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Landrum Hall - 100 Years of Coeducation
Landrum Hall is a women's dormitory located west of Chandler Hall at 601 Landrum Drive (formerly Old Campus Road). The original plans included a large recreation room, a lounge and lobby on the first…
Lemon Hall - 50 Years of African Americans in Residence
Originally built as Jamestown South, Lemon Hall is located at 700B Landrum Dr. It was constructed alongside Hardy Hall (Jamestown North) in 2006 at the cost of $29 million. This project added 128,000…
James Blair Hall - 50 Years of African Americans in Residence
James Blair Hall, known as Marshall-Wythe Hall until 1968, is located on the west end of the Sunken. It currently houses the Departments of Philosophy and History, the National Institute of American…
Hardy Hall - 100 Years of Coeducation
Originally built as Jamestown North, Hardy Hall is located at 700A Landrum Dr. It was constructed alongside Lemon Hall (Jamestown North) in 2006 at the cost of $29 million. This project added 128,000…
Hardy Hall - 50 Years of African Americans in Residence
Originally built as Jamestown North, Hardy Hall is located at 700A Landrum Dr. It was constructed alongside Lemon Hall (Jamestown North) in 2006 at the cost of $29 million. This project added 128,000…
Chancellors Hall (formerly Tyler Hall) - 100 Years of Coeducation
Chancellors Hall is located at 300 James Blair Drive between James Blair Hall and Tucker Hall. Formerly known as Rogers Hall, Old Rogers Hall, and Chancellors Hall, it was renamed Tyler Hall in 1988…
Martha Wren Briggs Amphitheatre at Lake Matoaka
The Martha Wren Briggs Amphitheatre at Lake Matoaka sits on the edge of Lake Matoaka and primarily hosts concerts. In the past, the site has also been known as the Common Glory Stage, Matoaka Park,…
James Blair Hall - 100 Years of Coeducation
James Blair Hall, known as Marshall-Wythe Hall until 1968, is located on the west end of the Sunken. It currently houses the Departments of Philosophy and History, the National Institute of American…
Martha Barksdale Athletic Fields - 100 Years of Coeducation
Martha Barksdale Athletic Field is located at 501 Jamestown Road. It sits next to Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall and Rogers Hall (ISC 2) - at the corner of Jamestown Road and Landrum Drive. Barksdale…
Adair Hall
Adair Hall at 251 Ukrop Way is located near the intersection of Ukrop Way (formerly Campus Drive) and Landrum Drive.
Adair Hall houses an Olympic sized pool, lounge, gymnasium, dance studio,…
Lemon Hall
Originally built as Jamestown South, Lemon Hall is located at 700B Landrum Dr. It was constructed alongside Hardy Hall (Jamestown North) in 2006 at the cost of $29 million. This project added 128,000…
Tucker Hall - 50 Years of African Americans in Residence
First opened as the Library in 1909, Tucker Hall also housed the Law School. Since 1980, it's been the home of the English Department and the linguistics and Medieval-Renaissance programs.
The…
Cary Field
A year after Janet, Karen, and Lynn began their studies at the university, Warren Winston began his college football career at William & Mary in 1968. He was the university's first African American…
Western Union Building
The Western Union Building, which was built in 1930, is home to William & Mary's ROTC Program. Michael K. Powell, son of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, attended William & Mary on a ROTC…
Washington Hall
In the mid-twentieth century, Washington Hall was the home of William & Mary's education courses. This is where, during the summer of 1951, Hulon Willis Sr. began his master's degree and became the…
Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall
William & Mary prides itself of being the home of Greek letter organizations. Phi Beta Kappa's Alpha Chapter has called William & Mary its home since the honor fraternity's founding in December of…
Thomas Jefferson Statue
The statue of Thomas Jefferson was a gift from University of Virginia in 1992. Jefferson was a student at the university from 1760-1762 and his drawings of the Wren building aided the university in…
Wren Building - 50 Years of African Americans in Residence
William & Mary's long history with African Americans has evolved from enslavement to employment and racism to reconciliation.
Jefferson Hall, Constructed 1921
In the Fall of 1967 Janet Brown, Lynn Briley and Karen Ely began their freshmen year at William & Mary. They lived together in the newly renovated basement of Jefferson Hall. Unbeknownst to them, that…
Site of the Ku Klux Klan Flagpole
In 1926, William & Mary was gifted and accepted a flagpole by the Ku Klux Klan. The unveiling ceremony was allegedly attended by thousands of individuals, many of whom were members of the KKK…
The Bray School
The Bray School was run in the Dudley Diggs House and was originally located where Brown Hall stands today. The Bray School, which was named after Reverend Thomas Bray and operated by Anne Wager, was…
Phi Beta Kappa Hall
Home to William & Mary's Department of Theatre and Speech, Phi Beta Kappa Hall has played host to many notable female alumna and incredible performances.
Glenn Close '74 honed her acting skills at…
Muscarelle Museum of the Arts (Lamberson Hall)
When Doris Lamberson moved to Williamsburg in the mid-1970s, she was already a good friend of Thomas Graves, William & Mary's President at the time. She worked to update the President's House and is…
Martha Wren Briggs Amphitheatre at Lake Matoaka - 100 Years of Coeducation
The Martha Wren Briggs Amphitheatre at Lake Matoaka sits on the edge of Lake Matoaka and primarily hosts concerts. In the past, the site has also been known as the Common Glory Stage, Matoaka Park,…
Adair Hall - 100 Years of Coeducation
Adair Hall at 251 Ukrop Way is located near the intersection of Ukrop Way (formerly Campus Drive) and Landrum Drive.
Adair Hall houses an Olympic sized pool, lounge, gymnasium, dance studio,…
Jefferson Hall
William & Mary's first black residential students matriculated in 1967. Karen Ely, Janet Brown, and Lynn Briley - all women - lived together in the newly renovated basement of Jefferson Hall. Since…
Sorority Court - 100 Years of Coeducation
Sororities played a unique role in helping women matriculate into W&M after the university began accepting women in 1918. The Panhellenic sororities that have a presence at the university today -…
Wren Building - 100 Years of Coeducation
While the Wren Building has been a central focus since its opening in 1700, women have only been admitted since 1918, becoming the first coeducational institute of higher learning in Virginia. Despite…
Alan B. Miller Hall (Mason School of Business) - 100 Years of Coeducation
Alan B. Miller Hall is located at 101 Ukrop Way at the intersection with Jamestown Road. It is home to the Raymond A. Mason School of Business. The construction of Alan B. Miller Hall was the result…
Spring, Dedicated 1979
"Spring" is a sculpture by J. Seward Johnson that was installed at William & Mary in 1979. At some time prior to 1991, the letter held by the figure Tina in the sculpture was broken off.
A…