List of MIT graduate dormitories
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This is a list of the graduate dorms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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[edit] Ashdown House
Ashdown is a graduate dormitory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, named for Avery Ashdown, the first housemaster. Formerly known as "Graduate House", the building was first a hotel and later converted into a dormitory.
Ashdown is the second-oldest graduate residence in the United States. Since its conversion form a hotel in 1938, Ashdown has been considered to be the cultural center of the MIT graduate community. It is the only MIT graduate residence that provides affordable housing options within a very active community, and consists of many international students.
Ashdown once boasted a dining program that was very popular among graduate students and faculty. This program was shut down in the 1970s because MIT built a new dining hall in its student center. However, to date, no dining program at MIT has been as successful as the one that was once hosted in Ashdown.
The basement of Ashdown is the location of the popular Thirsty Ear Pub.
The MIT administration has attempted to convert Ashdown into an undergraduate residence no less than 6 times over the past 50 years. These efforts were rebuked by the MIT graduate student body. These efforts are reflected in a variety of media: "Godzilla versus Ashdown" posters in the 1980s (where the former represented the MIT administration) and a large "Save Ashdown" sign in 2002.
Notable residents have included Murray Gell-Mann who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 and Elias James Corey who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1990.
In 2006 MIT announced plans to relocate Ashdown by building a new graduate dormitory northwest of the existing Sidney-Pacific. The new dorm will have less than half of the public space per resident as Ashdown currently boasts [1].
[edit] Eastgate Apartments
The Eastgate Apartments are a mainly-graduate-student residence located at 60 Wadsworth Street, on the far east side of MIT's campus. Like the Westgate Apartments, they were built with the intention of housing students who had spouses and even their children living with them.
[edit] Edgerton House
Edgerton House is a mainly-graduate-student residence located at 143 Albany Street, on the North side of MIT's campus. It houses approximately 185 students in studio, one-bedroom, two-bedroom, three-bedroom and four-bedroom apartments. It is named for "Doc" Harold Eugene Edgerton.
[edit] Green Hall
Green Hall is a women-only graduate dormitory located on Dorm Row.
[edit] Sidney-Pacific
Sidney-Pacific is a graduate dormitory located at the intersection of Sidney Street and Pacific Street (hence the name). It is sometimes referred to as "S&P" or "SidPac" (the latter term is mostly used by MIT undergraduate students). The dormitory holds 749 students and four housemasters, making it the largest dormitory at MIT. The dorm has two music rooms, an exercise room, many TV lounges, and laundry facilities. Completed in August of 2002, it is currently one of the newer graduate dorms at MIT.
[edit] Tang Residence Hall
The Tang Residence Hall is a graduate dormitory tower located on the far west side of MIT's campus. (It should not be confused with the Tang Center for Management Education, which is located on the far east side of campus.)
[edit] The Warehouse
The Warehouse is a nickname for a graduate dormitory that was originally a warehouse.
[edit] Westgate Apartments
The Westgate Apartments are a mainly-graduate-student residence located at 540 Memorial Drive, on the far west side of MIT's campus. Like the Eastgate Apartments, they were built with the intention of housing students who had spouses and even their children living with them.
[edit] External links
- Ashdown House homepage
- Detailed history of MIT Ashdown House
- Sidney-Pacific homepage
- Eastgate homepage
- The Warehouse homepage
