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The University of Massachusetts Amherst housing system is made up of six dormitory areas, two apartment areas, and one hotel. At UMass Amherst, first year students are required to live on campus. Housing is open to all full-time undergraduate students, regardless of year.
Entrance to the renovated Blue Wall. The Blue Wall is a former dive bar and current food court at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Opening inside the Murray D. Lincoln Campus Center in the 1970s, the bar made upwards of $600,000 in the late 1970s (over $2,300,000 in 2013 dollars), and went through 1,800 kegs a year.
Formerly the DoubleTree Hotel, the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center was bought in 2009 by the university. The building included a restaurant open to the public, function halls, year-round hotel rooms and residence hall space. It is located in downtown Lowell and used to be the site of many university and community events.
At 18 stories and 226 feet (69 meters) in height, it is the tallest building in the city of Lowell. When it was built, it was known as the Lowell Technical Institute Dormitory. The building is home to more than 800 students and UMass Lowell's largest student-dining hall, Fox Dining Commons. [3]
The William Wheeler House, also known as Wheeler Hall, is a dormitory in the Central Residential Area of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [1] [2] Designed by Louis Ross, who designed many of the other dormitories on campus as well as the university's Student Union, the Wheeler House was built in the Georgian revival style with art deco accents.
The building also hosts Hotel UMass (formerly The Campus Center Hotel) on floors three through seven of the building. The hotel consists of 114 rooms. Between 2008 and 2009, the hotel was renovated by Eastern General Contractors of Springfield, MA under the direction of architectural firm Gensler.
UMass and the PVTA, employing student workers, provide campus bus service throughout both the UMass Amherst campuses and the northern region of the PVTA service area. The campus bus system was established in 1969 as the Student Senate Transit Services (now UMass Transit). In 1973, a demonstration grant secured money to set up a fare-free ...
The Scott Joplin House State Historic Site is located at 2658 Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It preserves the Scott Joplin Residence, the home of composer Scott Joplin from 1901 to 1903. The house and its surroundings are maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources as a state historic site.