The Williamson Road apartments, located directly across the main thoroughfare from campus, faithfully served more than 40 years’ worth of Hollins students, most often seniors, as a trusted and beloved—if not always perfect!—living space.

Plans were to demolish these apartments once a majority of their replacements, the Student Village located on Faculty Road between the Hill Houses and the barn, were completed in 2020. However, the arrival of COVID-19 necessitated using them as quarantine and isolation spaces for students who tested positive or were exposed to the virus during the 2020-21 academic year and for parts of the 2021-22 year as well.

Within the year, the apartments will be razed in order to make way for a new phase for Hollins and for the larger Hollins area, and options are being explored for ways to make the best use of the property to serve our campus community and to, potentially, generate revenue in service of the school’s budgetary needs.

In the next issue of Hollins magazine, we will look to share more information about the plans for that property, but we also invite our alumnae/i to share their memories and their photos of good times past in those apartments and in the courtyards and parking lots around them!

If you have stories and photos to share, please email magazine@hollins.edu.