On October 3, the latest designs for Hampton House’s replacement—a new Life Sciences Building—were
presented to the Baltimore City Urban Design & Architecture Advisory Panel.
At the corner of Monument Street and Broadway, the Life Sciences Building—with approximately 500,000 gross square feet and six floors of lab and convening space—will occupy the site of the soon-to-be demolished Hampton House, Reed Hall, and the Denton A. Cooley Center. The new structure will be a keystone of Johns Hopkins University’s Life Sciences Corridor. Johns Hopkins leaders expect it to create an ecosystem for biomedical research centered upon developing technologies in areas such as imaging, artificial intelligence, and genetics.
On May 16, nursing alumni and others the John Hopkins community gathered for a final goodbye to Hampton House, a place that early nursing students for so many years called home. (It was later utilized as office and classroom space by the Bloomberg School of Public Health and various other JHU groups.), The new structure will be a keystone of JHU’s Life Sciences Corridor in East Baltimore.
Groundbreaking is expected by summer, with construction lasting through 2029. It is a bittersweet moment of change and progress. Yet Hampton House memories will go on. ◼