List of Harvard College freshman dormitories
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List of Harvard College freshman dormitories

This is a list of dormitories at Harvard College. Only freshmen live in these dormitories, which are located in and around Harvard Yard. Sophomores, juniors and seniors live in the House system.

South of Harvard Yard on Holyoke Street, Apley Court has the most spacious rooms among the freshman dorms; accommodations include marble bathrooms. Formerly part of Adams House, it is the only one of the Gold Coast apartment buildings – luxurious private apartments built south of the Yard in the late 1890s – to now be a freshman dormitory. Notable residents have included T. S. Eliot.

Completed in 1974, Canaday Hall is the newest dormitory in Harvard Yard. Seen from the air, its seven buildings resemble a question mark. It is named after Ward M. Canaday, former president and major shareholder of Willys, manufacturer of Jeeps during World War II.

Canaday's construction immediately followed the 1969 student takeover of University Hall, and certain features of its design were meant to confound student organizing.[citation needed] There is a Muslim prayer space in the basement.

Residents have included Jillian Dempsey, Alexander Fällström, Charles Lane, Eduardo Saverin, Esther Lofgren, Ben Mezrich, David Sacks, Mira Sorvino, and Paul Wylie.

Opened in 1863, Grays became the college's first building with water taps in the basement. (Residents of other buildings in Harvard Yard had to haul water from pumps in the Yard.) Nicknamed "The Harvard Hilton", it is considered the most luxurious dormitory in the Yard.

Past residents include Jeff Bingaman, Rosa Brooks, Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Michael Cohrs, Jeremy Doner, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Langdon Gilkey, Charles Grier Sellers, Swinburne Hale, Julie Hilden, Marcial Lichauco, Norman Mailer, Malia Obama, Natalie Portman, Joseph Ransohoff, Frank Rich, Mo Rocca, Joshua Sharfstein, Don Sweeney, John Weidman, and Michael Weishan.

Located just outside the confines of Harvard Yard, Greenough is part of a group of dormitories outside the Yard called the "Union Dormitories". Past notable residents include Elliott Abrams, Bill Kristol, Wallace Shawn, Laurence Tribe, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and Colin Jost.

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