During the next two years, six of the University’s nine residential Pavilions will open for new tenants. The Board of Visitors has yet to select tenants for five of the expected vacancies, which include both of Pavilion VIII’s apartment residences.
Of the currently vacant Pavilions, Pavilion II currently is closed for renovation, Senior Preservation Planner Brian Hogg said, but will open and be filled in the fall. He explained that the Pavilions undergo major renovations every 20 to 30 years, and minor renovations whenever there is a change in tenants.
In keeping with Thomas Jefferson’s vision, the University is “extremely respectful of the historic fabric of the buildings,” Hogg said. “As [the University plans] renovations, [it is] very careful not to destroy historic parts of the interior or exterior as [it introduces] modern technology.”
Once Pavilion II’s renovations are complete, College Dean Meredith Woo and her husband Bruce Cumings will move in during the upcoming fall semester. Another change in Pavilion residency also will occur this year; Education Dean Robert Pianta and wife Ann will move from their current home in Pavilion III to Pavilion I during the fall semester.
Several of the University’s other Pavilions, meanwhile, will become vacant in 2010. Pavilion V, the current residence of Vice President for Student Affairs Patricia Lampkin and Wayne Cozart, will become available in summer 2010, and Pavilion IX, in which Architecture Dean Karen Van Lengen and James Welty now live, will open in March 2010.
To fill the vacancies, Board Secretary Sandy Gilliam said, the Board will first consider the vice president for student affairs and the provost for Pavilion residency. It then will consider the deans of the different schools in the order that they were founded. Lastly, the Board will consider full professors if there is no interest from vice presidents or deans.
University nominees for Pavilion residency often turn down the opportunity, though, because of the expected lack of privacy, peace and quiet, Gilliam said.
Current Pavilion VIII Upper Apartment resident, Economics Prof. Sarah Turner, however, called the Lawn a “peaceful place to live.”
“There have not been more than three nights in five years that I’ve been woken up,” said Turner, whose Pavilion VIII apartment also will become vacant in 2010.
The honor of living in a University Pavilion comes with the clear expectation that the tenant will be a “good Lawn citizen” — a phrase coined by Lawn residents, Gilliam said. Pavilion residents are expected to willingly and enthusiastically interact with students and open their homes. Turner said one of the greatest things about living on the Lawn is the ability to entertain students — jokingly adding that she never had, and probably will never again have, a 16-person dining room table.
Pavilion VIII is unique in that it still embodies the original vision that Jefferson had for the Academical Village’s Pavilions, with classrooms and offices on the main floor and faculty living upstairs, Turner said. Pavilion VIII also is unique because residency in the two apartments is generally given to junior faculty members, unlike the other Pavilions, Gilliam added.
Interested faculty members must apply to live in one of the two Pavilion VIII apartments in a process separate from the one used to decide the remaining Pavilions’ residents. Gilliam said the Board’s secretary recommends one applicant to be approved by a small committee, which includes the chair of the Faculty Senate and the winner of the Gray-Carrington award — a third-year student who may live on the Lawn the next year. The Terrace Apartment of Pavilion VIII currently is vacant and the Upper Apartment will become vacant in 2010, when Turner moves out.
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