The architectural style of the campus follows the
Federal style of
Homewood House. Most newer buildings resemble this style, being built of red brick with white marble trim. Homewood House was later used for administrative offices but now is preserved as a museum. The space is organized in
quads around Gilman Hall. In 1997, the university purchased the vacant former building of the old all-girls
Eastern High School (founded 1844, building constructed 1938). Old EHS is a three-story high H-shaped building of red brick and limestone trim in
English Tudor revival architecture, on East 33rd St., one mile (1.6 km) east of the "Homewood" campus. It is immediately across the street from the former site of the old
Memorial Stadium of 1950, where the Major League baseball
Baltimore Orioles and the NFL pro football's
Baltimore Colts used to play. The former Eastern High building with its antique interior features was reopened in 2001, largely renovated and reconstructed, occupied by administrative offices for the
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. The university undertook a major renovation of the Homewood Campus in 2000–2002. 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, facing North Charles Street, 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 (decade). A second campus expansion, called Charles Commons, was completed in September 2006. It is located across North Charles Street from Homewood, at 33rd Street between Charles and St. Paul Streets. The approximately 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; and an approximately 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 were 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 to the west. In 2007, the university announced a $73 million renovation of Gilman Hall (named for the university's first president,
Daniel Coit Gilman), 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, the Brody Learning Commons, costing $30 million. The building features 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 completion date of July 2012. The
Space Telescope Science Institute is located on the Homewood Campus and controls, analyzes, and collects data from both the
Hubble Space Telescope and
James Webb Space Telescope. In 2006, Johns Hopkins University, working with Collegetown Development Alliance, a joint-venture team composed of Struever Brothers, Eccles & Rouse and Capstone Development, 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 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 (the library before Eisenhower was constructed, and informally called The Hut by students), the
John Work Garrett Library at
Evergreen House and the
Peabody Institute Library and adjacent public historic
George Peabody Library at
Mount Vernon Place, across from the
Washington Monument. Opened in 1964, the Eisenhower Library was named for the university's eighth and tenth president,
Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of former U.S. 34th President,
Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose vision brought together the university's rich collection of books, journals and other scholarly resources. The Eisenhower Library collection houses over 3.8 million volumes, 121,000 journal subscriptions and thirty miles of shelf space.
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. The house has a two-story
Georgian structure and it was built in 1958. 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. In 1996,
William R. Brody became the 13th president of the university and opted to once again live at Nichols House.
Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum The museum was founded in 1882. The collection is currently displayed in Gilman Hall, with renovation completed in 2010. The collection contains over 7,000 objects from ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, the Near East, and the ancient Americas. The museum also displays numerous items on loan, including 200 Egyptian artifacts from the
Eton College Myers Collection, Greek ceramics from the
Baltimore Museum of Art and an Egyptian mummy from
Goucher College.
Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame The
Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame, maintained by
US Lacrosse, was on the Homewood campus adjacent to the home field for the lacrosse teams,
Homewood Field, until 2016. 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.
Cordish Lacrosse Center Opened in 2012, the Cordish Lacrosse Center houses both the men's and women's lacrosse teams. The structure, which cost $10 million, was entirely funded by private investors, the largest of whom was former Johns Hopkins lacrosse player David Cordish. Cordish is viewed as both an asset to Johns Hopkins' lacrosse program as well as an asset to the recruitment process.
Shriver Hall Shriver Hall, designed by the firm of Buckler, Fenhagen, Meyer and Ayers, was begun in September 1952 and completed in 1954. In 1939
Alfred Jenkins Shriver, a local lawyer who specialized in estates and testaments, left the university the residue of his estate to build a lecture hall. According to the conditions of the will, the building's walls were adorned with murals depicting the Hopkins class of 1891 (Shriver's class), ten philanthropists of Baltimore, ten famous beauties of Baltimore (as chosen by Shriver), the early Hopkins faculties of philosophy and medicine, the original Boards of Trustees of the university and Hospital, and Baltimore clipper ships. In addition, statues of President
Daniel Coit Gilman and
William H. Welch, first dean of the School of Medicine, flank the entrance to the building. There is also a bust of
Isaiah Bowman in a niche under the porch. After a $14 million renovation to bring the hall up to date, the auditorium reopened in February 2019. Shriver Hall is the home of the Hopkins Symphony, a community orchestra that is made up of students and members of the wider community, and Shriver Hall Concert Series, which presents classical chamber music and recitals featuring nationally and internationally recognized artists. ==See also==