Burton–Judson Courts (BJ) 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: Chamberlin, Coulter, Dodd-Mead, Linn-Mathews, Salisbury, and Vincent. In addition to student rooms, the building contains a library, lounge rooms, and apartments for resident heads and the resident deans.
Notable residents Otis Brawley,Otis Webb Brawley and Paul Goldberg, How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America, p. 143 oncologist and executive vice president of the American Cancer Society. Misha Collins, actor. James W. Cronin,University of Chicago 1951-1952 Student Address Book Ok Nobel Prize–winning physicist and University of Chicago faculty member. Lived in Vincent House (room 415). Philip Glass,University of Chicago 1954-1955 Student Address Book Noted composer, lived in Coulter House. Tucker Max,University of Chicago 1994-1998 Student Address Book Noted blogger and "fratire" writer. Lived in Mathews House. Walter Oi,Michael Szenberg, Lall Ramrattan, eds., Reflections of Eminent Economists Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004, p. 333 academic and US government economist. Ken Ono,Ken Ono and Amir D. Aczel, My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count New York: Springer, 2016, p. 111 mathematician. Lived in Dodd-Mead House. Santa J. Ono,University of Chicago 1980-1981 Student Address Book Immunologist, 15th President of University of Michigan and 28th President of University of Cincinnati, 15th President of University of British Columbia. Lived in Dodd-Mead House (room 141a). Richard Rorty, American Pragmatist. Carl Sagan,Carl Sagan: A LifeUniversity of Chicago 1953 Student Address Book Noted astronomer. Lived in Dodd House (room 141). Bernie Sanders, United States Senator from Vermont. Lived in Chamberlin House. Thomas Sebeok,Paul Cobley, John Deely, Kalevi Kull, eds., Semiotics Continues to Astonish: Thomas A. Sebeok and the Doctrine of Signs p. 469 semiotician and linguist. Evan Sharp, Co-founder and designer of Pinterest. Lived in Salisbury House. George Steiner,George Steiner, Errata: An Examined Life New Haven: Yale, 1999, p. 44 Literary and cultural critic. Nate Silver, Statistician and editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight. Lived in Vincent House. Morgan Saylor, Actress. Lived in Dodd-Mead House. Agnes Callard, Philosopher. Lived in Dodd-Mead House.
See also Housing at the University of Chicago
References
External links
Guide to the University of Chicago Burton-Judson Courts Records 1929-2007 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center