After 10 decades of continuous use, Gilman Hall, the Johns Hopkins University’s flagship building and the heart of the Homewood campus, is undergoing a bold, ambitious renovation that will enhance and revitalize this historic structure while dramatically transforming it into an incubator for the humanities of the 21st century.

With this website, we offer an ongoing insider’s look at the renovation, with a view to the construction itself and the myriad stories that reside within this 92-year-old building. We invite you to visit regularly and enjoy a new story on or about the 15th of each month, and we encourage you to share your own Gilman stories and memories. We look forward to sharing the renovation’s progress and celebrating with you the opening of the new Gilman Hall in the fall of 2010.

Gilman’s Maestro »

By Greg Rienzi

Martin "Marty" Kajic, facilities project manager for the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, says his meeting schedule ebbs and flows, going from a trickle to fire hose blast. One not-so-unusual week in mid-July, the water pressure valve was wide open.

Over a 3-day stretch, Kajic met with a new faculty member in psychological and brain sciences about his laboratory needs; with contractors about renovations to the deans' suite and the installation of a new quarter-mile running track at the Johns Hopkins at Eastern campus; with administrators from the Language Teaching Center about its space needs; and with designers about expanding the seating capacity and upgrading the AV systems in a Mudd Hall classroom.

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