Burton–Judson Courts
| Burton-Judson Courts | |
|---|---|
 | |
| General information | |
| Type | Dormitory |
| Location |
1005 E. 60th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 United States |
| Coordinates | 41°47′09″N 87°36′03″W / 41.78577°N 87.600905°WCoordinates: 41°47′09″N 87°36′03″W / 41.78577°N 87.600905°W |
| Construction started | 1930 |
| Completed | 1931 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Zantzinger, Borie & Medary |
| Website | |
| official website | |
Burton–Judson Courts (B-J) is a dormitory located on the University of Chicago campus. The neo-Gothic style structure was designed by the Philadelphia architectural firm of Zantzinger, Borie & Medary, and was completed in 1931 at a cost of $1,756,287.[1]
Burton–Judson Courts is built around two courtyards that are named after the university's second and third presidents, Harry Pratt Judson and Ernest DeWitt Burton.[2] Burton-Judson contains six houses ranked in this order: Chamberlin, Dodd-Mead, Salisbury, Linn-Mathews, Coulter, and Vincent. In addition to student rooms, the building contains a library, lounge rooms, and apartments for resident heads and the resident masters.[3]
Notable residents
- Otis Brawley,[4] oncologist and executive vice president of the American Cancer Society.
- Misha Collins, actor.
- James W. Cronin,[5] Nobel Prize–winning physicist and University of Chicago faculty member. Lived in Chamberlin House.
- Philip Glass,[6] Noted composer, lived in Coulter House.
- Tucker Max,[7] Noted blogger and "fratire" writer. Lived in Mathews House.
- Walter Oi,[8] academic and US government economist.
- Ken Ono,[9] mathematician. Lived in Dodd-Mead House.
- Santa J. Ono,[10] Immunologist and 28th President of University of Cincinnati, 15th President of University of British Columbia. Lived in Mead House (room 141a).
- Carl Sagan,[11][12] Noted astronomer. Lived in Dodd House (room 141).
- Bernie Sanders,[13] United States Senator from Vermont. Lived in Chamberlin House.
- Thomas Sebeok,[14] semiotician and linguist.
- Evan Sharp,[15] Co-founder and designer of Pinterest. Lived in Salisbury House.
- George Steiner,[16] Literary and cultural critic.
- Nate Silver, Statistician and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight. Lived in Vincent House.
- Morgan Saylor, Actress. Lived in Dodd-Mead House.
- Rodrick Heffley, Musician. Lived in Dodd-Mead House.[17]
See also
References
- ↑ Jay Pridmore, Peter Kiar. The University of Chicago: an architectural tour. p. 106. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-30. Retrieved 2010-08-03.
- ↑ photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu (1958). "Burton-Judson Courts". Retrieved December 5, 2012.
- ↑ Otis Webb Brawley and Paul Goldberg, How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America, p. 143
- ↑ University of Chicago 1951-1952 Student Address Book
- ↑ University of Chicago 1954-1955 Student Address Book
- ↑ University of Chicago 1994-1998 Student Address Book
- ↑ Michael Szenberg, Lall Ramrattan, eds., Reflections of Eminent Economists Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004, p. 333
- ↑ Ken Ono and Amir D. Aczel, My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count New York: Springer, 2016, p. 111
- ↑ University of Chicago 1980-1981 Student Address Book
- ↑ Carl Sagan: A Life
- ↑ University of Chicago 1953 Student Address Book
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-12-26. Retrieved 2015-09-15.
- ↑ Paul Cobley, John Deely, Kalevi Kull, eds., Semiotics Continues to Astonish: Thomas A. Sebeok and the Doctrine of Signs p. 469
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2012-10-22.
- ↑ George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life New Haven: Yale, 1999, p. 44
- ↑ Guzman, Eric-Antonio. "Alumni Filmmakers Document Music Across Time and Space". The Chicago Maroon. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
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