List of University of Massachusetts Amherst residence halls
The quad also contains two volleyball courts that are open during the fall and spring season as well as hosts periodic academic celebrations that include games, activities, and food.
Northeast is one of the oldest residential areas on campus and has what one might call classic academic architecture, consisting of red brick buildings and gabled/shingled roofs.
[3] First year halls include Crabtree, Dwight, Hamlin, Leach, Mary Lyon, and Knowlton.
Renovated in 2020, this building contains a dining common, lounge area, café, fitness center, and meeting spaces.
[5] Central is unique because it has three academic buildings in addition to nine residence halls located along a hill on the east side of campus.
As of the 2009–2010 academic year, Gorman House become freshmen-only and discontinued the NUANCE theme and wellness floor.
Brett has had a reputation for being a popular option for student-athletes before the North Apartments were built, and still houses the freshman hockey players.
Van Meter is the largest dorm in the residential area in terms of residents, while Butterfield is the smallest and has a rich community history.
Cluster offices are located in James, Melville, Cance, Prince, MacKimmie, Pierpont, and in each of the five towers.
Additionally, Thoreau and Cance are home to the area office for the north and south portions of Southwest, respectively.
Berkshire also offers Late Night, a popular snack-oriented option open until midnight 7 days a week.
Hampden was initially planned to be a tower for graduate students and stories as to why it instead became a dining common vary, although the rumor of a construction collapse is not true.
The Connecticut River is a fault line and there may have been problems driving the pilings deep enough to reach bedrock but most reports are that the yield on the bonds was less than anticipated and they simply ran out of money.
Southwest housed approximately 50% of the students living on campus before new construction added North Apts and the Commonwealth Honors College Residential Community.
After both victories and losses by the New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox in 2002, 2003 and 2004, as well as after the December 2006 UMass defeat in the NCAA Division I-AA football championship game, students held large impromptu festive gatherings (also referred to as riots) in the Southwest Mall which led to injuries, incidents of property destruction, and significant police involvement.
Throughout the past few years, UMass administration has tried to control such “riots” from occurring by planning school run events in the residential area.
There were 15 arrests on the night of October 30, 2013. Pepper balls and smoke bombs were set off by police to disperse the rioting crowd and what started as a friendly community viewing of the baseball game turned into a frenzy of students running away from riot police.
Featuring six dormitory buildings, an advising center, offices, classrooms, and a cafe (Roots), it can house about 1,500 students.
In addition, if a student isn't able to find a room immediately, they are placed in the hotel at regular rates.
Draper Hall was one of them, built in 1905, the building served as one of the first woman's dorms as well as a dining common.
Many of its larger windows have since been filled in, and today it serves as office space for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
[15] This dorm suffered a disastrous fire in 1962[16] (flames spread rapidly through combustible ceiling panels) and was converted to office use until being razed in 1967 to make way for the John W. Lederle Graduate Research Center, but another woman's dorm, Butterfield, would be named in honor of President Kenyon Butterfield, the college president in the early 1920s and one of the proponents of the Adams House at the time it was built.
[17] The present day South College was once both a dormitory as well as a laboratory, the building was originally built in 1867 but was then rebuilt in 1885 due to a fire that gutted the insides.
[21][22] Another complex of dorms was built for married couples, veterans and upperclassmen in the 1940s just across the street from where Southwest stands today.
Currently Hampshire House is home to local NPR station WFCR, while Berkshire and Middlesex are used for storage and office space.
Hills House, two four-story buildings connected by a shared first floor lobby, was built as a men's dorm in 1960.
