Campus Hills offered seven models primarily of brick construction, six tri-levels and one rancher. The six tri-levels, ranging from 3 bedrooms and 1-1/2 baths to 5 bedrooms and 3 baths, some with garages, were the Cromwell and Cromwell Deluxe, the Yorktown and Yorktown Deluxe, and the Warfield and Warfield Deluxe. The rancher with 3 bedrooms (or 2 bedrooms and a family room) was the Rutledge. To give a feeling of "non-development living," except for the string of ranchers on the south side of Goucher Blvd., Campus Hills homes are adapted to the lot and have an interesting mix of various models being included on one block. Locust trees were uniformly planted throughout the community between the sidewalks and streets.

Campus Hills was built in three stages, the first section with 72 homes, the second with 160 homes and the third with 137 homes, for a total of 369 dwellings on lots that average ¼ acre. When Campus Hills homes went on sale in the latter half of 1955, the 232 homes in the first and second section sold on the first day. The first resident moved into the first section on July 24, 1956, and the first resident in the second section on December 6th. The third section move-ins began in January 1958.

Campus Hills residents became a vocal group early on and have continued to this day to speak their position on important covenant and zoning issues as they arise through their community association. The first evidence of community solidarity was apparent in the fall of 1956 when a group of first section owners joined with a group of second section owners to form an ad hoc committee to successfully protest rezoning of the property at the corner of Joppa and Providence Roads. This ad hoc committee grew to become what is now the Campus Hills Community Association, a non-profit association comprised of Campus Hills homeowners.