Campus
Facilities
The College environment is designed to enhance student learning, and features:
- 140 beautifully landscaped acres on central campus.
- Historical buildings showcasing many eras of American architecture, including
Draper Hall classroom building (modeled after Philadelphia’s Independence
Hall); Phelps Stokes Auditorium (a 1,500 seat facility built by students
in 1904); Danforth Chapel; Fairchild Hall (the first brick building
on campus); Jelkyl Drama Center; Seabury Center (for physical education
and health);
and the Woods-Penniman Crossroads Complex.
- A residential campus with 14 residence halls and 9 specialty houses,
plus 50 family housing apartments, accommodating about 88% of students
on campus.
- Berea College Ecovillage student family housing complex, including
a state-of-the-art child care center for 120 children. The Ecovillage
models sustainable living
with ecological design elements to vastly reduce energy and water
usage.
- 7,700 acres of forest and 1,200 acres for instruction in agriculture
and natural resources.
- Historic
Boone Tavern Hotel on College Square, staffed with a
number of student workers.
- Seabury Center
