Jewett House
Jewett House was the first of Vassar's traditional residence halls to undergo a complete renovation. The Master Plan for Residential Life will eventually update all of Vassar's dorms while preserving their architectural integrity. Built in 1907, the residence hall was originally called "North" because of its position on the quad. Henry MacCracken, president of the college in 1915, decided to rename the building after Milo P. Jewett, whose liberal views on how women should be educated were instrumental in the creation of the college. Jewett House and its nine-story tower have housed thousands of Vassar students and evoked a good number of legends. It is said, for example, that the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, class of 1917, dramatically threw herself out of the tower (her fall broken by the third-floor roof), and that the ghost of an early Jewett resident still haunts a fourth-floor hallway, her footsteps echoing behind students making their way to and from their rooms. Jewett's current capacity is 195 students.
Residence Halls
- Cushing House
- Davison House
- Milo Jewett House
- Olivia Josselyn House
- Lathrop House
- Main House (the residential areas of Main Building)
- Emma Hartman Noyes House
- Raymond House
- Strong House