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The Homewood campus is the main academic and administrative center of the Johns Hopkins University
. It is located at 3400 North Charles Street in Baltimore
, Maryland
. Although Hopkins has several campuses, the Homewood campus and medical campus are the most important. It houses the two major undergraduate schools: the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
and the Whiting School of Engineering
.
left his summer home, Clifton, to the university for its new campus. But, one of his provisions was that only interest obtained from his stock in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
could be used to build facilities for the university. Unfortunately, after Johns Hopkins' death, the railroad fell into mismanagement and its eventual collapse was assured by the Panic of 1893
and the stock became worthless. Therefore, the original campus of the University was in downtown Baltimore where buildings were already available. However, this location did not permit room for growth and the trustees began to look for a place to move. Eventually, Hopkins would relocate to the Homewood Estate, where it created the park-like main campus of Hopkins Homewood, set on 140 acres (0.57 km²) in what today lies between the north Baltimore neighborhoods of Charles Village
, Guilford, and Hampden.
As a part of the donation, Hopkins was required to donate part of the land for art. As a result, the Baltimore Museum of Art
, which has ties to but is not part of the University, is situated next to the University's campus, just southeast of Shriver Hall. North of the campus, also on Charles Street, there is the Evergreen House, one of Hopkins' museums.
The majority of buildings on the portion of North Charles Street that borders Homewood are owned and operated by the university and are informally part of the Homewood campus.
of Homewood House. Most newer buildings resemble this style, being built of red brick with white marble trim, but lack the details. Homewood House was later used for administrative offices but now is preserved as a museum. The space is organized in quads
around Gilman Hall. Some of the main buildings and features include:
In 1997, the university purchased the vacant 200000 square feet (18,580.6 m²) former Eastern High School
, immediately across from Memorial Stadium
on East 33rd Street, one mile (1.6 km) east of Homewood. It reopened in 2001, largely occupied by administrative offices.
The University undertook a major renovation of the Homewood campus in 2000-2002, termed "Great Excavations". Asphalt, vehicle-accessible roads throughout the campus were replaced with brick-paved walkways. The traffic circle located in front of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, which for many years had existed as a half circle that connected to campus roads, was completed, in line with the original Master Plan for the University. Traffic was redirected to the periphery of the campus and greenery was added throughout the campus, with the goal of making the core areas of Homewood safer, more pedestrian-friendly and more attractive. A number of new buildings, including Clark Hall (home to the Biomedical Engineering department), Hodson Hall (a multi-use classroom building), the Mattin Center (a student arts and activities center), the Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center, and the New Chemistry Building, were also constructed in the early 2000s.
A second campus expansion called Charles Commons was completed in September 2006, is located across Charles St from Homewood, at 33rd Street between Charles and St. Paul Streets. The approximately 350000 sq ft (32,516.1 m²) development includes housing for approximately 618 students, with supporting amenity spaces; a central dining facility and specialty dining area with seating capacity
of approximately 330; an approximately 29000 sq ft (2,694.2 m²) book store run by Barnes and Noble College Division.
The Decker Quadrangle development constituted the last large building site on the contiguous Homewood campus. Its first phase included a visitors and admissions center (Mason Hall), a computational sciences building (Hackerman Hall), and an underground parking structure, which together created a new quadrangle, south of Garland Hall, named in honor of Alonso G. and Virginia G. Decker. Construction was completed and the new buildings and quadrangle dedicated in 2008. Importantly, the project established a new public entrance for the campus and recognizes the potential for future growth of campus activities sited across Wyman Park Drive.
In 2007, the university announced a $73 million renovation of Gilman Hall, the academic centerpiece of the Homewood Campus. The building had grown labyrinthine over the years, with former library stacks being used as offices and only half the building's stairwells reaching all its floors. The renovation included updates to all classrooms in the building, as well as a full replacement of the building's infrastructure. The renovation involved removal of the bookstore, bank and credit union, creating more space for academic departments. The Hutzler Undergraduate Reading Room was also renovated, and a dedicated film screening room was added. The centerpiece of the renovation was a large glass-roofed atrium, connecting the building's entrance and the Hutzler Reading Room, that now houses the university's premier archaeological collection. The building was formally dedicated on October 23, 2010 as the home of the University's humanities departments.
