Burton–Judson Courts Explained
| Burton-Judson Courts |
| Location: | 1005 E. 60th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637
United States |
| Coordinates: | 41.7858°N -87.6009°W |
| Building Type: | Dormitory |
| Start Date: | 1930 |
| Completion Date: | 1931 |
| Architect: | Zantzinger, Borie & Medary |
Burton–Judson Courts (BJ) 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: Chamberlin, Coulter, Dodd-Mead, Linn-Mathews, Salisbury, and Vincent.[3] In addition to student rooms, the building contains a library, lounge rooms, and apartments for resident heads and the resident deans.[3] [4]
Notable residents
- Otis Brawley,[5] oncologist and executive vice president of the American Cancer Society.
- Misha Collins, actor.
- James W. Cronin,[6] Ok Nobel Prize–winning physicist and University of Chicago faculty member. Lived in Vincent House (room 415).
- Philip Glass,[7] Noted composer, lived in Coulter House.
- Tucker Max,[8] Noted blogger and "fratire" writer. Lived in Mathews House.
- Walter Oi,[9] academic and US government economist.
- Ken Ono,[10] mathematician. Lived in Dodd-Mead House.
- Santa J. Ono,[11] Immunologist, 15th President of University of Michigan and 28th President of University of Cincinnati, 15th President of University of British Columbia. Lived in Dodd-Mead House (room 141a).
- Richard Rorty, American Pragmatist.
- Carl Sagan,[12] [13] Noted astronomer. Lived in Dodd House (room 141).
- Bernie Sanders,[14] United States Senator from Vermont. Lived in Chamberlin House.
- Thomas Sebeok,[15] semiotician and linguist.
- Evan Sharp,[16] Co-founder and designer of Pinterest. Lived in Salisbury House.
- George Steiner,[17] 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.
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Book: The University of Chicago: an architectural tour. Jay Pridmore, Peter Kiar. 2 February 2006 . 106. 9781568984476 . 2010-03-23.
- Web site: 60th Street . 2010-08-03 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20150430140059/http://www.trishmorse.com/sixtieth.htm . 2015-04-30 .
- Web site: Welcome to Burton-Judson Courts . Housing and Residence Life . The University of Chicago . 14 October 2018.
- Web site: Burton-Judson Courts . photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu . 1958 . 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
- Web site: Here's How Bernie Sanders May be Changing Politics for Good Mother Jones . 2015-09-15 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20161226184002/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/bernie-sanders-president-change-politics . 2016-12-26 .
- Paul Cobley, John Deely, Kalevi Kull, eds., Semiotics Continues to Astonish: Thomas A. Sebeok and the Doctrine of Signs p. 469
- Web site: An idea that stuck Parents & Families the University of Chicago . 2012-10-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160307081844/https://parents.uchicago.edu/news/idea-stuck# . 2016-03-07 .
- George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life New Haven: Yale, 1999, p. 44
