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.
]]>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 square feet of new living space for 380 students - 180 in Lemon Hall.
In April 2016, the Board of Visitors voted unanimously to rename Jamestown South Lemon Hall in honor of Lemon, a man enslaved by William & Mary. The Lemon Project: A Journey for Reconciliation was established in 2009 to explore the role the university had with slavery and with race relations since the end of the Civil War. This renaming made Lemon and Hardy Halls the first buildings on named for people of color.
]]>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.
]]>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.
]]>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 square feet of new living space for 380 students - 180 in Lemon Hall.
In April 2016, the Board of Visitors voted unanimously to rename Jamestown South Lemon Hall in honor of Lemon, a man enslaved by William & Mary. The Lemon Project: A Journey for Reconciliation was established in 2009 to explore the role the university had with slavery and with race relations since the end of the Civil War. This renaming made Lemon and Hardy Halls the first buildings on named for people of color.
]]>Sorority Court is a complex of sorority houses located on Richmond Road with two houses facing Armistead Avenue. Opened in 1929, it has provided the residence for a limited number of Junior and Senior women.
The current sororities with houses here consist of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Chi Omega, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Delta, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Alpha Epsilon Pi. The Moncure and Bozarth houses are not occupied by sororities.
Since women were first admitted in 1918, sororities have always played a unique and pivotal role in the lives of women students. They were safe spaces at a time when there were few women in higher education. In the beginning, sorority housing was spread throughout the area. In the early 1920s, William & Mary began purchasing homes on Richmond Road to house sororities. Throughout the decade, additional nearby houses were acquired for sororities. When Kappa Alpha Theta arrived in 1928, it joined Chi Omega and Alpha Chi Omega in the Sorority Complex. In 1929, three new houses were built and occupied by Kappa Delta, Pi Beta Phi, and Alpha Chi Omega. These houses were the first on campus to have dining rooms, forever changing sorority life.
The national governing bodies of many sororities denied women of color the opportunity to join until the late 1960's. This aligned with the first African American students in residence at William & Mary in 1967. Despite this, Black women created 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. On April 7, 2013, nine women created 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; the sorority’s presence at the university continues to grow.
]]>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.
]]>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.
]]>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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