Bodine was constructed in 1900 and sits immediately south of Memorial Tower, which serves as one of the entrances to the Quadrangle known as the Upper Quad Gate. The building houses the newly installed Ware College House offices on the third floor. The office of the House Dean is in what used to be two rooms, Bodine 309 and 313. The office of the House Coordinator is in 310 across the hall. Immediately south of the offices of the House Dean and House Coordinator are two tutoring rooms (Bodine 305 and 306), the office of the Resident Advisors and Graduate Associates (Bodine 301), an office for use of the Ware Faculty (Bodine 304), and an office for the House Council (Bodine 302). The area is further made attractive by the Class of 1971 Seminar room and the ever-popular Morgan-Bodine Lounge.  The lounge, which is the central meeting space in the house, is outfitted with comfortable couches, a giant photo of the current residents on the north stairs, a pool table, a foosball table, and a study space with two round slate tables. Currently Bodine is the home of 30 students and one residential program - Women in Leadership. Historically, however, Bodine housed as many as 43 students. The number declined with the move of the House offices from McClelland to the third floor of Bodine in 2011. Bodine House is the gift of Samuel T. Bodine of the Class of 1873 and is named for the Bodine family (Nitzsche 1918, 66).

Details about Samuel Taylor Bodine can be found in a 1902 book which is part of a series on “Universities and their Sons”. Chamberlain writes that Mr. Bodine was “Born in Philadelphia, 1984; graduated University of Pennsylvania, 1873; since 1882 an officer of the United Gas Improvement Company, first as Secretary and Treasurer, later as Vice-President and General Manager.” (p. 122)

“Samuel Taylor Bodine was born in Philadelphia, August 23, 1854, son of Samuel Tucker and Louisa Wylie (Millikin) Bodine. For seven years he attended the Germantown Academy, and then entering the University of Pennsylvania was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1873. For a year after his graduation Mr. Bodine was employed as a shipping clerk in an iron foundry at Royersford, Pennsylvania, and for two years at the Cohansey Glass Company's factoryy in Bridgeton, New Jersey. For six years subsequently he was in charge of the repair shops and of commercial work in the Chief Engineer's Department of the American and Red Star Steamship Lines. In June 1882 he entered the service of the United Gas Improvement Company as Secretary and Treasurer. Subsequently he was advanced to the postion of Second Vice-President and General manager, which offices he continues to hold. Mr. Bodine is a member of the Board of Managers of the Department of Archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania, a Trustee of the Episcopal Academy, a member of the Geological and Topographical Survey Commission of the State of Pennsylvania, a member of the Zelosophic Society, the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity, the University Club of Philadelphia, the University Club of New York, the Rittenhouse Club of Philadelphia, the Germantown Cricket Club and the Merion Cricket Club. He is a life-long Republican, but has never figured actively in politics. Mr. Bodine married, on November 15, 1883, Eleanor Gray Warden, by whom he has three children; Louise Warden, Eleanor Gray and William Warden Bodine.” (Chamberlain 1902, p. 122)

Outside Bodine house overlooking the Upper Quad is a statue of Reverend George Whitefield by R. Tait McKenzie. The statue, commissioned for the bicentennial of the Reverend's birthday in 1914 was installed in 1919. Rev. Whitefield is connected with the beginnings of the University of Pennsylvania as the "New Building" which he used for his Charity School of Philadelphia also housed the College and the Academy which were earlier parts of what was to become the University of Pennsylvania.

G.E. Nitzsche (1918) University of Pennsylvania. Its History, Traditions, Buildings and Memorials, Philadelphia, pp. 66.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1902) University of Pennsylvania. Boston.