In early December 2008, the Trustees proposed the construction of a new library addition costing $30 million. The new structure, named the Brody Learning Commons, will augment the existing library, a 185000 square feet (17,187.1 m²) facility built in 1964 and partially renovated in 1998 that will for the most part not change. The building will feature a quiet reading room, 15 new group study rooms, a new atrium and a café. Ground was officially broken on June 6, 2010, with a scheduled completion date of July 2012.
The Space Telescope Science Institute
is located on the Homewood campus and controls, analyzes, and collects data from the Hubble Space Telescope
.
The Johns Hopkins University, working with Collegetown Development Alliance, a joint-venture team composed of Struever Brothers, Eccles & Rouse and Capstone Development, recently teamed up to develop a mixed-use project featuring student housing, a central dining facility and a major campus book store.
The Milton S. Eisenhower Library (called "MSE" by students), is the Johns Hopkins University
principal research library and the largest in a network of libraries at Johns Hopkins. This network, known as The Sheridan Libraries, encompasses the Milton S. Eisenhower Library and its collections at the Albert D. Hutzler Reading Room in Gilman Hall (called "The Hut" by students), the John Work Garrett Library at Evergreen House and the George Peabody Library
at Mount Vernon Place. Opened in 1964, the library was named for the university's eighth president, Milton S. Eisenhower
, brother of former U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower
, whose vision brought together the university's rich collection of books, journals and other scholarly resources.
The Eisenhower Library collection numbers over 2.6 million volumes and houses over 20,000 journal subscriptions. Strengths in the humanities include German and Romance Languages, Philosophy and the Ancient Near East. In science and engineering, collection strengths include biomedical engineering, chemistry and environmental engineering. The library also offers an extensive array of electronic resources, including full-text books and journals, specialized databases, and statistical and cartographic data. Only two of the MSE library's six stories are above ground, the rest are beneath. However, the architects designed the building so that every level has windows and natural light. The design accords with a bit of traditional campus lore which says no structure on campus can be taller than Gilman Hall, the oldest academic building.
The house has a two-story Georgian
structure and it was built in 1958. Its construction was funded with the proceeds from the sale of an off-campus building formerly used as the president's house, as well as a large gift from Thomas Nichols, university trustee and president of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Co. It was built to attract Milton S. Eisenhower
to come to JHU. Eisenhower was its first resident in 1959, and it continues to house presidents. However, from 1971 to 1996, three presidents declined to occupy it, so it was used to house university guests and as administrative offices. Russian President Boris Yeltsin
stayed there, and the house was used as a location during the filming of The Seduction of Joe Tynan
. Inl 1996, William R. Brody
became the 13th president of the University and opted to once again live at Nichols House.
, maintained by US Lacrosse
, is on the Homewood campus adjacent to the home field for the lacrosse teams, Homewood Field
. Johns Hopkins lacrosse teams have represented the United States
in international competition. At the 1928 Summer Olympics
in Amsterdam and 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics lacrosse demonstration events
Hopkins represented the US and team members received Olympic Gold Medals. This was the only such accolade in the history of US college sports. They have also gone to Melbourne
, Australia
to win the 1974 World Lacrosse Championship
.
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
. It is located at 3400 North Charles Street in Baltimore
Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the US state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore...
, Maryland
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
. Although Hopkins has several campuses, the Homewood campus and medical campus are the most important. It houses the two major undergraduate schools: the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
The Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one of nine academic divisions of the Johns Hopkins University, in the United States. Located at the university’s Homewood campus at the Charles Village neighborhood in northern Baltimore...
and the Whiting School of Engineering
Whiting School of Engineering
The G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, is a division of the Johns Hopkins University located in the university's Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
.
