Burton–Judson Courts
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| Burton-Judson Courts | |
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| 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 |
Burton–Judson Courts (B-J/The Beej) 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: Dodd-Mead, Salisbury, Linn-Mathews, Coulter, Chamberlin, and Vincent. In addition to student rooms, the building contains a library, lounge rooms, and apartments for resident heads.[3]
Notable residents [edit]
- Carl Sagan[4][5] Noted astronomer. Lived in Dodd House (room 141).
- James W. Cronin[6] Nobel prize winning physicist and University of Chicago faculty member. Lived in Chamberlin House.
- Philip Glass[7] Noted composer, lived in Coulter House.
- Tucker Max[8] Noted blogger and fratire writer. Lived in Mathews House.
- George Steiner[9] Literary and cultural critic.
- Evan Sharp[10] Founder and Designer of Pinterest.
- Walter Oi,[11] academic and US government economist.
- Otis Brawley,[12] oncologist and executive vice president of the American Cancer Society.
- Thomas Sebeok,[13] semiotician and linguist.
References [edit]
- ^ Jay Pridmore, Peter Kiar. The University of Chicago: an architectural tour. p. 106. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
- ^ http://www.trishmorse.com/sixtieth.htm
- ^ photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu (1958). "Burton-Judson Courts". Retrieved December 5, 2012.
- ^ Carl Sagan: A Life
- ^ University of Chicago 1953 Student Address Book
- ^ University of Chicago 1951-1952 Student Address Book
- ^ University of Chicago 1954-1955 Student Address Book
- ^ University of Chicago 1994-1998 Student Address Book
- ^ George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life New Haven: Yale, 1999, p. 44
- ^ https://parents.uchicago.edu/news/idea-stuck/
- ^ Michael Szenberg, Lall Ramrattan, eds., Reflections of Eminent Economists Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004, p. 333
- ^ Otis Webb Brawley and Paul Goldberg, How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America, p. 143
- ^ Paul Cobley, John Deely, Kalevi Kull, eds., Semiotics Continues to Astonish: Thomas A. Sebeok and the Doctrine of Signs p. 469
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