List of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Undergraduate Dormitories - Senior House (E2)

Senior House (E2)

Senior House, is the oldest dormitory at MIT. Since its construction in 1918, it has served as the Institute's first dormitory and on-campus fraternity, a mixed undergraduate and graduate dorm, an all-graduate facility, a seniors' dormitory, and military housing during World War II. It is currently a co-ed residence housing 146 undergrads. The building is an L-shaped building directly adjacent to the residence of the President of MIT. A tower at the center of the North side features neo-classical columns that reflect the architecture of the original MIT Cambridge campus.

The building's street address is 4 Ames Street, but the mailing address is 70 Amherst Street, because the main entry was moved to what originally was the back of the building. Senior House has six entries:

• Ware
• Atkinson
• Runkle (John Daniel Runkle, second president of MIT)
• Holman (Silas W. Holman, professor of physics)
• Nichols (Ernest Fox Nichols, ninth president of MIT)
• Crafts (James Crafts, fourth president of MIT).

Each entry has four floors, except for Runkle, which has six. The entries are arranged in an L-shape around a central courtyard. After major renovations, Senior House is one of two MIT undergrad dorms with air conditioning (May through September).

Senior House alumni include Lawrence Summers (Economics, 1975), former president of Harvard University and formerly Secretary of the Treasury during the Clinton Administration; Bruce Morrison (Chemistry, 1965), United States Representative for the 3rd Congressional District of Connecticut, 1983–1991; Moshe Arens (Mechanical Engineering, 1947), former member of the Israeli Knesset, defense minister, and ambassador to the United States; Gordon S. Brown (Electrical Engineering, 1931), former Dean of Engineering at MIT and a pioneer in the development of automatic-feedback systems and numerically controlled machine tools.