History
In his will Johns HopkinsJohns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins was a wealthy American entrepreneur, philanthropist and abolitionist of 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Johns Hopkins University and its associated...
left his summer home, Clifton, to the university for its new campus. But, one of his provisions was that only interest obtained from his stock in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the oldest railroads in the United States and the first common carrier railroad. It came into being mostly because the city of Baltimore wanted to compete with the newly constructed Erie Canal and another canal being proposed by Pennsylvania, which...
could be used to build facilities for the university. Unfortunately, after Johns Hopkins' death, the railroad fell into mismanagement and its eventual collapse was assured by the Panic of 1893
Panic of 1893
The Panic of 1893 was a serious economic depression in the United States that began in 1893. Similar to the Panic of 1873, this panic was marked by the collapse of railroad overbuilding and shaky railroad financing which set off a series of bank failures...
and the stock became worthless. Therefore, the original campus of the University was in downtown Baltimore where buildings were already available. However, this location did not permit room for growth and the trustees began to look for a place to move. Eventually, Hopkins would relocate to the Homewood Estate, where it created the park-like main campus of Hopkins Homewood, set on 140 acres (0.57 km²) in what today lies between the north Baltimore neighborhoods of Charles Village
Charles Village, Baltimore
Charles Village is a neighborhood located in the north-central area of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It is a middle-class area with many single-family homes that is in proximity to many of Baltimore's urban amenities. The neighborhood began in 1869 when of land were purchased for development...
, Guilford, and Hampden.
As a part of the donation, Hopkins was required to donate part of the land for art. As a result, the Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, was founded in 1914. Built in the Roman Temple style, the Museum is home to an internationally renowned collection of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art. Founded in 1914 with a single painting, the BMA today has 90,000 works...
, which has ties to but is not part of the University, is situated next to the University's campus, just southeast of Shriver Hall. North of the campus, also on Charles Street, there is the Evergreen House, one of Hopkins' museums.
The majority of buildings on the portion of North Charles Street that borders Homewood are owned and operated by the university and are informally part of the Homewood campus.
Architecture
The architecture was modeled after the Federal styleFederal architecture
Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815. This style shares its name with its era, the Federal Period. The name Federal style is also used in association with furniture design...
of Homewood House. Most newer buildings resemble this style, being built of red brick with white marble trim, but lack the details. Homewood House was later used for administrative offices but now is preserved as a museum. The space is organized in quads
Quadrangle (architecture)
In architecture, a quadrangle is a space or courtyard, usually rectangular in plan, the sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of a large building. The word is probably most closely associated with college or university campus architecture, but quadrangles may be found in other...
around Gilman Hall. Some of the main buildings and features include:
- Gilman Hall, designed by Douglas Thomas, was the first major academic building. Based upon Homewood House, it began the tradition of Federal-style academic buildings on campus. Construction began in 1913, and the building was dedicated on May 21, 1915, and named for Daniel Coit GilmanDaniel Coit GilmanDaniel Coit Gilman was an American educator and academician, who was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and who subsequently served as one of the earliest presidents of the University of California, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as...
, the first president of the university. Gilman Hall underwent a major 3-year renovation that was completed in 2010. - Milton S. Eisenhower Library, the main university library.
- The Decker Gardens, bordered by the Greenhouse, Nichols House and the Johns Hopkins ClubJohns Hopkins ClubThe Johns Hopkins Club is a private club located on the grounds of The Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus at 3400 North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland.-History:...
, were originally known as the Botanical Gardens and were used by members of the Department of Biology to grow plants for research. By the early 1950s, the gardens no longer served an educational purpose, and in 1958, when Nichols House was built as the president's residence, they were completely re-landscaped with aesthetic criteria in mind. In 1976, the gardens were done over again, and named for trustee Alonzo G. Decker, Jr. and members of his family in appreciation for their generosity to Hopkins. - The statue in the middle of the pool, the Sea Urchin, was sculpted by Edward Berge. It stood in Mount Vernon Place, near the Washington MonumentWashington MonumentThe Washington Monument is an obelisk near the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate the first U.S. president, General George Washington...
