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

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.