Classroom Buildings

Classroom Buildings

The three main classroom buildings are Duke Memorial Hall, Frank Family Science Center and King Hall. There also are general use classrooms, and class and open access computer labs in the Bauman Telecommunications Center. Dana Auditorium building and Ragan Brown Field House have some general use classrooms, while primarily serving music and athletic programs, respectively. 

The Frank Family Science Center houses all of the natural science departments (i.e. biology, chemistry, geology, physics, and astronomy) including their teaching and research labs, and a number of general-use classrooms. The laboratory wing of the Frank Family Science Center houses the science departments and their faculty offices and meeting spaces. Geology facilities support a complete field and laboratory program for the Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program. Other features include a weather station and both optical and radio telescopes on its roof, and the Donald J. Cline Observatory. Its Joseph M. Bryan Jr. Auditorium is a 135-seat domed space designed for hosting lectures and presentations, film viewings, concerts, and student theater productions.

In addition to general-use classrooms and faculty offices, programs housed within King Hall include the Center for Principled Problem Solving, the Office of Transformation and Inclusion, the Intercultural Engagement Center, the Bonner Center for Community Service and Learning, Every Campus a Refuge (ECAR), and Ethical Leadership. Residential Education and Housing also resides in King Hall.   

Physical Education Center
All students are encouraged to participate in intercollegiate, club and intramural sports. Guilford College’s Physical Education Center, dedicated in 1980, affords students the opportunity for physical development, recreation and athletic competition.

The Center consists of:

  • Ragan-Brown Field House, which has a 2,500-person seating capacity, three full-size basketball courts and classrooms for physical education studies. Ragan Brown is the main athletic facility that includes the Alumni Gym, built in 1940, which has one basketball court as well as offices for coaches and some faculty members.
  • Mary Ragsdale Fitness Area, which is 4,500 square feet with treadmills, elliptical machines, free weights and Hammer Strength equipment.

Significantly renovated athletic facilities such as the:

  • Softball Hitting Annex,;
  • Jensen golf building);
  • Relocated tennis courts;
  • Apenzeller Press Box and football facility.

Adjacent outdoor athletic areas to the PE Center include:

  • McBane Baseball Field and Stuart T. Maynard Batting Center, Jack Jensen Golf Center, Armfield Athletic Center for football, lacrosse and soccer.
  • Outdoor lighted basketball court and outdoor sand pit volleyball court.
  • Adjacent outdoor athletic areas to New Garden Road include:
  • Dorothy Ragsdale-McMichael Varsity Tennis Courts.
  • Haworth Softball Field.
  • Haworth North/South Field used for rugby and intramural sports.
  • Haworth Soccer Practice Field.
  • Haworth lighted field used for rugby and intramural sports.
  • Haworth East Field used for ultimate and intramural sports.

Founders Hall
Rebuilt on the site of the original building of New Garden Boarding School, Founders Hall provides office space for many student service departments and traditional-age student organizations. Its facilities include the College dining hall, meeting rooms, lounges, an art gallery, a mailroom for traditional-age students, the College bookstore, the student-operated radio station, The Grill, and Student Organizations Center.  Founders Hall also houses the President’s Office, Provost's Office and Student Affairs. 

Housed in the basement is the Department of Theatre Studies, including faculty offices, box office, costume shop, dressing rooms and a rehearsal hall.

Practicing, Performing and Meeting Space
Charles A. Dana Auditorium, completed in 1961, is a proscenium theater that seats 1,000 people and is used for major musical events as well as for lectures and conferences. The south wing houses teaching classrooms, music practice rooms and a large choir room for rehearsals and small informal concerts. The Mary Pemberton Moon Room is suitable in size and arrangement for worship, informal lectures and meetings. Dana Auditorium hosts classes from a variety of disciplines and houses offices for the Music and the Religious Studies departments. In the summer, Dana is home to the Eastern Music Festival..

Sternberger Auditorium, adjacent to Founders Hall, is a flexible performance space that seats up to 250 people and is equipped for stage productions, concerts, lectures and dances.

Studios and Galleries
Hege-Cox Hall houses the Department of Art offices, outdoor kilns for firing ceramics, a darkroom, and studios for wood and mixed-media sculpture, welding, ceramics, printmaking, painting and drawing. There is a hallway gallery for the exhibition of student work. Founders Hall also provides space on its second level for exhibiting Art Department sponsored student work. 

Hege Academic Commons is home to the Guilford College Art Gallery, which houses and displays permanent collections in its formal gallery and atrium spaces supporting teaching and learning across the curriculum. Collections include modern and contemporary art reflecting social and cultural issues congruent with the College’s Quaker tradition. The Carnegie Wing of the Academic Commons features gallery space supportive of both physical and digital displays. The mission of the Carnegie Gallery is to showcase all that is distinctively Guilford: to be a celebration of all manner of intellectual and artistic endeavors by students, faculty, staff, and alumni alike.

Hege Academic Commons
Hege Academic Commons is a cultural and intellectual center, exemplifying Guilford’s unique experiential approach to the liberal arts educational experience. The Commons promotes authentic campus partnerships, fostering a sense of academic community, furthering a culture of experimentation, and serving as a catalyst for the innovative and creative design of learning experiences. The Commons centralizes essential academic resources, services, and support to enable students to critically and creatively engage in directing their academic experience through personal exploration. Academic engagement areas within the Commons include:

  • Student research and learning technologies resources and support
  • Satellite technology support services through the ITS HelpDesk@Hege
  • Learning design and development
  • Digital media services
  • Integrated academic and career planning and advising
  • Global and off-campus learning engagement planning
  • Professional and peer tutoring
  • Writing and quantitative literacy support
  • Accessibility resources and services
  • Resources,services, and support areas are:
  • Hege Library and Learning Technologies
  • Quaker Archives and Special Collections
  • Guilford College Art Gallery
  • Office of Global and Off-Campus Initiatives
  • Career, Academic, and Personal Exploration (CAPE)
  • Learning and Writing Center
  • Accessibility Resource Center
  • Teaching, Learning, and Research Collaboratory
  • Honors Program and Research Hub

Friends Center
The Friends Center provides programs and support that nurture the Quaker ethos and commitments of the college by working closely with students, staff, faculty, alumni, and building partnerships in the community. Friends Center does this by supporting “the whole person” both at Guilford College and in the wider community through Quaker-inspired, as well as broader multifaith, activities that are grounded in prayer, informed by Friends’ faith and practice, nourished by worship and spiritual formation, and brought to fullness in a committed community. The Friends Center is located in the front of campus (Alumni/Worth House) where students can engage in prayer, confer with staff, hold gatherings, and plan activities.