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 of a public-private partnership between William & Mary and the Business School Foundation. Seven years of planning, two years of building, and $75 million dollars came to fruition when the School of Business moved in during Summer 2009. Prior to the opening of the 163,000 sq. ft. Alan B. Miller Hall, the business school had occupied a number of buildings over the years, including portions of Blow Hall, Chancellors Hall (formerly Tyler Hall), Jones Hall, and the Old Gymnasium.

Originally taught within the Economics Department, the first business courses were taught during the 1919-1920 academic year. By 1930, the number of students enrolled in business classes numbered 556. In 1941, President John Stewart Bryan announced the creation of a new Business Administration Department. This new school allowed students to concentrate in different aspects of business including general business, foreign trade, insurance, marketing, banking, and finance.

Over a thousand students (625 undergraduate and 410 graduate students) moved into the LEED-Gold certified building. Alan B. Miller Hall was designed to be fully wired and data-ready at opening. During construction, the Mason School of Business maintained a YouTube channel “Rex Unplugged” documenting the build.

The School of Business has been the home to several enterprising and innovative alumnae who shaped the business world. 1982 graduate Beth Comstock rose through the ranks of TBS, NBC, CBS before becoming the Vice Chair of General Electric. Her accomplishments garnered her places on multiple Forbes lists of powerful women. Amy McPherson, MBA recipient, served as Marriott International’s President and Managing Director of Europe, being named one of the “Women Who Means Business” by Washington Business Journal.

The hall honors for Universal Health Services CEO Alan B. Miller, a trustee on William & Mary’s Endowment Fund, an Alumni Medallion recipient, a Clarke Medallion recipient, and, in 2014, an awardee of an honorary Doctorate of Public Service.

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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 this, women have held significant leadership roles here and across the country.

Initially, women students reported to separate chains of leadership. Additionally, women were restrained by rules that didn’t apply to their male classmates. For example, women had a curfew, dress codes, and were prohibited from driving in cars with male students. The first Dean of Women for this inaugural class was Caroline Francis Tupper.

William & Mary have had two women Chancellors since 1993. The first was former UK Prime Minister Lady Margaret Thatcher. In 2005, the first woman to sit on the US Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor, was appointed Chancellor; Her investiture occurred three months after her judicial retirement. Portraits of all Chancellors hang in the Wren Building.

In Spring of 2018, William & Mary announced their 28th president, Dr. Katherine Rowe. Her appointment made her the first female president. She began on July 1 and was formally inaugurated on February 8, 2019.

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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 - Alpha Chi Omega, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, and Phi Mu - were safe spaces for women on this campus in a time where there were few women in higher education. The national governing bodies of these chapters didn’t officially allow women of color to join until the late 1960's, while William & Mary didn't allow black students to live on campus until 1967. Today the chapters remain majority-white, but women of all races at the university have found sisterhood in these chapters.

Black women wanted to create spaces where they could support each other through sisterhood. Sororities in the “Divine Nine” created chapters at William & Mary. The Mu Upsilon Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated was founded at the university in 1976; the Nu Chi chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was founded in 1981; the Xi Lambda Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was founded 1982; the Sigma Lambda chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated was founded 2011 in but is no longer active at the university. Non-black women of color also carved out spaces to support each other while seeking sisterhood. On April 7, 2013, nine women joined forces to create the Beta Delta chapter of Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha, Incorporada, a Latin-based sorority. The Founding Mother Class of Delta Phi Omega Sorority, Incorporated, a South Asian-interest, multicultural sorority, was founded on November 6, 2016, and the sorority’s presence at the university is continuing to grow.

Today, all Panhellenic sororities as well as Delta Sigma Theta Inc. have houses in Sorority Court.

Women have sought to support one another from the very start of their presence on campus, and sororities have been one of the keys to that support. The university is the birthplace of Greek Life, and sororities have been a special place for women to expand their horizons and build meaningful, supportive relationships.

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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 then, African American representation at the university has increased to approximately seven percent of William and Mary’s undergraduate student body as of 2017.

In 2011, the three women were honored for the first time by the Hulon Willis Alumni Association during Homecoming Weekend. That same year the three were commemorated with a plaque which was placed in the basement of Jefferson Hall. Today the plaque can be found on the first floor of Jefferson.

