Janet Long Mall Cottage

Janet Long Mall Cottage is the last of the seven original buildings of the Walton estate. It was built in 1916 as the gardener's house with a greenhouse attached. The building also was used as an infirmary for the campus starting in 1953, named for Suzanne "Suzie" Walton (Charles Walton Sr.'s granddaughter). Now named for the former Executive Director of Student Financial Services for Eastern University, Janet Long Mall Cottage is now the home of the Financial Aid and Student Accounts departments.

Janet Long Mall Cottage is the last of the seven original buildings of the Walton estate, built in 1916 as the gardener's house with a greenhouse attached. During that time, it was the home of the Walton estate groundskeeper.

After the campus was bought by Eastern Baptist College (now Eastern University), the greenhouse was converted into an infirmary in 1953, dedicated a year later as Suzanne Walton Infirmary. The newly-christened infirmary was named for Charles Walton Sr.'s granddaughter who died in 1929 at age six from lupus (though her death later became fantasized and transformed into the source of the Suzie Walton "ghost stories" from Walton Hall).

The 4,973 total square footage building eventually became the home of the Financial Aid and Student Accounts departments, transforming into the Mall Cottage with the Health Center moving to Doane Residence Hall.

On October 1, 2010, the building was dedicated as the Janet Long Mall College, in honor of Janet L. Long, Ed.D, the former Executive Director of Student Financial Services for Eastern University who passed away from cancer in 2010. Some of Dr. Long's favorite Biblical verses can be found hanging inside the cottage, along with two pictures of Dr. Long presented to the university by her family.

"Mall Cottage." Folder in Eastern University Archives. Located at Warner Memorial Library, Eastern University, St. Davids, PA, 19087.

"Mall Cottage to Janet Long Mall Cottage." The Waltonian. Volume 12, Issue 4. October 13, 2010. https://rescarta.eastern.edu/ResCarta-Web/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=fc939b89-3753-40ae-8e8c-1b3f77ac7a27/easa0000/20110817/00000766