Cornell North Campus

All freshmen are housed on North Campus as part of Cornell's common first-year experience and residential initiatives.

Two pedestrian-only bridges cross to the east: the Triphammer Footbridge connects to Forest Home Drive north of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, and on the far side of Beebe Lake, the Sackett Footbridge to Forest Home Drive on the north end of the Cornell Botanic Gardens.

All of these buildings were designed for women and included self-contained dining facilities as well as parlors for receiving male visitors.

While Dickson was built consistent with the spirit of the plan, it was abandoned in the 1960s due to cost, with Donlon and Hasbrouck both employing modern architecture and lacking integrated dining halls.

A North Campus Union, later named after financier and Board of Trustees chair Robert Purcell, opened the following year.

The present programmatic layout of North Campus was initially proposed in 1997, by then-Cornell President Hunter R. Rawlings III.

Unlike most other traditional dormitories on campus, Risley is a residential college, meaning that the house members, "Risleyites", are encouraged to eat together at the in-house dining hall, can live as house members for all four or five years they spend enrolled at Cornell, and participate in educational activities, such as guest lectures, within their dormitory.

When constructed, the architect, William Henry Miller, was requested to design the floor plan such that no two rooms would be identical.

Various room features include balconies, fireplaces, dumbwaiter shafts, secret stairwells, bay windows, embrasures, and turrets.

Originally, each of the four halls were decorated differently in "Early American, Georgian, English Jacobean, and modern Gramercy Park".

Clara Dickson Hall also is home to the Multicultural Living Learning Unit, one of Cornell's residential program houses.

Donlon Hall, named after Judge Mary H. Donlon Class of 1920, is located north of Court and Mews Halls and houses 472 first-year students arranged in double rooms (with a few singles and two "quads," three-room-suites for four students, per floor), typically sized 12' x 18'.

George Jameson Hall and High Rise 5, completed in 1972, are two tall brick buildings on North Campus located at opposite sides of Robert Purcell Community Center.

The building is separated into two parallel halves, east and west, which are linked by a hallway and Lund study lounge.

The air-conditioned facilities include a TV/social lounge, piano, laundry, elevators, computer networking, bike storage room.

Akwe:kon, pronounced a-gway'-go, Residential College is the first university residence of its kind in the country purposely built for the interests of American Indians.It was established in 1991, and means "all of us".

The building has a large kitchen, several common areas (For both quiet studying and socializing), laundry facilities, and a bike room in the basement.

[11] The Jerome H. Holland International Living Center houses 144 students from the United States and other countries who would like to interact with people from across the globe on a daily basis.

Founded during the 1987-1988 academic year, JAM was originally located on West Campus in Class of 1926 Hall, housing about 200 undergraduate students.

The building contains a Performance Space, also called the "P-Space," complete with a sound system and stage lighting, which is used throughout the school term for concerts, programs, and rehearsals.

Founded in 1994, the Latino Living Center is located in Anna Comstock House, across the street from Risley Residential College.

The LLC's main program is its Cafe con Leche Series, in which student organizations make a presentation of cultural, educational or political relevance for the event.

Opened in 2019 in a section of Mews Hall, Loving House provides 30 beds and programming designed to create a supportive environment for LGBTQIA+ students.

[14] Designed by Von Storch and Barkavage of Waverly, Pennsylvania, it was originally developed as a 246-unit mix of apartments for married students, becoming available in 1961, though it was later opened to unmarried upperclassmen.

The same year, it and Day Hall, the main administration building, were occupied by student protesters after the firing of a black financial aid officer, departing after an injunction was issued.

[17] The alumni affairs office and Cornell Alumni Association remained until 2010, when the remaining staff were moved to offices in downtown Ithaca, and the building became home to several student programs, including the Office of Minority Educational Affairs (OMEA), which had been in Barnes Hall; the Asian/Asian American Center and the African Latino Asian Native American Students Programming Board (ALANA), which previously in Willard Straight Hall; and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center and the Alumni-Student Mentoring Program, which had been in Caldwell Hall.

Less than a year after the Willard Straight Hall Takeover, this building was destroyed by an arson fire, and the center was temporarily relocated to Low Rise 8 before moving to its present home at 310 Triphammer Road.

It contains North Star dining, a convenience store called Ezra's Emporium, a fitness center, and multipurpose rooms.

The facility included a dining hall, mailroom, game room, TV lounges, and performance space.

In 1982, it was renamed in honor of Robert Purcell of the Class of 1932, who had been chairman of the university Board of Trustees during the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s.