<p>I'm trting to decide which dorm I want to stay in... I get to choose between Lowell and Leverett over the summer because I know people living there. What do you think?</p>
<p>I preferably want the prettier one with the bigger rooms and workign facilities... Please help.</p>
<p>Lowell is slightly closer to most stuff.</p>
<p>Prettiness and bigger rooms do not go together. Both Old Leverett and Lowell have pretty similar and equally attractive facilities, although Lowell is lightly closer to the Square and Old Leverett has hardwood floors (as opposed to linoleum) and gets better breezes in the summer. New Leverett is ugly, but the rooms are all gigantic singles.</p>
<p>Is New Leverett the two towers? (F and G)?</p>
<p>Is it old or new leverett that will be open to summer school students? Also, is leverett suite style liek lowell... or not?</p>
<p>New Leverett means F and G towers. The Old Leverett suites aren't that different from Lowell suites (fireplaces, common rooms plus smallish bedrooms, old-school pane windows, walk-up entryways). New Leverett is completely different -- no style, but tons of space, light, and privacy.</p>
<p>I don't know how the summer school assigns spaces. It usually changes each year depending on what's up for renovation.</p>
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<p>The Harvard Houses are undergoing renovation? I'm surprised to hear that. Yale's in the middle of a huge renovation project that I heard brought up a million times in my visit there; no Harvard kids ever mentioned anything similar?</p>
<p>It's not like what's going on at Yale. But sometimes a particular dining hall or set of rooms will get a bunch of work in the summer, and they'll use other space to house summer students. When I was in summer school, IIRC only four of the river houses were occupied.</p>
<p>I know for a fact that they are using New Leverett because that's where I'm assigned. I'm not sure if they're using Old Leverett. I do know that they're using Leverett, Lowell, and Kirkland for the Summer School Program and then the yard dorms and Quincy for the high school kids.</p>
<p>Hanna is right. Buildings are constantly being painted, touched up, rewired, having leaks fixed etc., on a regular rotation, without the need for total gutting and overhaul.</p>
<p>One of the reasons that such extensive overhaul became necessary at Yale was that routine maintenance was postponed or overlooked for so long during the period of operating deficits.</p>
<p>so what would u choose: new leverett or lowell? I gotta de cide soon... stopps what class are you taking?</p>
<p>Depends whether you care more about space and privacy or about that "Old Harvard" feel.</p>
<p>from new leverett, can we still enter old leverett... my parents are ocming to visit in the middle of my term there and i wanna show them the historical harvard...</p>
<p>ifeeldumbhere- I'm taking math 1b.
also... even if old leverett isn't open, there should still be a bunch of buildings that will be open that would be examples of "historical harvard." (many of the freshman dorms for example)</p>
<p>Yeah, I was going to say that if you have a Harvard ID, chances are good that someone living in one of the Old Yard dorms like Mass Hall or Hollis will let you in to show your parents. It'll be real Colonial architecture instead of a twentieth-century recreation. (Old Leverett was built around WWI and Lowell in the 1930's, so they're not actually as old as they look.)</p>
<p>Lowell House was built in 1930, thanks to a gift from a wealthy Yale grad named Harkness. It was one of the first of the Havard "houses". Harkness helped buid them to launch the "house system" after Yale turned him down, thinking the idea too radical..</p>
<p>Later, when Yale saw how nicely they turned out, they changed their mind, and importuned Mr. Harkness to build a copy of the "house system at Yale, where the residence halls were dubbed "colleges."</p>
<p>This the same Harkness of Harkness Commons "the Hark" @ Dartmouth?</p>
<p>And the law school at the University of Michigan.</p>
<p>Also, there will be construction going on near F tower in Leverett, so be warned...</p>
<p>Harkness was a cool guy-major benefactor of Andover, Exeter, St. Pauls, as well as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth...the list goes on.</p>