University House, University of Birmingham
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University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...
, University House became the home for the university's business school
Birmingham Business School
Birmingham Business School is the business school of the University of Birmingham in England, located in University House, a former hall of residence in Edgbaston which has been extensively refurbished and expanded to provide state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities.Originally established...
in 2004 after having been extensively refurbished and extended to provide state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities. It is located in beautiful grounds in the conservation area of Edgbaston
Edgbaston
Edgbaston is an area in the city of Birmingham in England. It is also a formal district, managed by its own district committee. The constituency includes the smaller Edgbaston ward and the wards of Bartley Green, Harborne and Quinton....
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
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The name 'University House' was originally given to a building on Hagley Road in 1908. The present building was constructed in 1912 as a residence for female students at the university. In 1964, the hall became one of the UK's first mixed-sex university residences. It remained so until its closure as a residence in July 2002.
Students made a Guinness World Record for endurance after completing a croquet marathon on the hall's lawn.