, for 34 years before being replaced by a 7'10" copy, which fit in better with its monumental surroundings. Frank R. Huber, the man who left the city the money to make the copy, asked that the original be given to Paul M. Higinbotham, who donated it to the university. North of the campus, also on Charles Street, we find the Evergreen House, one of Hopkins' museums.
In 1997, the university purchased the vacant 200000 square feet (18,580.6 m²) former Eastern High School
Eastern High School (Baltimore, Maryland)
Eastern High School is a historic female high school located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a three story, "H"-shaped structure, with a main lateral section and four projecting wings. It has a steel and concrete frame with red brick cladding in the Tudor Revival style...
, immediately across from Memorial Stadium
Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)
Memorial Stadium was a sports stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, that formerly stood on 33rd Street on an over-sized block also bounded by Ellerslie Avenue , 36th Street , and Ednor Road...
on East 33rd Street, one mile (1.6 km) east of Homewood. It reopened in 2001, largely occupied by administrative offices.
The University undertook a major renovation of the Homewood campus in 2000-2002, termed "Great Excavations". Asphalt, vehicle-accessible roads throughout the campus were replaced with brick-paved walkways. The traffic circle located in front of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, which for many years had existed as a half circle that connected to campus roads, was completed, in line with the original Master Plan for the University. Traffic was redirected to the periphery of the campus and greenery was added throughout the campus, with the goal of making the core areas of Homewood safer, more pedestrian-friendly and more attractive. A number of new buildings, including Clark Hall (home to the Biomedical Engineering department), Hodson Hall (a multi-use classroom building), the Mattin Center (a student arts and activities center), the Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center, and the New Chemistry Building, were also constructed in the early 2000s.
A second campus expansion called Charles Commons was completed in September 2006, is located across Charles St from Homewood, at 33rd Street between Charles and St. Paul Streets. The approximately 350000 sq ft (32,516.1 m²) development includes housing for approximately 618 students, with supporting amenity spaces; a central dining facility and specialty dining area with seating capacity
Seating capacity
Seating capacity refers to the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, both in terms of the physical space available, and in terms of limitations set by law. Seating capacity can be used in the description of anything ranging from an automobile that seats two to a stadium that seats...
of approximately 330; an approximately 29000 sq ft (2,694.2 m²) book store run by Barnes and Noble College Division.
The Decker Quadrangle development constituted the last large building site on the contiguous Homewood campus. Its first phase included a visitors and admissions center (Mason Hall), a computational sciences building (Hackerman Hall), and an underground parking structure, which together created a new quadrangle, south of Garland Hall, named in honor of Alonso G. and Virginia G. Decker. Construction was completed and the new buildings and quadrangle dedicated in 2008. Importantly, the project established a new public entrance for the campus and recognizes the potential for future growth of campus activities sited across Wyman Park Drive.
In early December 2008, the Trustees proposed the construction of a new library addition costing $30 million. The new structure, named the Brody Learning Commons, will augment the existing library, a 185000 square feet (17,187.1 m²) facility built in 1964 and partially renovated in 1998 that will for the most part not change. The building will feature a quiet reading room, 15 new group study rooms, a new atrium and a café. Ground was officially broken on June 6, 2010, with a scheduled completion date of July 2012.
The Space Telescope Science Institute
Space Telescope Science Institute
The Space Telescope Science Institute is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope and for the James Webb Space Telescope...
is located on the Homewood campus and controls, analyzes, and collects data from the Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle in 1990 and remains in operation. A 2.4 meter aperture telescope in low Earth orbit, Hubble's four main instruments observe in the near ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared...
.
The Johns Hopkins University, working with Collegetown Development Alliance, a joint-venture team composed of Struever Brothers, Eccles & Rouse and Capstone Development, recently teamed up to develop a mixed-use project featuring student housing, a central dining facility and a major campus book store.
