Margarett Root Brown College
At Rice, a residential college functions as an extended family. Rice undergraduates are randomly assigned to one of 11 residential colleges so that each college represents a cross-section of the university’s diversity.
Originally constructed as the second of Rice’s residential colleges intended exclusively for women, Brown College is now fully coed as are all Rice residential colleges. The building was designed by a staff architect for Brown & Root construction, the company that also built the building. Brown & Root’s founder, Herman Brown, was also a member of the Rice Board of Trustees.
What’s there: Undergraduate Housing, Brown College Commons
Named for: Margarett Root Brown, wife of Herman Brown
Built: 1965, Brown & Root (Albert E. Sheppard staff architect); 2002 expansion, including new Brown College Commons, by Michael Graves and Pierce Goodwin Alexander & Linville
Rice Campus Map No. 13