Throughout the 2017-18 academic year, William & Mary commemorated 50 Years of African Americans in Residence with events around campus. During the 2017 Homecoming Parade, the Karen, Lynn and Janet served as the Grand Marshals. The same weekend, the women were presented with engraved bricks at William & Mary's Alumni House.

Janet Brown Stafer’s account of her experience as one of the three women who lived in Jefferson Hall can be found in Special Collection's oral history collection; “Historically, the responsibility for keeping men within the moral boundaries has somehow rested with women, by keeping the women in their place out of sight in the dorm locked away, was that helping to keep the men within their social moral boundaries? We were bearing that burden instead of putting the responsibility where it belonged with the men.”

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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, Matoaka Woods, Lake Matoaka Amphitheatre, or simply the Amphitheatre. The amphitheater was planned in 1946 on the site of an old boathouse and was intended to be used for colonial pageants in the summer and William & Mary functions during the academic year.

The Jamestown Corporation oversaw building the stage, dressing and prop rooms, and spotlight towers. Designed by architect Charles M. Major, the amphitheater opened in Summer 1947 with the production of The Common Glory which ran from July 17 to September 14.

In 1977, the lease with the Jamestown Corporation ended. Two years later, equipment was auctioned, while storage and dressing rooms were used by dance classes. In May 2006, a $7.6 million renovation began in cooperation with the Jamestown 2007 commemoration. Improvements include a new stage and seating area, ADA access ramps, and underground utilities. New buildings provided space for equipment and a ticket office/restroom. The project was completed in April 2007.

In April 2016, the Board of Visitors renamed the amphitheater in honor of Martha Wren Briggs ('55) for her commitment to the facility's restoration. Her support provided the necessary funds to restore the stage, dressing rooms, sound and lighting systems, seats and entrance area, as well as ensuring the facility is accessible to those with disabilities.

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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 credited with adding a separate silver closet to the residence.

The Muscarelle Museum of Art became a "major focus" in her life. The museum was built because President Graves was informed by Lamberson that a Georgia O'Keefe painting hung unprotected in a campus building. Lamberson was also one of the founding members of the volunteer council for the museum. Though the museum itself if named after Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle, the building itself was named in Doris Lamberson's honor.

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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 Phi Beta Kappa Hall. Close performed in several productions with the Department of Theatre, Speech, and Dance, including "Twelfth Night" and "Anything Goes". Close, a Theatre and Anthropology major, said, “A liberal arts education keeps you curious, it keeps you interesting.” Known for her performances in "101 Dalmations" and "Fatal Attraction", Close has three Emmy awards, three Tony awards, a Golden Globe, and six Oscar nominations.

Linda Lavin '59 is best known today for her lead role in the long running TV sitcom “Alice". As a student, Lavin starred in "Romeo and Juliet," "As You Like It" and many more productions. She was also a member of William & Mary's chapter of Theta Alpha Pi, national honor society that recognizes high achievement in theatre study and production. Upon her graduation from William & Mary in 1959 she had already received her Actors' Equity Association card.

More recently, William & Mary alumna Stephanie Szostak '94 starred in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, along side Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep.

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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 Field was dedicated on October 10, 1975. The field was designed as women's athletics fields for hockey, soccer, track, and tennis in the 1930s. Over the years, the field has evolved into a venue for intramural football and soccer by students.

In 2004, William & Mary began a plan to construct two residence halls on the site of Barksdale Field. Completed in 2006 at a cost of an estimated $29 million, the Jamestown Residences contain approximately 128,000 square feet of living space for students.

The field honors Martha Barksdale, she entered William & Mary in 1918 as a member of the first class to include women. She was elected the first president of the Women's Student Council, the first house president, the first "Miss William & Mary", and ended her distinguished and groundbreaking student career with an election to Phi Beta Kappa.

After graduation, Barksdale was hired to instruct in the newly established Department of Women's Physical Education, earning a Master's in 1929. Rising through the ranks, she served as acting chairman of the Women's Physical Education Department in 1944 and 1965, eventually teaching or playing nearly a dozen sports before retiring in 1966. In 1970 she received William & Mary's Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award,

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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 History & Democracy, University Counsel, and other administrative offices.

James Blair Hall was constructed by T.A. Loving for $175,250 with a Public Works Administration grant with American Walnut woodwork. Built between 1934-1935, it was intended to house the Marshall-Wythe School of Government and Citizenship. The first floor was designed to hold administrative offices (for the president, deans, bursar, business manager, registrar and treasurer), a large business office, conference room, two file rooms, record room, and two reception rooms. The second floor had 8 classrooms and 7 offices for faculty members, with similar plans for the third floor. The Administrative Offices moved into the building on July 1, 1935.

