Faunce House

As Brown's student center, Faunce House is the center of a network of student activity and recreational spaces at Brown.

Planning is currently underway to renovate Faunce House to create the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center at Faunce House. Together with the student resources and services center located in J. Walter Wilson, the Campus Center will represent the realization of key objectives in the Plan for Academic Enrichment: fostering a greater sense of community at Brown and more effectively integrating the academic and co-curricular lives of students.

Faunce House was dedicated in 1904 as Rockefeller Hall. It was built and equipped by a generous gift of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr, of the class of 1897. In 1931 the East Wing was added, and, at the request of Mr. Rockefeller, the building was renamed in memory of the late Dr. William Herbert Perry Faunce, President of Brown University. In 1981 the Corporation approved a plan proposed by the Undergraduate Activities Board and the Student Center Committee to restore Faunce as a student center; work was completed on this revitalization in 1989.

A more detailed history of Faunce House is available.