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  • A Brief History of Simmons College
  • Presidents of Simmons College
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  • Traditions of Simmons College
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  • History of Garland Junior College
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Simmons College Archives

The Buildings of Simmons College
The School of Management Buildings

In the spring of 1976, Simmons College acquired the assets of Garland Junior College, a small women's college located at the time on Commonwealth Avenue and Marlborough Street near Kenmore Squre in Boston's Back Bay. Among the assets were several buildings which date from the late 1800s.

Since 1977, Simmons has used these buildings to house the Simmons School of Management (formerly, in turn, the Graduate Program in Management and the Graduate School of Management).

The campus of the Simmons School of Management consists of the Mary Garland Center (at 407, 409, 411, 413-415, and 419 Commonwealth Avenue) and the Mockler Building (located at 451 Marlborough Street), named after Colman Mockler, former CEO of the Gillette Company and long-time Chairman of the Simmons Board of Trustees.

View of the Garland Center.
The administative offices of the Simmons School of Management are housed in 409 Commonwealth Avenue.

The Mockler Building at 451 Marlborough Street, photographed here in the early 1980s, contains two caserooms, wired into electronic classrooms in 1997, for MBA classes, as well as a kitchen and mailboxes for students.

409 Commonwealth Avenue

 

In Spring 2007, ground was broke at Simmons College's main academic campus for a new building which, once conpleted in 2009, will house the School of Management.

The College Archives is pleased to present this historical survey of the buildings of Simmons College--from the earliest classrooms, and offices in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, through the construction of the Main College Building at 300 The Fenway, the development of the Residence Campus, and recent addiitons of academic buildings and the construction and renovation of a new library.

Join us for a tour of the Buildings of Simmons College

Early Simmons Buildings

The Main College Building

The Main Academic Campus

The Early Residence Campus and Freshman Campus

The Modern Residence Campus

The School of Social Work

The School of Management

 

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Page updated: July 8, 2008