Burton-Judson Courts
General information
TypeDormitory
Location1005 E. 60th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637
United States
Coordinates41°47′09″N 87°36′03″W / 41.78577°N 87.600905°W / 41.78577; -87.600905
Construction started1930
Completed1931
Design and construction
Architect(s)Zantzinger, Borie & Medary
Website
official website

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

References

  1. ↑ Jay Pridmore, Peter Kiar (2 February 2006). The University of Chicago: an architectural tour. p. 106. ISBN 9781568984476. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
  2. ↑ "60th Street". Archived from the original on 2015-04-30. Retrieved 2010-08-03.
  3. 1 2 "Welcome to Burton-Judson Courts". Housing and Residence Life. The University of Chicago. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  4. ↑ photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu (1958). "Burton-Judson Courts". Retrieved December 5, 2012.
  5. ↑ Otis Webb Brawley and Paul Goldberg, How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America, p. 143
  6. ↑ University of Chicago 1951-1952 Student Address Book
  7. ↑ University of Chicago 1954-1955 Student Address Book
  8. ↑ University of Chicago 1994-1998 Student Address Book
  9. ↑ Michael Szenberg, Lall Ramrattan, eds., Reflections of Eminent Economists Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004, p. 333
  10. ↑ Ken Ono and Amir D. Aczel, My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count New York: Springer, 2016, p. 111
  11. ↑ University of Chicago 1980-1981 Student Address Book
  12. ↑ Carl Sagan: A Life
  13. ↑ University of Chicago 1953 Student Address Book
  14. ↑ "Here's How Bernie Sanders May be Changing Politics for Good | Mother Jones". Archived from the original on 2016-12-26. Retrieved 2015-09-15.
  15. ↑ Paul Cobley, John Deely, Kalevi Kull, eds., Semiotics Continues to Astonish: Thomas A. Sebeok and the Doctrine of Signs p. 469
  16. ↑ "An idea that stuck | Parents & Families | the University of Chicago". Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2012-10-22.
  17. ↑ George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life New Haven: Yale, 1999, p. 44


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