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The Boston University housing system is the 2nd-largest of any private university in the United States, with 76% of the undergraduate population living on campus. [2] On-campus housing at BU is an unusually diverse melange, ranging from individual 19th-century brownstone town houses and apartment buildings acquired by the school to large-scale ...
575 Commonwealth Avenue is a dormitory at Boston University Until 2001 the building was a Howard Johnson hotel owned by the university. It is located in Kenmore Square next to the Rafik B. Hariri Building, which houses the Questrom School of Business .
Warren Towers, 18 stories in height, is the largest dormitory on the Boston University campus. Its three towers sit atop a four-story base structure. [6] The first three floors (and a basement) are a university parking facility; the fourth floor contains the dorm's lobby, dining hall, and other amenities including study lounges and laundry rooms.
In 1950, the building was bought and renamed to the Hotel Shelton. In 1954, Boston University bought the hotel and converted it to a girls-only dormitory of the same name. In 1953, playwright Eugene O'Neill died in suite 401 on the fourth floor. In his honor, the fourth floor was named a specialty housing area called the Writer's Corridor. [3]
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Myles Standish Hall is a Boston University dormitory located at 610 Beacon Street, in Kenmore Square. Originally constructed in 1925 and opened as the Myles Standish Hotel, it was deemed to be one of the finest hotels in the world. [1] In 1949, BU acquired the building and converted it into a dormitory.
The African Studies Library [4] (ASL) was founded in 1953 and is located on the sixth floor of the Mugar Memorial Library, accessible by the North elevator.Its primary function is to support Boston University's African Studies Center and all undergraduate, graduate, and faculty research on Africa.
Boston University boasts that there is a waiting list for researchers wanting to conduct research in the building. [2] The edifice was constructed out of three existing industrial buildings in 1983 when John Silber was Boston University's president. [3] [4] The building's modern atrium was originally a spacing between two of the original buildings.