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First located at 9 Hamilton Place, the School was a collaborative program between Simmons and Harvard University until 1916, when Harvard withdrew its participation due to conflicting views on the role of women in social work. The School moved to 18…

Construction for the School of Management (SOM) building began in 2006. While the College had originally partnered with Payton Construction Corporation, they switched to the general contractor Lee Kennedy Co., Inc. in June 2007, and the architectural…

The School of Management was located at 409 Commonwealth Avenue from 1980 until 2008. A new School of Management building was completed in 2009 on the Residence Campus, renamed Helen G. Drinan Hall in 2020.

Simmons alumnae organized a Salvage Shop as part of the First Endowment Campaign and rented a house at 97 Newbury Street in March 1921.

Donated items were sold and mended on the first and second floors of the Shop (average sales were over…

Simmons alumnae organized a Salvage Shop as part of the First Endowment Campaign and rented a house at 97 Newbury Street in March 1921.

Donated items were sold and mended on the first and second floors of the Shop (average sales were over…

Simmons alumnae organized a Salvage Shop as part of the First Endowment Campaign and rented a house at 97 Newbury Street in March 1921.

Donated items were sold and mended on the first and second floors of the Shop (average sales were over…

In April 1945, Simmons purchased a four-story brick building at 49 Commonwealth Avenue as the new location of the Prince School of Retailing, next door to the new School of Social Work. Renovations were completed in November, and the Prince School…

In 1926, the College purchased and renovated a four-story brick house at No. 19 Allston Street, designed by the architect Charles Bulfinch, as lecture and office space for the Prince School of Store Service Education (renamed Prince School of…

Pilgrim House (1925) was purchased through funding from the First Endowment Campaign. It was known as the “experiment” or “practice” house for students in the Household Management course.

During the course, students were required to live in…

Two adjoining houses on Peterborough Street were leased as dormitories in 1907, with a door cut between them. Two more houses were leased on Peterborough Street the following year, and students in these houses received a rebate on their board in…