In 1936, the second and third floors were occupied by the departments of Economics, Government, History, Sociology, and the School of Jurisprudence. A dedication ceremony for the building was held in April 1937. In 1943, the Navy Chaplain's School on campus during World War II was located on the second floor. In 1959, a new phone system was installed for the campus and the equipment for the system was kept in the basement of the building. In 1962, the President's and Admissions offices moved to Ewell Hall.

In 1968, the building was renamed James Blair Hall, after the Law School moved into the old library building (known today as Tucker Hall).

As the home of the Law School, it was from James Blair Hall that William & Mary graduated its first African American student - Edward August Travis in 1954. Miriam Carter was the first African American woman to attend William & Mary when she was admitted to the Law School. The first African American woman to receive a degree was 1978 law graduate Sharon Coles-Stewart.

James Blair Hall was named for the Rev. James Blair, the first president at William & Mary, serving from its founding in 1693 until 1743.

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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 after U.S. President John Tyler and his son, William & Mary President Lyon Gardiner Tyler Sr. The first Tyler Hall was built in 1916 and is today the Reves Center. In 2021, the Board of Visitors approved reverting Tyler Hall back to its previous name of Chancellors Hall.

Chancellors Hall hosts the Departments of Government and Economics and the International Relations and Public Policy Programs. During its lifetime, it has been the academic hub for famous alumnae, such as White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki ('00), Ambassadors Shari Villarosa ('78) and Janet Sanderson ('77), Council of Economic Advisors Chair Christina Romer ('81), Securities and Exchanges Chair Mary Jo White ('70), and US Representative Dina Titus of Nevada ('77).

The building was planned as a science hall in memory of William Barton Rogers. In 1923, an application was made to the General Education Board for a donation of $150,000 to begin a campaign to raise $300,000 - $200,000 for building and $100,000 for equipment. In June 1924, the Board donated $100,000 contingent on the College providing the remaining $200,000.

"The Romance and Renaissance of the College of William & Mary in Virginia" (1924) includes a proposal for the construction of the William Barton Rogers Science Hall to replace the Penniman Building. A 1921 sketch of the proposed building by architect Charles M. Robinson is included.

In March 1926, plans were approved by the Board of Visitors for the building committee. The contract was awarded to Harwood Construction Company for $202,000. The cornerstone was laid August 28 by the Williamsburg Lodge of Masons (Flat Hat).

The building opened in Fall 1927, housing the chemistry, physics, and psychology departments.

A fire burned the roof, dormer story, and third floor of the building in 1930, causing $70,142 worth of damage. Temporary roofing was set up on the west end of the hall until June, ensuring classes could be held while construction continued on a permanent roof for the east side. A 1972 basement fire caused $30,000 in damage.

Chancellors Hall was used in 1975 to house the Development Office, the Metropolitan Criminal Justice Center, the National Center for State Courts, the Anthropology Department, the Adult Skills Program, and the Publication Office. It was renovated in Summer 1980 for the School of Business.

From 1975 - with the completion of the new Rogers Hall - until 1982, this building was known as Old Rogers Hall. The building was renamed Chancellors Hall in 1982 and dedicated as the business school on President's Day - February 5, 1982. Three years later, the basement was renovated to house the Professional Resources Facility, a research library, and office space. On June 24, 1988, the building was rededicated as Tyler Hall, with the former Tyler Hall becoming the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies. The Departments of History and Philosophy were previously housed in Chancellors Hall, while the English Department was in Chancellors before moving into the Wren Building and eventually into Tucker Hall. The School of Business left Chancellors Hall in July 2009, moving into its new home, Alan B. Miller Hall.

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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 square feet of new living space for 380 students - 200 in Hardy Hall. Within the residence are reading rooms, game rooms, and lounges.

In April 2016, the Board of Visitors voted unanimously to rename Jamestown North Hardy Hall in honor of the late Dr. Carroll FS Hardy, a former Associate Vice President of Student Affairs. She also founded STEP, a program to help underrepresented high school seniors develop math, writing, and study skills. She also established the Hulon Willis Foundation for African American students and alumni, worked to increase diversity of William & Mary's student body through six summer enrichment programs for students in grades 8 to 12, and helped create and support 15 multicultural student organizations at William & Mary.

