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On-Campus Housing Available? Yes
Campus Housing Capacity 1,806
Average Housing Costs $5,676
Freshmen Required to Live on Campus? Yes
Undergrads Living On Campus 90%
Number of Dormitories 46
Best Dorms
  • Burton Hall
  • Townhouses
Worst Dorms
  • Evans Hall
  • Musser Hall

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Carleton has an interesting set of dorms. No one room in Burton Hall is the same, and it’s impossible to find your way around the twisting columns of Evans Hall. In the winter, it’s nice to live in Burton, Sevy, or Davis because they’re all connected to a dining hall, the post office, and the Snack Bar. If you don’t go to class, you won’t have to go outside. Goodhue is the farthest dorm from any academic buildings, but it’s the closest to the Rec Center. People say Musser is cool because you can draw on the tile walls with markers, but it’s really the last resort dorm. All floors are coed with a blend of freshmen and upperclassmen. This is the building block for social life at Carleton. Many students that shared a floor find themselves getting houses together as seniors. For freshmen, the dorms provide an opportunity to get involved with their community. The only complaint from upperclassmen is that freshmen stay up all night in the hallways playing UNO.

Interest houses provide an alternative to dorms. From Asia House to Farm House, there seems to be one for just about every hobby, ethnicity, or life philosophy. For those that have a Dungeons & Dragons fetish, there’s Sci-Fi House; for those ultra-feminists, there’s WA (Women’s Awareness).

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Campus Housing at Carleton College

griffisd

'12

Computer Science

3.1
B-

Housing Is Fine, Housing Administration Is Not

The actual housing at Carleton covers a pretty good range in terms of both age and quality (some older dorms have bats, faulty plumbing, etc, but the newer buildings are great, and everything's pretty well taken care of), with the upperclassmen housing options coming out on top. The housing office, however, is not the best to work with, as they seem to be more concerned with paperwork than the students.

Oct 13, 2011

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Campus Housing at Carleton College

durantp

'14

Psychology

4.2
A-

Housing on Campus

Housing at Carleton really is never that bad. Because students generally live on campus all four years, even the worst dorms are significantly nicer and more spacious than any big university dorms I've visited.

Oct 12, 2011

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Campus Housing at Carleton College

shakespearebabii

'12

English

4.2
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And It Was Good.

Though living in Musser is oddly reminiscent of living in a high security women's prison, most housing at Carleton went better than expected. There is a lot of complaining about dorms like Watson and Goodhue, but I have lived in both and I can report that they are both nice! Upperclassmen housing gets better -- triples, quints, and quads, oh my! and also better locations. The holy on campus grail is a town house your senior year. Make friends with someone who will be randomly assigned a great draw number.

Oct 12, 2011

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Student Survey Poll ResultsWhat's This?

Rate campus housing on the following subjects

Facts

Room Types
  • Doubles
  • Houses
  • Prime; private bathrooms shared between two rooms
  • Quads
  • Singles
  • Standard; students share community bathrooms
  • Suites
  • Triples
Bed Types
  • Bunkable beds
  • Twin extra-long
What You Get
  • Bed
  • Closet or wardrobe
  • Desk and chair
  • Dresser
  • Ethernet connection
  • Free campus and local phone calls
  • Window coverings
Also Available Check with Carleton's housing Web site to get more information on interest housing: webapps.acs.carleton.edu/student/housing/interest_cultural.

Available for Rent

Minifridges and microwaves

Cleaning Service

Public areas in dorms and most houses. Maintenance does a good job of keeping public bathrooms clean, especially after the weekend. Private bathrooms in dorms are not cleaned.

Did You Know?

Two students get paid for 10 hours of work a week to live in Dacie Moses House (the cookie house) to shop for cookie supplies and make brunch on Sundays.

Evans Hall was originally an all-women’s dorm. Architects designed the dorm to have confusing columns and stairways in order to discourage males from seeking out females.

Carleton is currently building two new dorms: Cassat Hall and Memorial Hall.

DormitoriesWhat's This?

Allen House
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 14
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Double, Prime Double
Special Features: Television rooms, kitchen, dining room, screened-in porch, and laundry

Art House
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 5
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard single and double
Special Features: Living area, kitchen, explore visual arts

Benton House (Science Fiction)
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 10
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, screened-in porch, laundry, explore the possibilities of humanity

Berg House (Women’s Awareness)
Floors: 2, plus basement
Number of Occupants: 8
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: No
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, screened-in porch, laundry, and garage, celebrates the diversity of women

Brooks House
Floors: 2, plus ground floor
Number of Occupants: 12
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, porch, laundry, smoke-free

Burton Hall
Floors: 4
Number of Occupants: 180
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Double, Triple, Quad
Special Features: Television lounges, hall kitchen, laundry, dining hall, smoking deck

Chaney House (Wellness House of Organization and Activism)
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 13
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, screened-in porch, laundry, grassroots political or social movements

Clader House
Floors: 1
Number of Occupants: 4
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room

Collier House
Floors: 2, plus ground floor
Number of Occupants: 12
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, porch, laundry

