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Originally named the Douglass campus after our first
Dean, this area was renamed the Corwin Campus after Dean Margaret
Corwin in 1955 when the college's name was changed from the New
Jersey College for Women to Douglass College.
The small house system began at Douglass as a result
of these first "dormitory buildings", which were built as small
houses because the only way mortgages could be secured by Dean
Douglass was by an agreement in which small houses, easily resellable
to families if the college failed, were built in place of traditional
dorms. The small house system stuck.
Between 1922 and 1924, 25 houses and the lodge were
built. In 1925, 4 houses AA, BB, CC, and DD were built on land
originally reserved for lawns because of the demand for housing. |
