Around Campus
Academic Facilities
William Smith Hall, named in honor of the College's founder, is the main classroom building. Known affectionately as "Bill Smith," the early twentieth-century building includes seminar rooms and larger classrooms, faculty offices, and the Norman James Theatre, a 164-seat auditorium used for symposia, films, and student recitals. Wireless access is also available.
Dunning Hall and the Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Laboratory Center, recently renovated, are part of a complex devoted to the sciences, and house state-of-the-art classrooms, labs, and offices for Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology.
The John S. Toll Science Center, is a 45,000 square foot, state-of-the-art classroom, office, and laboratory complex. The facility houses chemistry and biology labs, a 94-seat lecture hall, an environmental classroom, two seminar rooms, a penthouse greenhouse, and a dramatic threestory glass atrium. The atrium connects to the newly renovated Dunning Hall, and the Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Laboratory Center.
The Eugene B. Casey Academic Center is the heart of campus activity. The ground floor of the brick Georgian-style building is a grand concourse that opens onto the College's bookstore, student post office, and a common room for both faculty and students. The second floor includes a multipurpose forum, several seminar-size classrooms, and the Student Affairs Office. The third floor is home to the Office of Admissions and Student Financial Aid. Wireless access is also available. The landscaped Martha Washington Square adjoining the Casey Academic Center is a popular meeting place for students and faculty.
Daly Hall provides a mix of classrooms, seminar rooms, and faculty offices. Wireless access is available. The two-story brick structure, while traditional in appearance, features the latest in technology.
Louis L. Goldstein Hall combines faculty offices, classrooms, seminar rooms, labs, and a 75-seat lecture hall with 36 laptop computers. Wireless access is also available. The 23,000 square foot Flemish bond brick structure anchors the southern campus entrance.
Clifton M. Miller Library, built in 1970, is located in the center of campus. The building houses the library collection of more than 500,000 books, periodicals, newspapers, government documents, microform, and audiovisual resources, and is equipped with teaching classroom/computing lab, computing workstations, a multimedia center, the College archives, and a conference room. The campus network provides access to numerous electronic resources on- or off-campus and state-of-the-art technology enables students to use wireless laptops anywhere in the library. The Beck Multimedia and Technology Learning Center is located on the ground floor. The Center is equipped with Windows and Macintosh laptop computers, video editing workstations, digital video and digital still cameras, and DVD/VCR units. The Academic Skills office and the Math Center are also located in the library.
The Daniel Z. Gibson Performing Arts Center is scheduled for extensive renovation and expansion. When completed, the facility will house the 440-seat Tawes Theater, a 200-seat recital hall, a 175-seat experimental theater, an art gallery, offices, and teaching and support spaces for Music and Drama.
The Constance Stuart Larrabee Arts Center is home to the visual arts. Once a boiler plant, it has been imaginatively converted into a modern facility equipped with studios for painting, printmaking, and ceramics, as well as a woodworking shop, darkroom, exhibit space, and faculty offices.
The Rose O'Neill Literary House is the focal point for creative writing and literary activity. The renovated Victorian home contains a student study lounge, a paperback lending library, individual student writing rooms, gallery space for small art exhibitions, two Chandler and Price letterpresses and a Heidelberg Press. The offices of the Literary House Press and the Literary House's director and associate director are also located here.
Recreational Facilities
Cain Athletic Center is home court for both the men's and women's basketball and women's volleyball programs. The facility also houses offices for physical education faculty, the Director of Athletics, coaches, sports information and sports medicine; locker rooms; and the Athletic Hall of Fame.
The Eugene B. Casey Swim Center houses an indoor pool and is home to the men's and women's varsity swim teams. Non-varsity-level swimmers might try intramural water polo, take a course in scuba diving, or do a few leisurely laps during recreational swim hours.
The Lelia Hynson Boating Park located a short walk from campus on the Chester River, features a dramatically designed waterfront pavilion, the perfect vantage point for watching sailing and crew races.
The Truslow Boathouse, headquarters for the men's and women's crews, the sailing program, and other waterfront recreational activities, is located here.
The Benjamin A. Johnson Lifetime Fitness Center provides exceptional indoor practice space for varsity baseball, softball, lacrosse, tennis, field hockey, and soccer teams. In addition, the 56,000-square foot facility provides recreational space for individual and intramural activities and includes a recently renovated 4,200-square foot fitness center, a jogging track, a dance studio, squash and racquetball courts, locker rooms, offices for coaches, and classrooms.
Kibler Field/Roy Kirby, Jr. Stadium, home of the Shoremen lacrosse and soccer teams, has a new Field Turf artificial playing surface, a new track, and a spectacular new stadium. The stadium features open bleacher seating, team meeting rooms, a concession area, and an enclosed multipurpose room overlooking the field. Baseball action takes place on the adjacent Athey Field. Varsity practice fields and a varsity softball diamond are on the western end of campus.
The Ellen Bordley Schottland Tennis Center, one of the College's newest athletic facilities, provides a home for Washington College's nationally competitive tennis program.
Other Buildings
The Alumni House serves as a spot for alumni to meet and socialize when they return for a visit. Located adjacent to campus, the house features a lounge, the Alumni Council boardroom, and the offices of the Assistant Vice President for Alumni Relations and staff.
Brown Cottage offers distinguished guests of the College comfortable overnight accommodations and spacious living and dining areas for entertaining.
Bunting Hall houses the administrative offices of the College's President, the Provost and Dean, Advancement, College Relations, Institutional Research, and the Registrar.
The Custom House, located at the foot of High Street along the Chester River, recalls Chestertown's importance as a port of entry for Maryland's Eastern Shore. Constructed in the 1740s, the building features Flemish bond brickwork with glazed headers. This significant historical structure is one of very few of its type that survive from the colonial era. The historic Custom House serves as the principal offices of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and the Center for Environment & Society.
Foster House, at 409 Washington Avenue, houses the Business Office.
500 Washington Avenue houses the Human Resources offices.
Hodson Hall is the place to go for dining and relaxation. This space, under renovation Fall 2007 through Fall 2008, houses the student dining hall, a snack bar, a student study lounge, and a campus center equipped with video games, a wide-screen TV, performance space, a dance floor, and the Town Hall student center. Readings and lectures are often held in Hynson Lounge, which also doubles as a formal dining room.
The Hynson-Ringgold House is one of Maryland's beautiful eighteenth-century mansions, today used as the home of the College's President. Situated on Water Street in downtown Chestertown, it overlooks the Chester River.