Lemon Hall
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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.
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Lemon Hall, undated
An undated photograph of Lemon Hall (Jamestown South)
List of People Enslaved by the William & Mary, 1780
Lemon's name can be seen seventh from the bottom. | Source: List of Persons Enslaved by the College of William & Mary UA 339.
Lemon Hall & Hardy Hall, Circa 2011
A 2011 photograph of the Jamestown Residences, renamed to Lemon and Hardy Halls.