Campus Morehouse College



graves hall, century campus, , mays tomb.



kilgore campus center.



historic chapel bell outside of sale hall.



archer hall, named after fifth president of morehouse college, samuel h. archer, holds college s recreational facilities such gymnasium, swimming pool, , game room. gymnasium seats 1,000 people , used college s basketball team before franklin forbes arena built.
b. t. harvey stadium/edwin moses track 9,000-seat stadium built in 1983. track named after alumnus win olympic gold medal. @ time of stadium s completion, largest on-campus stadium @ private hbcu in nation 
brawley hall, named after benjamin griffith brawley, houses college s history, english, language, , art departments.
brazeal hall dormitory built in 1991. housed athletes during time of 1996 olympics in atlanta. brazeal hall housed upperclassmen, though serves freshmen dorm.
ray charles performing arts center , aretha robinson music academic building 76,000-square-foot (7,100 m) facility dedicated on september 29, 2010.
chivers hall/lane hall cafeteria of college. seats 600 people , attached mays hall. sadie mays lounge, named wife of mays, connects mays hall , chivers hall.
dansby hall houses school s physics, psychology, , mathematics departments.
douglass hall (also known lrc (learning resource center)) built school s student center today houses college archives , computer lab.
dubois hall freshman dorm erected in 1973, named after philosopher w.e.b. du bois.
forbes arena 5,700 capacity seat arena, built 1996 olympic games. main gymnasium college s basketball team , holds many events year round.
graves hall, named after second president of morehouse college, samuel t. graves, honors dormitory. when constructed in 1880s, tallest building in atlanta. when college relocated west end area, student housing, classrooms, , administration offices contained within building.
hope hall named after john hope, first african american president (fourth president) of morehouse college. when erected, known science building, later biology building. through years, building became small classroom use , holds laboratories departments in other buildings. hope hall includes offices of public health sciences institute.
hubert hall freshman dorm named after charles d. hubert, acting president 1938 1940.
kilgore campus center houses administrative offices, several seminar rooms , lounges. separate area of building serves dormitory. archer hall, b.t. harvey stadium, , exterior of graves hall featured in spike lee film school daze.
leadership center houses business administration , economics departments other offices. has 500-seat auditorium , executive conference center. building completed in 2005.
living learning center (llc) formerly known thurman hall. 1 of school s freshman dorms.
martin luther king international chapel/gloster hall built in 1978 new auditorium , administration building morehouse college, replacing sale , harkness halls (harkness clark atlanta university structure). home gandhi–king–ikeda reconciliation institute.
mays hall named after sixth president of morehouse college, benjamin mays. houses dorm rooms , headquarters residence life college.
merrill hall, named after charles e. merrill jr., chairman of college s board of trustees, became chemistry building. 2000s (decade) saw merrill hall undergo renovation doubled size. new corridor called john hopps technology tower, houses computer science department.
nabrit-mapp-mcbay hall erected in 1987. building known bio-chem plaque @ corridor stating building built house biology , chemistry classrooms. holds biology department. named distinguished science professors samuel m. nabrit, frederick mapp, , henry mcbay.
otis moss jr. residential suites apartment, studio, , suite dwellings built in 2003. suites renamed in spring 2006, after otis moss jr. (class of 1956), former chair of morehouse s board of trustees.
perdue hall residences hall built around time of 1996 summer olympics. housed athletes during 1996 olympic events.
robert hall, named after joseph t. robert, first president of college, erected college s first residence hall. when built, there cafeteria in basement. today basement houses post office.
sale hall, named after third president, built contain classrooms. today, department building religion , philosophy courses. on second floor, small auditorium, called chapel of inward journey, used religious , commencement proceedings. today, chapel still used recitals, pageants, , student government association election debates.
wheeler hall building used political science , sociology departments.
white hall freshman residence hall, named after college s founder.

monuments

obelisk in front of king chapel dedicated theologian , civil rights leader howard thurman.


a bronze statue of martin luther king jr. stands @ eastern portion of main entrance plaza of martin luther king jr. international chapel. inscribed in base of statue words of king.


an obelisk named in honor of howard thurman stands @ western end of main entrance plaza of king chapel. base of thurman obelisk contains remains of thurman , wife. obelisk houses carillon.


the grave sites of 2 presidents of morehouse college located on campus:



a statue of benjamin mays stands atop marble monument situated in front of graves hall. monument marks graves of president mays , wife, sadie gray mays. behind graves memoirs , time capsule set opened in may 2095.
hugh morris gloster, seventh president of morehouse college , founder of morehouse school of medicine, buried in eastern lawn of college s main administration building bearing name.




^ usnews.com:america s best colleges 2008:morehouse college:at glance . usnews.com. u.s. news & world report, l.p. retrieved 2008-01-30. 
^ campus operations - recycling program . morehouse college. retrieved 2010-10-11. 
^ 1983 morehouse torch (yearbook)
^ morehouse cuts ribbon on ray charles performing arts center , music academic building . morehouse college. archived original on 2010-10-17. retrieved 2010-10-11. 






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