Residence Hall and Room Styles
A page within Residence Life
Learn more about our different styles of residence halls and room offerings by clicking on the options below. You can also find out more information about a specific residence hall or our housing rates & costs.
Cube, Wing, and Traditional Halls
To help with your comparison, please review these residence hall type descriptions. For more detailed descriptions, please visit the Residence halls section of our website.
What is a cube?
| Cube buildings are made up of two to three cube-shaped units, each with four stories. The units are connected by hallways and lounges. The outer walls of each cube contain the resident rooms, which are arranged around a shared bathroom and a common stairwell. |  Cube Diagram |
What is a wing?
| Wing-style residence halls feature long hallways with student rooms on either side. Each floor has a male-identifying, female-identifying and all-gender bathroom as well as a common area lounge. |  diagram of wing style residence hall |
What does traditional hall mean?
A traditional hall is a type of student housing where students live in standard double or triple rooms. They share common facilities, such as a large bathroom and lounge areas.
Traditional Double
What is a traditional double?
Traditional Triple
Traditional Triples are three-person, corner rooms in our cube halls: Angell, Coate, Drake and Hutchison Halls.
Suites & Apartments
What is an Eagle triple?
| An Eagle triple is a three-person room sharing a bathroom with the adjoining three-person room. |  Traditional eagle floor plan |
What is a Reuter apartment?
| The Reuter apartment is a one-person bedroom in an apartment with three other single bedrooms. The apartment features a common living room, kitchen, and bathroom for the four roommates. The image to the right is an example of one of 11 floor plans available in Reuter Hall. |  Apartment floorplan |
Extended Housing: Four-person Quad
Quads are a limited number of extended housing spaces accommodating four students available only in Wentz Hall. Quads are large rooms similar to the size of two regular double occupancy rooms or larger (size: approximately 30’ long x 12’ wide x 8’ high).
