Pictures of the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus
The Hopkins Homewood Campus is especially pretty in the fall. These are a set of pictures I’ve taken on an October day with a beautiful sunset. Find the full set of pictures here.
Upper (Keyser) Quadrangle. You can see the Gilman Hall in the background, the most recognizable building on our Georgian red-brick, white trim campus.
Hopkins was several campuses, but the largest and most important one (with the possible exception of the JHMI Campus) is the Homewood Campus at 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland. This houses the two major undergraduate schools: the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (KSAS) and the Whiting School of Engineering (WSE). Most of the engineering departments are centered around the lower quad, while the arts and sciences departments are centered around the upper quad, pictured above.
The Lower Quad
This is the lower quad, as visible from a breezeway that connects two buildings in the upper quad; you can estimate from this how small the campus is!
The Latrobe building is the leftmost building in the above picture of the lower quad, and houses, among others, the Civil Engineering department.
The side door to enter Latrobe. I like the ornamented door and the ambient light inside the building; this is one of the few buildings on campus that does not seem to be lit by fluorescent light.
Here’s another picture of Latrobe, taken from the lower quad.
Right across from Latrobe, is Maryland hall. This houses, among others, the departments of Biochemical Engineering, and Materials Science; it also has a few Computer Science offices, and the much loved Masters Lab.
Most of Computer Science however is housed in the New Engineering Building (NEB), which is attached to the building you can see here, Shaffer hall. This is one of the uglier buildings on campus; unlike the other heavily ornamented lower quad buildings, this has no porticos or columns. Unfortunately the opportunity to beautify this building when NEB was being constructed in the back of Shaffer was passed, and in their infinite wisdom, the architects decided to make matters even worse by making NEB look like a third rate shoe factory.
The Levering Quad
Levering houses the Student Union, a coffee shop that changes names every few semesters, as well as a food court in the lower level, that has gotten significantly better ever since Aramark took over Sodexho as the food service provider.
The Levering quad is located right behind the lower quad, and in fact, this picture is taken from the upper quad. Here you can see Latrobe on the left, and Levering hall on the right.
Hodson Hall houses all the technologically superior classrooms.
A lot of receptions at JHU take place at the Glass Pavilion, seen here hanging out between Levering Hall and Gilman Hall.
The upper quad
The upper quad was the original quad! The building in the back is Gilman and houses a lot of humanities, including most language departments.
This is Remsen Hall, which houses the chemistry department. This picture is taken from the steps of the Library.
Another shot of Remsen, with some of the grass on the upper quad visible.
Ames Hall, as seen from Gilman Hall.
The bell on the top of the tower goes off every 15 minutes and does the typical chime done by bell clocks of its size.
Gilman also houses the Hut reading room, which has these ornamented windows. From these windows you can see the Greenhouse, and beyond that, the Presidents Garden and Hopkins Club.
Hopkins Club
Hopkins Club is a private club for Alumni and Faculty; they’re located behind Gilman, next to the Nichols house, the official residence of the president of the University.
The president’s garden; you can see the Nichols house in the back.
Another shot of the Hopkins Club, on the way to the Freshman Quad.
This is a little patch of picturesque landscaping, between the Hopkins Club area and the New Chemistry Building.
The freshman quad
This is how you’d get to the dorms from the upper quad.
Homewood House is the oldest building on campus; it is the first thing you meet on the way from the library to the dorms. This is the house of Charles Carroll, one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. This now houses a museum.
The back of the Homewood house.
The freshman quad houses all of the freshman dorms. These are the Alumni Memorial Residences, or AMRs.
Another shot of the AMRs.
A newer addition to the quad is this mini-quad between the New Chemistry Building and Mudd Hall.
Mudd Hall has lots of biology labs.
Obiously this does not cover the whole JHU campus; notable omissions are, the sports center, the buildings on Saint Martin Drive and Wyman Park and the Mattin Center and the sophomore dorms, including the new Charles Commons. Perhaps I will post some pictures of that in the future.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Great pictures. You picked a great one to highlight as the first! Have you considered CC licensing them?
November 7th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Hey Con these pictures are really nice, they certainly are making me miss the days of Hollander!
December 3rd, 2006 at 12:13 am
Very well done!
December 3rd, 2006 at 3:30 am
nice pictures man.
March 6th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
I’m truly amazed. I’d honestly love to go to this school…oh wait I do… You must have caught the campus on a particularly good day. Great work!
March 7th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Well played, Con. Well played.
March 7th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Thanks for the good words guys. We really do have a very pretty campus, and I’m already a bit nostalgic.
Does anyone else have a good photo set? I’d love to post a link from here.
March 7th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Great pictures! I remember when the JHU campus master plan was being presented back in ‘99 it seemed like it would be nearly impossible to accomplish what they were proposing to do…your pictures are a good reminder that the campus really has gone through an amazing transformation since then.
March 27th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Some of the pictures taken at dusk should be used for promotional materials for the university, they are really nice!
May 4th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Some nice shots!
I hope you add pictures of the new quad and all the buildings on it when it’s done (or even before it’s done for some before & after shots.) Also check your historical facts about the homewood house, I think it was Carrol’s son who built it not the actual signer. I could be wrong though.
June 4th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Shalom Constantinos!
The pictures are beautiful. I was last at the Hop in June ‘79. (I relocated to Jerusalem.) They brought back a lot of fond memories of the place and the people. Thank you.
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:21 am
This was by far the best tour via pictures of John Hopkins I was able to find. Not too mention the pictures you took, compared to others of the exact same places, show the true beauty of this campus.
August 24th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
These are really nice pictures! I hope I get accepted to this university!
September 5th, 2007 at 1:42 am
Thanks for the beautiful pictures. I graduated from Hopkins in 1968 (!!), and although there are lots of improvements in the campus, it was a lovely place then, too…. Hopkins is not well understood by most people. It’s true that we all studied like crazy while we were there, but we experienced the real joy of learning and discovery. Seeing your pictures reminds me of how much I loved those years.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:00 am
I wandered that campus regularly from 1986 to about 1995 as a Political Science graduate student. These photos bring back very fond memories. I had lots of outstanding experiences, both academic and social, on that campus and in Charles Village in general. These photos bring me right back. Thanks. And by the way, to the point made above, the Carroll House was indeed built and occupied by the Declaration signer’s son, Charles Carroll Jr. However, his rich daddy signer father paid for the whole thing (and the kid apparently went way over budget in his requests!). While at Hopkins, I used to work there and give tours as a part time job, so I learned quite a bit about the place.
December 1st, 2007 at 7:17 pm
as an alum who really loved hopkins, these pictures are fabulous. they make me very nostalgic. good work!
December 26th, 2007 at 12:21 am
Great pictures~! The sky, the grass, and the colorful trees make the scene look fantastic!