This renaming made Lemon and Hardy Halls the first buildings on campus named for people of color.

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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 floor, an elevator, and the capacity to house 185 women. The college awarded a contract of $669,730 to C.L. Lewis and Company of Lynchburg in 1957 for its construction. It was completed in 1958, housing 217 freshman women in double rooms with adjoining suite bathrooms.

Landrum Hall has suffered a series of floods throughout its history - most notably in 1961, 1982, and 1987. It was renovated last in 2019.

It is currently co-ed and is home to the Eco House, a special interest house dedicated to the environment and environmentally friendly living. Each floor has a lounge area, while retaining the original parlor on the first floor and the large lounge in the basement.

The Board of Visitors decided to name the building for Grace Warren Landrum - the Dean of Women, and a professor of English from 1927-1947, and member of Phi Beta Kappa and the AAUW. The dedication ceremony was held on February 9, 1959.

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Affectionately known as “the soul of the college,” the Sir Christopher Wren Building is often shortened to either the Wren Building or the College Building. The oldest collegiate building still in use in the country, the Wren Building is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. Built between 1695-1700, its construction began before Williamsburg was founded and while Jamestown was the capital of the Colony of Virginia.

The Wren Building anchors the Historic Campus and remains a vital part of William & Mary - containing the Great Hall, the Wren Chapel, numerous graves, classrooms, offices, and the Department of Religious Studies.

Atop the Wren, a weathervane displays a metallic 1693 banner - the founding date of the second oldest university in the U.S.

The Historic Campus - the Wren Building, the Brafferton, the President’s House, and the Wren Yard - sits at the heart of 300+ years of education. Within the walls of Wren, generations of students have attended classes, eaten meals, recited prayers, and reveled in celebratory events. The north wing contains the Great Hall, while the south wing includes the Chapel.

As described by William & Mary professor Hugh Jones in 1724: "The Building is beautiful and commodious, being first modeled by Sir Christopher Wren, adapted to the nature of the country by the gentlemen there."

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The Brafferton Building, located on the south side of the Wren Yard and southeast of the Wren Building, was built by William & Mary in 1723. It was originally used as an Indian School and believed by some to be the first of its kind in America. Its intent was to educate and prepare Native American boys for the Anglican priesthood, an endeavor that met with little success. Today it houses the President’s and Provost’s Offices.

Funds for the construction came from the estate of English scientist Robert Boyle in the form of profits from the Brafferton Estate in Yorkshire, England. After the Revolutionary War, English funding ceased to come in and the Indian School was closed. In 1865, the Brafferton served as the office and quarters of the commanding officer of the Union garrison in Williamsburg. And in the spring of that year, it was also used as part of the Union defensive works after a raid of troops under John Singleton Mosby.

Throughout the years, the Brafferton has also served as a residence for professors, a dormitory for students, an armory for the Wise Light Infantry, the Alumni Association office, and even the Music Department. Hot and cold running water was installed in 1912, and in 1918, it became the headquarters for the Students' Army Training Corps. Its functions continued to change throughout the 1920s: Business Administration office (1920), Dean's, Registrars, and College Physician's offices (1921), Flat Hat office (1922), President's and Treasurer's offices (1922). It was restored 1931-1932 and has been the home of the President's Provost's offices since 1985.

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The President's House, located northeast of the Wren Building and facing the Brafferton, was built in 1732 and has been used by every William & Mary president. It is the oldest university president's house in the United States.

In 1781, during the American Revolution, the President's House served as Cornwallis's headquarters. It accidentally burned while occupied by French troops before the Battle of Yorktown and was rebuilt with money from French king Louis XVI. In 1862, during the Civil War, the house was used for various purposes including as Federal Headquarters for the area. After a raid by Confederate General Mosby's men on Union troops in Williamsburg, defensive works were thrown up by the Federal troops across the Old Campus in the spring 1865. The President's House was used in these works and some of its windows and doors were bricked up and loopholed.

The house has undergone a number of renovations in its history. From 1928-1931, the President's House, along with the Brafferton and the Wren Building, were restored to their colonial appearance as part of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s restoration of Williamsburg. The kitchen building was reconstructed for use as the President's study and library. The garage built by President Benjamin Ewell remained as a fire house. A new small, frame building was built near the kitchen for storing tools and fire apparatus.

