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The residents of this room have decorated with vases, a pennant, and a lamp styled like a parasol which echoes earlier images of Normal School students on the Quad. Personal items like photographs, jewelry, and perfume sit on top of the dresser scarf…

Parlors are ways of structuring the space inside a building to channel visitors in a certain way, rather than opening directly into living space. The Senior Hall parlor, inside of what is today Cleveland, was a formalized space with its own set of…

This photograph of the parlor depicts the formal nature of the space. Matching furniture is arranged symmetrically in this public space. Images of dorm rooms from the same time period show much less uniformity in their spatial layout. This further…

This image shows the early stages of construction on “Dormitory No. 3,” or Spotswood Hall.

The completed Spotswood Hall stands behind several young ladies with their parasols. The image also shows the boardwalk that ran through the area and between buildings.

Converse Hall residents congregate in the hall in the mid-1990s. Halls like these are intermediary space in dormitories; they are public, but many students treat them as extensions of dorm room space for that particular floor rather than…

These students, identified as Becky Lillard and Wendy Coplen, are shown here in Chandler Hall, Suite 310. Posters are attached to the wall, instead of framed pictures, and one of these posters is devoted to alcohol. A Disney character and a…

A fellow student helps another with his hood for the graduation ceremony. In the early 1990s, African Americans comprised almost 10% of the entire undergraduate student body at JMU. [Data retrieved from Office of Institutional Research,…

A march on campus honoring the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. The march is shown here passing Gibbons Dining Hall on their way to the Warren Campus Center where a “speakout” was held to hear community voices and opinions.

This postcard depicts a view of Spotswood, Sheldon, and Alumnae Halls on the State Teacher’s College campus taken sometime between 1924 and 1927, the time of Sheldon Hall’s first renovation. Both Spotswood and Sheldon were dormitories during this…