Progress continues on pace for the new sophomore dorms on North Elm Street, this according to Ms. Amy Salot, Director of Residential Life. The construction will be complete sometime this spring, and the dorms will be near readiness by the time of graduation. They will officially open in July.
Each dorm will house four faculty families and forty students. The two dorms are connected by a walkway and by a quad in between them. Ms. Salot explained that each dorm will have three levels with laundry facilities in the basement; each floor is separated into two wings of ten students each, with a faculty family assigned to each wing. The goal of this arrangement is to make each floor seem smaller and cozier, rather than large and open like the hallways of Archbold or Logan Monroe. Also, this set-up will help make the dorms appeal to students who want to live in a smaller dorm setting. The separation will also help deal with the issue of noise control, which will definitely be an advantage for the faculty families living in the dorms.
Ms. Salot stated that each wing will be separated by a common room, each of which will have a kitchenette and glass walls looking out onto the baseball fields. Prospective prefect and junior Mari-Taylor Troutman said, “The doubles and the singles are really big, and the kitchenettes in the common room are a huge plus.” She also likes the built-in closets in each room. Lizzie Manning, also a junior and a prospective prefect, said, “The green in between the two dorms is going to be great because it will be a new hang-out zone for the new sophomores.”
Ms. Salot believes that the dorms will help re-orient the social map away from Memorial and Nichols and more towards Archbold and Hill House. Though the new dorms seem removed from the rest of campus, they are closer to Hill House, the St. John math building, the Seymour St. John Chapel, and Worthington Johnson Athletic Center than many existing dorms. Another advantage of the dorms is that they are truly engineered towards the Choate lifestyle. The administration and the architects worked hard to build two dorms that are structurally big but create a smaller dorm environment.
Ms. Salot explained that the architects also worked to make the dorms blend in amongst the other houses on Elm Street so that they do not seem too prominent and overbearing. From the baseball fields the dorms will have a much larger exterior appearance. The dorms are also as environmentally friendly as possible within financial constraints. These new dorms will be an exciting new addition to the living accommodations for the students and faculty here at Choate Rosemary Hall.
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