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Ewell Hall, originally called Phi Beta Kappa Hall, is located on Old Campus at 221 Jamestown Road, across the Sunken Garden from Tucker Hall. It served as a memorial to the Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) academic honor society founded by five students at William & Mary in 1776. (The Phi Beta Kappa Society grew into a prestigious national honor society which persists to this day.) The plans to construct the first Phi Beta Kappa Hall were proposed by President Julian A. C. Chandler in 1919, approved by the Board of Visitors in 1923, and executed beginning in December 1924. Opened in 1926, to mark the 250th anniversary of PBK’s founding, the building held assembly space, an auditorium, guest rooms for members of PBK, and two rooms important to the history of PBK: a recreation of the Apollo Room at the Raleigh Tavern where the organization held its first meetings, and the Francis Phelps Dodge Room, named for a benefactor of the society.

Phi Beta Kappa Hall was part of the expansion of campus after William & Mary admitted women in 1918 and began to plan a modern campus to meet the needs of a new model of co-education. The ensemble of buildings planned by architect Charles M. Robinson and landscape architect Charles F. Gillette situated a core of six academic buildings and six residential halls connected by unifying landscape features. This is one of only three buildings not designed by Robinson in executing his new campus plan. Instead, architects John Kevan Peebles and Finlay Forbes Ferguson designed the building. The cornerstone for the building was laid on June 3, 1925, and the building was dedicated on November 27, 1926.

Throughout the years the building has housed, among other things, a movie theater, a radio station, converted women’s dormitory rooms, and the National Office of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave $250,000 to William & Mary in 1954 for the reconstruction of PBK Hall after a fire on December 29, 1953. The Music Department moved into the north wing in 1955 from its former location in the Williamsburg Methodist Church, and an addition to the department was virtually completed by 1958. The building was renamed Ewell Hall in 1957, when the Phi Beta Kappa name and memorial moved to a new auditorium building further west on Jamestown Road. It has since housed the music department and main administrative offices for Arts & Sciences, with the addition of various wings to accommodate the university’s ever-growing need for space.

Since 1859, different buildings have been named on campus for Benjamin Ewell. The first Ewell Hall – the old College Hotel on the south side of Jamestown Road – was purchased by William & Mary in 1859 to serve as student housing. When Benjamin Ewell died in 1894, the hotel was renamed in his honor. When that building was torn down in 1927, the name Ewell Hall moved to a science building that stood on the north side of campus until 1932.

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Washington Hall is an academic building located along the south side of the Sunken Garden between Ewell Hall and McGlothlin-Street Hall. It is named in honor of George Washington, who received his surveyor's license from the university in 1749 and served as William & Mary’s first American Chancellor from 1788-1799.

Washington Hall, which currently houses the Modern Languages Department, was constructed in 1928 as part of a larger developmental plan that involved greater overall expansion. As such it is a ‘companion’ to the then Rogers Hall (present-day Tyler Hall), which stands directly opposite across the Sunken Garden. Construction cost was $200,000, and Washington Hall originally included a biology lab on the first floor and liberal-arts classrooms on the second and third floors. In addition to large lecture halls (for 100-280 students) on each floor, the building also housed the offices of the deans and registrar. Charles M. Robinson designed the building and J. W. Davis of Newport News was awarded the contract. Construction was completed in time for spring classes in 1929.

Washington Hall is also home to the Institute of Historical Biology.

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Dedicated on October 27, 1995, McGlothlin-Street Hall was first named Tercentenary Hall for William & Mary's 300th birthday celebration in 1993. Built at a cost of $9.5 million, the four-story structure occupies a site along the historic Sunken Garden and completed the 1925 master plan of buildings on "Old Campus". Situated across the Sunken Garden from Blair Hall, the building houses the Geology, Computer Science and Applied Sciences departments. It was the first new science building at William & Mary since William Barton Rogers Hall was completed in 1975.

In September 1997, Lady Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Chancellor of William & Mary, was the principal speaker at the rededication of the McGlothlin-Street Hall. The building was renamed to honor James McGlothlin (class of 1962, 1964), Chairman and CEO of The United Company of Bristol, Virginia, a former member of the Board of Visitors; and Nicholas Street, a member of the Board of Visitors.

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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 History & Democracy, University Counsel, and other administrative offices.

