Jackson Hall

Jackson Hall was one of two completed buildings that greeted the very first students to arrive at the State Normal and Industrial School at Harrisonburg in 1909.  At the time, it was called Dormitory 1 and housed half of the students, some of the faculty (including...

The Quad

  The iconic James Madison University quad looks very much as the designers, first president Julian Burruss and architect Charles Robinson, intended when they designed the campus for the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg in 1908. An...

Wilson Hall

President Duke’s completion of Wilson Hall in 1931 gave the James Madison University quad its centerpiece and brought his predecessor’s vision of bluestone symmetry one step closer to realization.The stately addition to campus provided administrative...