Burton–Judson Courts

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
General information
Type	Dormitory
Location	1005 E. 60th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 United States
Coordinates	41°47′09″N 87°36′03″W
Construction started	1930
Completed	1931
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Zantzinger, Borie & Medary
Website
official website

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,^{[citation needed]} 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

• Housing at the University of Chicago

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. "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

External links

• Official website
• Guide to the University of Chicago Burton-Judson Courts Records 1929-2007 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center