James Blair Hall was constructed by T.A. Loving for $175,250 with a Public Works Administration grant with American Walnut woodwork. Built between 1934-1935, it was intended to house the Marshall-Wythe School of Government and Citizenship. The first floor was designed to hold administrative offices (for the president, deans, bursar, business manager, registrar and treasurer), a large business office, conference room, two file rooms, record room, and two reception rooms. The second floor had 8 classrooms and 7 offices for faculty members, with similar plans for the third floor. The Administrative Offices moved into the building on July 1, 1935.

In 1936, the second and third floors were occupied by the departments of Economics, Government, History, Sociology, and the School of Jurisprudence. A dedication ceremony for the building was held in April 1937. In 1943, the Navy Chaplain's School on campus during World War II was located on the second floor. In 1959, a new phone system was installed for the campus and the equipment for the system was kept in the basement of the building. In 1962, the President's and Admissions offices moved to Ewell Hall.

In 1968, the building was renamed James Blair Hall, after the Law School moved into the old library building (known today as Tucker Hall).

As the home of the Law School, it was from James Blair Hall that William & Mary graduated its first African American student - Edward August Travis in 1954. Miriam Carter was the first African American woman to attend William & Mary when she was admitted to the Law School. The first African American woman to receive a degree was 1978 law graduate Sharon Coles-Stewart.

James Blair Hall was named for the Rev. James Blair, the first president at William & Mary, serving from its founding in 1693 until 1743.

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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 after U.S. President John Tyler and his son, William & Mary President Lyon Gardiner Tyler Sr. The first Tyler Hall was built in 1916 and is today the Reves Center. In 2021, the Board of Visitors approved reverting Tyler Hall back to its previous name of Chancellors Hall.

Chancellors Hall hosts the Departments of Government and Economics and the International Relations and Public Policy Programs. During its lifetime, it has been the academic hub for famous alumnae, such as White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki ('00), Ambassadors Shari Villarosa ('78) and Janet Sanderson ('77), Council of Economic Advisors Chair Christina Romer ('81), Securities and Exchanges Chair Mary Jo White ('70), and US Representative Dina Titus of Nevada ('77).

The building was planned as a science hall in memory of William Barton Rogers. In 1923, an application was made to the General Education Board for a donation of $150,000 to begin a campaign to raise $300,000 - $200,000 for building and $100,000 for equipment. In June 1924, the Board donated $100,000 contingent on the College providing the remaining $200,000.

"The Romance and Renaissance of the College of William & Mary in Virginia" (1924) includes a proposal for the construction of the William Barton Rogers Science Hall to replace the Penniman Building. A 1921 sketch of the proposed building by architect Charles M. Robinson is included.

In March 1926, plans were approved by the Board of Visitors for the building committee. The contract was awarded to Harwood Construction Company for $202,000. The cornerstone was laid August 28 by the Williamsburg Lodge of Masons (Flat Hat).

The building opened in Fall 1927, housing the chemistry, physics, and psychology departments.

A fire burned the roof, dormer story, and third floor of the building in 1930, causing $70,142 worth of damage. Temporary roofing was set up on the west end of the hall until June, ensuring classes could be held while construction continued on a permanent roof for the east side. A 1972 basement fire caused $30,000 in damage.

Chancellors Hall was used in 1975 to house the Development Office, the Metropolitan Criminal Justice Center, the National Center for State Courts, the Anthropology Department, the Adult Skills Program, and the Publication Office. It was renovated in Summer 1980 for the School of Business.

From 1975 - with the completion of the new Rogers Hall - until 1982, this building was known as Old Rogers Hall. The building was renamed Chancellors Hall in 1982 and dedicated as the business school on President's Day - February 5, 1982. Three years later, the basement was renovated to house the Professional Resources Facility, a research library, and office space. On June 24, 1988, the building was rededicated as Tyler Hall, with the former Tyler Hall becoming the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies. The Departments of History and Philosophy were previously housed in Chancellors Hall, while the English Department was in Chancellors before moving into the Wren Building and eventually into Tucker Hall. The School of Business left Chancellors Hall in July 2009, moving into its new home, Alan B. Miller Hall.

