Across campus, buildings often are named in honor of an individual with strong ties to Case Western Reserve. From past university presidents to dedicated alumni, the buildings each pay homage to a different part of CWRU’s history and the people who made it what it is today.
North Residential Village:
- Clarke Tower: John Hessin Clarke (WRC 1877), a prominent attorney, newspaper publisher and justice on the U.S. Supreme Court; also a trustee of Western Reserve University
- Cutler House: Carroll Cutler, a professor and then president of Western Reserve College (1871-1886); in his inaugural address, he announced that women would be admitted to the college
- Hitchcock House: Henry L. Hitchcock, president of Western Reserve College (1855-1871)
- Norton House: Mary Castle Norton, president of the Church Home for the Aged and Friendless, chair of the Board of Lady Managers of Lakeside Hospital and board member of the Cleveland Institute of Music; her father was the first mayor of the united city of Cleveland, after Ohio City and Cleveland merged
- Pierce House: George E. Pierce, president of Western Reserve College (1834-1855), who was instrumental in the founding of the medical school in 1843
- Raymond House: Emma S. Raymond, who served on the Flora Stone Mather Advisory Council, of which she was vice president from 1910-1915; also the niece of Amasa Stone
- Sherman House: Harriette Benedict Sherman, a member of the Flora Stone Mather College for Women advisory council and chairman of the House Committee, which was responsible for the college’s first dormitory
- Smith House: Helen M. Smith, an alumna of the fourth graduating class of the College for Women in 1894 and, later, dean of the college (1914-1941); during her tenure, she increased enrollment six-fold
- Storrs House: Charles B. Storrs, a theology professor and then the first president of Western Reserve College (1830-1833)
- Taft House: Alice Arter Taft, an 1896 alumna of the College for Women, involved member of the Alumnae Association (she was president twice), a founding member of Phi Kappa Zeta sorority and a founder of the College Club
- Taplin House: Elsie Holliday Taplin, an alumna of the university who was part of a prominent railroad and coal industry family in Cleveland
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones Residence Hall: Double alumna Stephanie Tubbs Jones (FSM ’71, LAW ’74), who, as a student, founded the university’s Afro-American Society (now the African American Society) and was an active member of the Black Students Law Association; she went on to become the first African-American woman to become a Common Pleas court judge in Ohio, the first African-American woman in Ohio to become a county prosecutor, and the first African-American woman elected to represent Ohio in Congress
- Tyler House: Marion Clark Tyler, member of the Mather Advisory Council and a benefactor of education, welfare and religious organizations across Cleveland
South Residential Village
- Glaser House: Donald A. Glaser (CSAS ’46), who won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the bubble chamber
- Howe House: Charles Summer Howe, the second president of Case School of Applied Science
- Kusch House: Polykarp Kusch (CSAS ’31), who won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics for the demonstration that the magnetic moment of the electron was greater than its theoretical value—leading to the questioning of the constants of quantum electrodynamics
- Michelson House: Albert Michelson, a Case School of Applied Science professor who won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics and the first American to a win a Nobel Prize in the sciences; his most famous experiment, the Michelson-Morley Experiment, found that the speed of light is constant in all inertial frames of reference
- Staley House: Cady Staley, the first president of Case School of Applied Science; he began his career as a wagon train driver and prospector before becoming a civil engineer
Get a virtual tour of the residential halls and learn more about their namesakes at students.case.edu/housing/facilities/tour/.