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Built more than three score ago, Johnston Hall stands as one of the most unique residence halls on campus.
With its Victorian design, and open courtyard area, you have plenty of remaining memories of the buildings origins and modern Mizzou traditions.
Hey Kierre. How’s it goin’? What are you studying?
Hi Nic. I’m studying Cell Biology.
Mhm. Sounds interesting. I’m just doing a quick tour for a few interested residents about Johnston Hall today. Are there any interesting places to eat around here?
Yeah. Sabai is our Southeast Asian dining hall. It’s actually right around the corner here. They have really interesting Asian dishes there.
Cool. I’ll have to try it out sometime. Is Taj around?
Uh, yeah, Taj is in the Georgian Room here. You can ask her and see if she’s available to show you around and maybe you could see a room.
Alright. Thank you.
No problem.
Oh, hey Taj.
Hey Nick. What’s up?
Oh, nothin’ just doin’ a tour for Video Hall Shorts today. Think you could show me around the residence hall?
Yeah, absolutely. Let me just grab my stuff, and we’ll head upstairs and I’ll show you around.
Alright. Cool.
Similar to McDavid Hall, Johnston Hall illustrates the talent of residents from yesteryear on the walls throughout the building. You can find murals and paintings on the corridor walls and near floor lounges.
Each floor showcases different paintings so make sure you visit other floors to see the elaborate artwork.
Within our lobby, currently we have a trophy case where we have a bit of them—we actually have to store some of them underneath because we cannot display them because there’s so many.
In there as well, there’s some older, um, awards from students back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s that have been passed down
and we want to display those because it’s part of the history in the building that they participated in, um, it’s just interesting, I think, just to see that we’ve been able to maintain some of that.
If you noticed, Johnston is the building that holds as many historical and interesting building facts. Here, you’ll be able to appreciate Eva Johnston’s story
of her success while attending Mizzou by checking out her diploma and other documents hanging in the Georgian Room.
The Georgian Room is the hall lounge which showcases the building’s lovely Victorian style. Residents can check out the key to this lounge by the front desk.
The community style hall is home to two types of rooms. The single and a double-room.
Needless to say, the main difference between the two is that the double houses two residents and the single is a bachelor and bachelorette pad meant for one person.
While Johnston Hall is scheduled for renovation in 2014, the current hall uses hard keys to lock and unlock the doors to the rooms.
So, right not I’m living in a single room, but during the school year I lived in a triple room. But the single room is very spacious for just one person and the triple rooms are huge, too.
But, no matter what room they’re probably going to enjoy it.
Living in the triple was pretty cool because one roommate was my best friend from high school and the other…
We had all gotten to know each other pretty well and we became, like a group of three instead of just a group of two that we were before.
At the beginning of the year we had bunk beds just to have more space,
and then by the end of the year spread it out and had our own little sections of the room.
Because the room was so huge, you could pretty much just—okay this part of the room’s mine, that part of the room’s yours, this is hers.
So, it worked out really well. Everyone pretty much kept their doors open all the time so you could walk back from class
and just peek in someone’s room and stop and say “Hi” and talk. It was really fun.
Um, the floor meetings were really cool and always had a lot of fun. And the PA was, like, the coolest person on our floors.
So, I had a lot of friends so, they put up a list of our classes and who else on our floor had the same classes.
So, that helped a lot with getting together and studying. And, I think just living in the dorms in general just helped my GPA better than living off campus my first year.
I would choose the same—the Res Hall if I had to.
One of the most striking features of Johnston Hall is something that is fairly well-concealed. And that is the fact that every floor has its own laundry room.
One thing Johnston House lounges are good at is combining comfort and food. Why is that?
Because the small kitchenette is attached to every floor lounge.
Now, you don’t have to go far to make popcorn when you are in the middle of a Twilight movie marathon.
If you’re looking for a larger area to take use of your cooking talents, there’s a hall kitchen located on the first floor of Johnston.
Thanks for taking me around the hall today, Taj., I hope I didn’t take away from your studies.
Oh, no problem. Thanks for stoppin’ by. I hope to see you around okay?
Okay, thanks. Bye.
See ya.
And thank you for joining me on this tour today.
For more information on Johnston Hall or any other of the resident halls on our campus, please visit our main website at reslife.missouri.edu.
Thanks, see you around.