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Tucker Hall was opened in 1909 as the Library. Expanded greatly in 1923 and 1929, it has served several functions throughout its history. The first building solely dedicated as a library, it also served as a dance hall and an airplane spotting tower during World War II. It remained the Library until 1966 upon the opening of the Swem Library. It then housed the Law School and was renamed Marshall-Wythe Hall in 1968. A dozen years later, the Law School moved, and was replaced by the English Department and the Linguistics and Medieval-Renaissance programs. It was then that it was renamed Tucker Hall.

Tucker Hall honors St. George Tucker, a Virginia Supreme Court Justice, federal judge, and the second law professor at William & Mary - succeeding his mentor George Wythe.

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The Sunken Garden, sometimes referred to as the Sunken Gardens, is an open area for the relaxation and recreation of our students. It is located to the rear of the Wren Building, running southwest.

Architect Charles M. Robinson first designed the Sunken Garden in the early 1920s, reportedly based on the gardens of the Chelsea Hospital in England, designed by Sir Christopher Wren. The idea was delayed at this point due to budget concerns, but reconsidered in 1933 at the recommendation of President Julian A. C. Chandler. At this time, a Civilian Conservation Corps Camp had been assigned to William & Mary for the purpose of beautifying and improving the grounds. The renowned landscape architect, Charles F. Gillette was employed to supervise the work, which was executed in 1935 and 1936.

A number of events are held in the Sunken Garden, including dances, picnics, receptions, concerts, and the student body’s Last Day of Classes celebration.

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The statue of Lord Botetourt that currently stands in front of the Wren Building is a 1993 reproduction of the original located on the ground floor of Swem Library. One of the traditions at William & Mary is to dress up the statue for the holidays, such as hanging a wreath on the statue's outstretched hand. From the 1920s to the 1970s, campus tradition dictated that all freshman had to salute Lord Botetourt as they passed the statue.

Lord Botetourt was a figure so revered by Virginians that they erected a statue in his memory which stood first at the Old Capitol building and then was purchased by William & Mary in 1801. Barring a brief period during the Civil War when it was kept in the Public Asylum for safety, it stood in the Wren Yard until 1958, when it was removed to protect it from the elements. In 1966 it was installed on the ground floor of the newly erected Earl Gregg Swem Library. A bronze replica by Gordon Kray, class of 1973, was installed in the Wren Yard in 1993.

Who was Lord Botetourt?

Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt (1718-1770), was governor of the Virginia colony from 1768 to 1770. He was also a member of the Board of Visitors. Previously he had been a member of parliament for Gloucestershire, England, 1741-1763. He died suddenly while still in office and was buried in the crypt under the chapel in the Wren Building. He had the reputation of being a generous, courteous, and sympathetic gentleman and was greatly loved by his constituents. Today, the top prize given to a graduating senior for scholarship is the Lord Botetourt Medal.

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In recognition of the lasting ties between the Tyler family and William & Mary that span three centuries, a garden was dedicated at the university on April 30, 2004 just west of James Blair Hall.

The Tyler Family Garden includes bronze busts of three members of the family – Lyon Gardiner Tyler, who served as the 17th president of William & Mary from 1888-1919; his father, the 10th U.S. President, John Tyler, who served as rector and chancellor of the university; and Lyon Gardiner Tyler’s grandfather, John Tyler, Sr. who served as the 15th governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The Tyler Family Garden is part of an endowment gift from Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Ruffin Tyler, son of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, to William & Mary’s history department. The garden is located outside James Blair Hall which houses the history department, now named the Lyon Gardiner Tyler Department of History.

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The Reverend James Blair (1655-1748) was the founding president of William & Mary. A statue of James Blair was installed between Tyler Hall and Blair Hall during Homecoming Week 1993 as part of the William & Mary’s Tercentenary celebration. The statue was sculpted by Lewis Cohen, professor of art and art history at William & Mary.

James Blair was born in Scotland and educated at Marischal College (University of Aberdeen) and the University of Edinburgh where he received a Master of Arts. Blair was president of the university from its founding in 1693 until his death on April 18, 1743. While president of William & Mary, Blair also served as rector of Bruton Parish Church. As commissary of the Bishop of London, James Blair had a tremendous influence on the established Virginia church.

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The statue of William & Mary alumnus Thomas Jefferson was given to the university by the University of Virginia to celebrate the connection between the two institutions and to settle an old debt. Jefferson attended William & Mary from 1760 to 1762 and was a member of the board of visitors. In 1819, he helped to establish the University of Virginia. Before he died, Jefferson took out a $17,000 loan from William & Mary to settle his debts but was unable to pay it back before he died, a factor in the university going bankrupt in 1880 and forced to shut its doors. University of Virginia President John T. Casteen, III hoped the debt would be forgiven with the donation of the statue.

