Homewood campus
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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. Among Hopkins has several campuses of the Johns Hopkins University, the Homewooed 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.
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[edit] History
The original campus of the University was in downtown Baltimore. 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 estate of Charles Carroll of Carrollton and Homewood House, a wedding gift from Charles to his son Charles Jr, in 1902. This led to the actual park-like main campus of Hopkins, Homewood, set on 140 acres (0.57 km²) in the north Baltimore neighborhood of Charles Village.
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, with ties but 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, we find the Evergreen House, one Hopkins' museums.
[edit] Architecture
The architecture was modeled after the Georgian-inspired Federalist style 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 include:
- Gilman Hall, designed by Douglas Thomas, was the first major academic building. Based upon Homewood House, it began 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 university.
- Milton S. Eisenhower Library, the main university library.
- The Botanical Gardens, now known as the Decker Gardens, are bordered by the Greenhouse, the Nichols House and the Johns Hopkins Club. They were used by members of the Department of Biology to grow plants for research but, 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.
[edit] Art
The southeast part of Homewood houses the Baltimore Museum of Art. Inside the campus, we find can find some statues of interest like the Sea Urchin, sculpted by Edward Berge or the Johns Hopkins Monument (1935) and the Sidney Lanier Memorial (1941), located along Charles Street, by Hans Schuler.
