Professor John F. Jameson, commemorated by Jameson House, taught history at Brown from 1888 to 1901. He later became the head of the history department at the University of Chicago, and Director of the Department of Historical Research of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Keeney Quad was fully renovated and existing houses were combined creating Jameson-Mead. Renovations added elevators, accessible bathrooms and top floor lounges, upgraded lighting and various amenities.