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The Colleges of William & Mary integrated William & Mary and four other campuses into a university system in the early 1960s; only Richard Bland College remains affiliated. A campus for the college's Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) graduate school is located in Gloucester Point site. [ 2 ]
The College of William & Mary [b] (abbreviated as W&M [8]) is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.Founded in 1693 under a royal charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II, it is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the ninth-oldest in the English-speaking world. [9]
St. George Tucker Hall is an academic building on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.Built in 1908–1909 from a design by Cady & See, it was William & Mary's first freestanding library and sits on what is now known as Old Campus.
Richard Bland College of William and Mary was established as a higher education institution in 1960 by the General Assembly of Virginia under the short-lived The Colleges of William & Mary system. The college serves as the junior college of the Commonwealth and a branch campus of the College of William and Mary.
Print depicting Ancient Campus as it would have appeared before 1859. The Brafferton (left) and President's House (right) flank the Wren Building. The history of the College of William & Mary can be traced back to a 1693 royal charter establishing "a perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and the good arts and sciences" in the British Colony of Virginia.
Situated in Old College Yard [4]: p.375 [1] —of William & Mary's "Ancient Campus", near the more contemporary Merchants Square east of campus—the frequently visited Wren Building anchors that Campus, [6] [better source needed] with its forecourt defined by two further old structures, Brafferton (built in 1723 as an Indian school) and the ...
The Sunken Garden (often erroneously referred to as the Sunken Gardens [1]) is the central element of the Old Campus at the College of William & Mary.The garden consists of a long stretch of grass, about 2.7 acres (1.1 ha), lying lower than the surrounding area, that runs west from the rear of the Wren Building to Crim Dell pond.
Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall is a multi-use building on the campus of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. It contains the largest auditorium on the campus, containing two floors of seating. The building is home to art shows, musical acts, theatre, assemblies and guest speakers.