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Type
  
Dormitory

Opened
  
1931

Construction started
  
1930

Completed
  
1931

Phone
  
+1 773-702-5100

Burton–Judson Courts

Location
  
1005 E. 60th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 United States

Address
  
1005 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Architecture firm
  
Zantzinger, Borie & Medary

Similar
  
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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.

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. 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 and the resident masters.

Notable residents

  • Otis Brawley, oncologist and executive vice president of the American Cancer Society.
  • Misha Collins, actor.
  • James W. Cronin, Nobel Prize–winning physicist and University of Chicago faculty member. Lived in Chamberlin House.
  • Philip Glass, Noted composer, lived in Coulter House.
  • Tucker Max, Noted blogger and "fratire" writer. Lived in Mathews House.
  • Walter Oi, academic and US government economist.
  • Carl Sagan, Noted astronomer. Lived in Dodd House (room 141).
  • Bernie Sanders, United States Senator from Vermont. Lived in Chamberlin House.
  • John Scalzi, Science fiction author. Lived in Linn House.
  • Thomas Sebeok, semiotician and linguist.
  • Evan Sharp, Co-founder and designer of Pinterest. Lived in Salisbury House.
  • George Steiner, Literary and cultural critic.
  • Nate Silver, Statistician and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight. Lived in Chamberlin House.
  • References

    Burton–Judson Courts Wikipedia