Milton S. Eisenhower Library
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
principal research library and the largest in a network of libraries at Johns Hopkins. This network, known as The Sheridan Libraries, encompasses the Milton S. Eisenhower Library and its collections at the Albert D. Hutzler Reading Room in Gilman Hall (called "The Hut" by students), the John Work Garrett Library at Evergreen House and the George Peabody Library
Peabody Institute Library
The George Peabody Library, formerly known as the Library of the Peabody Institute, is the 19th century research library of The Johns Hopkins University. It is located on the Peabody campus at Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore, Maryland...
at Mount Vernon Place. Opened in 1964, the library was named for the university's eighth president, Milton S. Eisenhower
Milton S. Eisenhower
Milton Stover Eisenhower, served as president of three major American universities: Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University. He was the younger brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edgar N. Eisenhower, and Earl D...
, brother of former U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
, whose vision brought together the university's rich collection of books, journals and other scholarly resources.
The Eisenhower Library collection numbers over 2.6 million volumes and houses over 20,000 journal subscriptions. Strengths in the humanities include German and Romance Languages, Philosophy and the Ancient Near East. In science and engineering, collection strengths include biomedical engineering, chemistry and environmental engineering. The library also offers an extensive array of electronic resources, including full-text books and journals, specialized databases, and statistical and cartographic data. Only two of the MSE library's six stories are above ground, the rest are beneath. However, the architects designed the building so that every level has windows and natural light. The design accords with a bit of traditional campus lore which says no structure on campus can be taller than Gilman Hall, the oldest academic building.
Nichols House
The Nichols House is known as the President's House because, when designed, it was intended to become the residence of the university's president.Georgian architecture
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United...
structure and it was built in 1958. Its construction was funded with the proceeds from the sale of an off-campus building formerly used as the president's house, as well as a large gift from Thomas Nichols, university trustee and president of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Co. It was built to attract Milton S. Eisenhower
Milton S. Eisenhower
Milton Stover Eisenhower, served as president of three major American universities: Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University. He was the younger brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edgar N. Eisenhower, and Earl D...
to come to JHU. Eisenhower was its first resident in 1959, and it continues to house presidents. However, from 1971 to 1996, three presidents declined to occupy it, so it was used to house university guests and as administrative offices. Russian President Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of...
stayed there, and the house was used as a location during the filming of The Seduction of Joe Tynan
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
The Seduction of Joe Tynan is a 1979 American political film drama directed by Jerry Schatzberg and produced by Martin Bregman. The screenplay was written by Alan Alda, who also played the title role....
. Inl 1996, William R. Brody
William R. Brody
William Ralph Brody is an American radiologist and academic administrator. He is the President of the Salk Institute and former President of The Johns Hopkins University, a position which he had held from 1996 to 2009....
became the 13th president of the University and opted to once again live at Nichols House.
Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame
The Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of FameLacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame
The US Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame, located in Baltimore, Maryland, on the campus of Johns Hopkins University, is operated by US Lacrosse...
, maintained by US Lacrosse
US Lacrosse
US Lacrosse is the national governing body of men and women's lacrosse in the United States, primarily serving the youth game. It provides a leadership role in virtually every aspect of the game, boasts 63 chapters throughout the United States, and offers programs and services to inspire...
, is on the Homewood campus adjacent to the home field for the lacrosse teams, Homewood Field
Homewood Field
Homewood Field is the athletics stadium of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. It was built in 1906 and has an official capacity of 8,500 people. The name is taken, as is that of the entire campus, from that of the estate of Charles Carroll of Carrollton. It serves as the home...
. Johns Hopkins lacrosse teams have represented the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in international competition. At the 1928 Summer Olympics
1928 Summer Olympics
The 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam had bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, but had to give way to war-victim Antwerp, Belgium, and Pierre de...
in Amsterdam and 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics lacrosse demonstration events
Lacrosse at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Lacrosse was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Teams from Canada and the United States played three games, with the team from the United States winning the series 2 games to 1...
Hopkins represented the US and team members received Olympic Gold Medals. This was the only such accolade in the history of US college sports. They have also gone to Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
to win the 1974 World Lacrosse Championship
World Lacrosse Championship
The World Lacrosse Championship is the world championship for international men's field lacrosse. From its inception in 1967 through the 2006 event, it was sanctioned by the International Lacrosse Federation...
.