Campus of the College of William & Mary
A campus for the college's Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) graduate school is located in Gloucester Point site.
[6] Some of the college's early funds were devoted to restoring a degraded Middle Plantation schoolhouse that likely hosted William & Mary's first classes.
Nicholson planned the city like he had at Annapolis, Maryland, and extended a nearly mile-long street named for the Duke of Gloucester from the College Building on its western terminus to the new Capitol (constructed 1701–1705).
Queen Anne donated £500, which was enough to clear the burnt remains of the building, and John Tullitt purchased the lumber rights to the college's properties for £2000.
In 1772, Thomas Jefferson drew a plan to expand the building and make it a complete quadrangle; pre-Revolution events stalled this project before much work was done.
[note 3] During the 1781 Yorktown campaign of the war, British general Charles Cornwallis occupied the President's House in June.
[26] Jefferson, who had graduated from William & Mary, referred to the college as "rude, misshapen pile" reminiscent of a brick kiln in his 1787 Notes on the State of Virginia.
[34] Rebuilt between 1867 and 1869, the College Building's walls had survived the previous fires which allowed their reuse in this "more sober" rebuilding that featured a wider center pavilion, no towers, and a small cupola.
[39] In the early 20th century, president Lyon Gardiner Tyler initiated a campaign to develop and expand the college's campus; in 1906, William & Mary had become a public university of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The subsequent growth required substantial fundraising, exemplified by Tyler financing the construction of a new library (built 1908–1909, now Tucker Hall) by raising $20,000 (equivalent to $678,222 in 2023) to attain a matching Carnegie Foundation donation.
This restoration began in 1905, but Goodwin hoped that a similar program could be adopted throughout the city as a means to teach visitors about the 18th century and to rekindle their Americanism.
The core campus of Virginia Commonwealth University, the institute's independent successor, comprises property purchased by Chandler and the Richmond division's director, H. H. Hibbs, between 1925 and 1929.
[64] Governor Linwood Holton pressed the college to convince the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) to relocate to William & Mary in the 1970s.
While the effort succeeded, the American Bar Association threatened to withdraw its accreditation of the William & Mary Law School if the college's facilities–particularly its library–were not improved.
The law school's dean, William Spong Jr., secured a site had a mile away from the main campus and adjacent to the new NCSC location.
In 2006, large residence halls were built on part of the Barksdale Fields in a style similar to other older dormitories along Landrum Drive.
[70] In 2010, the School of Education moved from Jones Hall to a newly constructed building on the former site of the Williamsburg Community Hospital along Monticello Avenue.
[71] The remaining 1940s lodges, with the exception of one housing a cafe, were torn down in 2016 to allow the construction of the McLeod Tyler Wellness Center.
[73] In April 2021, the college renamed a number of buildings, locations, and departments that had been named for racists in the wake of the George Floyd protests.
The Old College Yard at the west end of Duke of Gloucester Street comprises the Wren Building, Brafferton, and President's House.
[79] Though the two large residential buildings were abandoned and later demolished, the college's baseball team still plays at Plumeri Park at the Dillard Complex about three miles from main campus.
The building served as the fraternity house for Kappa Alpha Order before being modified as apartments let to faculty following the Second World War.
[100] The "Wren-ish" restored Wren Chapel, credited to Thomas Tileston Waterman, includes a mid 18th-century English chamber organ on loan from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Robinson and his junior partner John Binford Walford designed the dormitories Barrett, Chandler, Brown, Landrum, and Old Dominion Halls, which were built c. 1926–1930.
[116] Gate piers depicting William III and Mary II by sculptor Emil Siebern were intended for installation on College Corner, mirroring Ivy League entrances.
[125] A bronze statue by Gordon Kay of U.S. president and college alumnus James Monroe was installed in front of Tucker Hall in 2015.
[131] A campus stormwater pond, called the "Grim Dell" for its "dismal appearance", received a floating artificial wetland in 2012.
[138] The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, which publishes the William and Mary Quarterly, is located in the Swem Library's basement.
The Muscarelle Museum, the first campus building solely with private funds, features a colorful solar wall designed by Gene B.
[144][note 13] Portions of the College Woods were developed in the 1950s and 1960s as part of construction of New Campus and to remove losses caused by a beetle infestation.