The statue was dedicated in 1992 as part of William & Mary's Tercentenary celebration and was placed between Washington and Tercentenary Hall (later renamed McGlothlin-Street Hall). The statue was created by Lloyd Lillie, a professor at Boston University.

William & Mary’s Jefferson statue is frequently dressed up for holidays and special events as is the statue of Lord Botetourt.

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Jefferson Hall, constructed between 1920 and 1921, was built as a women’s dormitory and today houses co-ed undergraduate upperclassman located on Old Campus. The dorm is named for Thomas Jefferson, class of 1762.

The dormitory opened in September 1921 and contained a gymnasium, pool, parlors and apartments for the director of women and for female teachers and rooms for 125 female students. The gymnasium was used for functions such as dances and basketball games and was available to both men and women from 1922 to 1925 while Blow Hall was being built. The iron gates from the Capitol Building in Richmond, erected in front of Jefferson Hall facing Jamestown Road, were given by the D.A.R. as a memorial to Kate Waller Barrett and dedicated on April 30, 1926.

The first African-American co-eds in residence at William & Mary lived in the basement of Jefferson Hall in 1965. Jefferson Hall underwent renovations in the late 1970s to add more dorm rooms and was destroyed by fire on January 20, 1983, but the outer walls remained standing. The residence hall officially reopened on January 27, 1985, and was fully occupied by undergraduate students.

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Barrett Hall, 313 Jamestown Road, is located at the eastern intersection of Jamestown Road and Landrum Drive (formerly Old Campus Drive). Originally a dormitory for women, Barrett Hall became co-ed at the start of the 2005-2006 academic year.

Designed by College Architect Charles M. Robinson and built by J.T. Nuckols, Barrett Hall was constructed between 1926 and 1927.

In addition to students, it housed the J. Lesslie Hall Literary Society in the 1920s and a library run by the Y.W.C.A. in the 1930s. In 1945, the university opened a Chinese Room following a donation by Alice Aberdein of a large number of Chinese art and furnishings valued at over $40,000. Containing the finest collection of Chinese art and furnishings in the southern United States, students in search of good luck tossed pennies at the feet of a gold-leafed Buddha statue featured in the room.

Barrett Hall honors Kate Waller Barrett, the second woman to serve on the Board of Visitors. A prominent member in Virginia political and social circles, Barrett was a member in Phi Beta Kappa.

Barrett Hall was the first building on campus named after a woman.

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Chandler Hall is a dormitory located between Kate Waller Barrett Hall and Grace Warren Landrum Hall. The dormitory is currently co-ed but originally functioned as a women’s dorm. Upon construction, it completed the trio of women’s dorms which included Jefferson Hall and Kate Waller Barrett Hall; arcades were constructed to connect the three buildings. The dorm is named for J. A. C. Chandler, president of William & Mary from 1919-1934. Chandler oversaw the expansion of the university from a small, struggling liberal arts university for men to a modern coeducational institution of higher learning.

In 1930, plans were presented to the Board of Visitors for a third women's dormitory to accommodate approximately 150 women in double and single rooms with suites and kitchenettes. William & Mary architect Charles M. Robinson designed the dormitory, which opened for use in the summer of 1931 and housed summer school students. The second and third floors of the building were available for sororities to use as well. For the 2014-2015 academic year, Chandler Hall underwent a massive renovation project to update the dorm.

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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 floor, an elevator, and the capacity to house 185 women. The college awarded a contract of $669,730 to C.L. Lewis and Company of Lynchburg in 1957 for its construction. It was completed in 1958, housing 217 freshman women in double rooms with adjoining suite bathrooms.

Landrum Hall has suffered a series of floods throughout its history - most notably in 1961, 1982, and 1987. It was renovated last in 2019.

It is currently co-ed and is home to the Eco House, a special interest house dedicated to the environment and environmentally friendly living. Each floor has a lounge area, while retaining the original parlor on the first floor and the large lounge in the basement.

The Board of Visitors decided to name the building for Grace Warren Landrum - the Dean of Women, and a professor of English from 1927-1947, and member of Phi Beta Kappa and the AAUW. The dedication ceremony was held on February 9, 1959.

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