Securing a future for "the prettiest house"

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Aurelia Bolton's memories of Homewood — the Federal-era summer home that gives Hopkins' main campus its name — date to her earliest years. Her father, Charles Garland, Sr., later an influential chairman of the university's board of trustees, would take his family on evening strolls through the Hopkins campus, and young Aurelia enjoyed peeking through the house's windows.

"I thought Homewood was just the prettiest house," she recalls.