Colwell House
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 10
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, porch, laundry

Dacie Moses House
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 2
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, screened-in porch, laundry, cookie house

Davis Hall
Floors: 4
Number of Occupants: 103
Bathrooms: Adjoining private
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Double, Prime Single, Double, and Triple
Special Features: Television lounges, hall kitchen, attached to dining hall, laundry

Dixon House
Floors: 2, plus ground floor
Number of Occupants: 9
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television rooms, kitchen, dining room, screened-in porch, laundry

Douglas House (FISH)
Floors: 2, plus basement
Number of Occupants: 7
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television rooms, kitchen, dining room, screened-in porch, and laundry, share Christian faith

Dow House
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 10
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Quad, sextet
Special Features: Television room(s), kitchen, dining room, screened-in porch, and laundry

Eugster Townhouse
Floors: 2, plus ground floor
Number of Occupants: 16
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, porch, laundry

Evans Hall
Floors: 4, plus ground floor
Number of Occupants: 118
Bathrooms: Adjoining Private
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Double, Prime Single, Double, and Triple, Suite Quad and Quint
Special Features: Television lounges, kitchen, laundry, the cave, and study rooms

Faculty Club and Annex
Floors: 1
Number of Occupants: 21
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Double, and Triple
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, laundry

Farm House (Sustainable Living)
Floors: 2, plus basement
Number of Occupants: 13
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double, and Standard Triple
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, screened-in porch, laundry, farm, organic and sustainable environment

Geffert House (Green)
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 10
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, study, laundry, address environmental issues

Goodhue Hall
Floors: 4

Hall House (La Casa del Sol)
Floors: 2 + Basement
Number of Occupants: 9
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, laundry, and study room, Latino support

Hill House
Floors: 3
Number of Occupants: 25
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Double, and Triple
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, screened-in porch, laundry

Hunt Cottage (ASIA)
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 5
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, enclosed porch, laundry, library, cultural reinforcement, religious support

Hunt House
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 10
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, porch, laundry

Huntington House
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 16
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, laundry

Jewett House (Culinary)
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 10
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, screened-in porch, laundry, prepare and enjoy food

Musser Hall
Floors: 4
Number of Occupants: 141
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television Lounges, Kitchen, Study Room, Laundry

Myers Hall
Floors: 4
Number of Occupants: 10
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television lounges, kitchen, study room, laundry

Nason House
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 5
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, screened-in porch, laundry

Nourse Hall
Floors: 4, plus ground floor
Number of Occupants: 112
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Double, Triple, Quad
Special Features: Television lounges, kitchen, theater, elevator, laundry, all women’s floor

Owens House
Floors: 2, plus ground floor
Number of Occupants: 13
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, porch, laundry

Parish House (Language)
Floors: 3, plus basement
Number of Occupants: 44
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Double, and Triple
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, laundry, study room, rec room, and dining room, celebrate Russian, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese languages

Parr House (Sustainable Living)
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 5
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single
Special Features: Kitchen, dining room, screened-in porch, laundry, sustainable living

Prentice House (Queers and Allies)
Floors: 3, plus basement
Number of Occupants: 8
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, laundry, study room, LGBTA community

Reynolds House (Jewish Interest)
Floors: 2, plus Basement
Number of Occupants: 3
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single
Special Features: Television room, Kosher, kitchen, dining room, porch, laundry, study room

Rice House
Floors: 3, plus basement
Number of Occupants: 19
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double, Standard Triple, and Standard Quad
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, screened-in porch, laundry, and study room, substance-free

Scott House
Floors: 2, plus ground floor
Number of Occupants: 13
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, porch, laundry

Seccomb House (CANOE)
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 10
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: Television room, kitchen, dining room, screened-in porch, laundry, outdoor adventures

Severance (Sevy) Hall
Floors: 4
Number of Occupants: 58
Bathrooms: Shared by floor, In-Room
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Double, Prime Single, Double, and Suite Triple
Special Features: Television lounges, kitchen, laundry, dining hall, Great Hall

Stadium Apartments
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 22
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Double, Triple, Prime Double, Suite Triple, and Suite Sextet
Special Features: Kitchen, weight room, racquetball, football field, laundry

Stimson House (Multicultural Center)
Floors: 3, plus basement
Number of Occupants: 4
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: TV room, kitchen, dining room, laundry, social and educational programming

Watson Hall
Floors: 7
Number of Occupants: 161
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Freshmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Double, and Triple
Special Features: TV lounges, hall kitchen, laundry

Watson House
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 8
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: TV room, kitchen, dining room, porch, laundry

Williams House (Freedom)
Floors: 2, plus basement
Number of Occupants: 5
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single, Standard Double
Special Features: TV room, kitchen, dining room, porch, and study room, African American cultures and issues

Wilson House
Floors: 2
Number of Occupants: 5
Bathrooms: Shared by floor
Coed: Yes
Residents: Upperclassmen
Room Types: Standard Single
Special Features: TV room, kitchen, dining room, laundry

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