Common Spaces in Adams House

Rooms for General Student Use

Computer/FAX/Copier Room: ground floor of C Entry. Swipe your ID card to enter. Copies are 6 cents, local faxes are free. The computers and printers are administered by the FAS Help Desk, and problems should be directed to help@fas.

TV room (Diaspora Room): ground floor of I Entry, to the left of the Linden St. door. Reserve time by using the sheet on the door, get the TV lock combination in the Super�s office.

Adams House Library: C Entry, up the stairs from the Gold Room. Available for studying during open hours and movie rentals. The House Librarian is Paula Trippett ([trippett@fas|mailto:trippett@fas.harvard.edu). For library hours and more information, please visit the House Library website.

Molotov Cafe: On the ground floor of D-entry; look for the "Explosives B" door. Serving up old fashioned Adams House charm at night, with food and drinks for purchase, cable TV, and other diversions. For more information, please visit the Molotov Cafe website.

Rooms Reserved through the House Office (schaknis@fas)

Small Dining Room: off the main dining hall. Often used for language tables, the SDR is available for general dining unless otherwise reserved.

Lower Common Room (LCR): in C Entry. Casual student use, music rehearsals and performances. Use of the locked grand piano and organ is by audition and permission of the music tutor, David Trippett (3-2081, [trippett@fas|mailto:trippett@fas.harvard.edu).

Upper Common Room (UCR): above the LCR in C Entry, up the stairs past the Library. May be reserved for student meetings.

Brower Room: in C Entry near the Superintendent�s Office, next to the computer lab. Used for tutorials or seminars and seats 10 people.

Coolidge Room: Randolph Court, Room H-2. A seminar room for up to 15 people.

Claverly Meeting Room: Basement, where the Debate Club used to roam. A seminar room for up to 20 people.

Room Keys available from Superintendent

Music Practice Rooms: in C and B Entries. Available 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. weekdays, 11:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. weekends. Sign up sheets for specific hours are posted on the doors by the music tutor, David Trippett (3-2081, [trippett@fas|mailto:trippett@fas.harvard.edu). Keys can also be purchased for a $10 deposit through Sophia Chaknis in the House Office.

Student Kitchen & Adjoining Dining Room: ground floor of H Entry. Any problems with kitchen equipment should be reported to the Superintendent.

Pool Table Room: Basement of E entry, next to the vending machine. Get key and gaming equipment from the Super's Office.

Claverly Hall Common Room: first floor of Claverly across from the laundry room. Open 24 Hours unless someone locks the door by accident, it has a VCR and TV. Reserve it with the Claverly guard.

All About Apthorp House

Teas: Friday afternoons once a month from 4:30-6pm. All Adams House residents, friends and relations are most welcome! Great food, music, talking, making new friends, hanging out, relaxing. If you want to bake or cook or help set up, or work on a cultural or musical theme for one of the teas, call the Masters at 3-7878. For a schedule of teas, please check the House Calendar.

Apthorp Library: Lots of wonderful books, especially fiction, children�s books, illustrated books, art books, history, religion, philosophy. The books belong to the Palfreys, and many are precious to them; they love to have them looked at, but please do not borrow them without discussing it with them first.

Seminar Space: Please talk to the Palfreys about any ideas you have for special events, and they will announce all open events held there, such as Life Seminars, dinners and receptions.

Prop Shop: In the basement is a prop shop/woodworking shop that may be used by anyone in Adams House. It is accessed by swipe card through the cellar door, but you must ask Jorge to program in your ID number. Once certified that you can use the power tools safely, he will email Sean, Matt, and Jorge, and we can program your card.

Prop Shop Use Guidelines:
1. Please do not work in the shop before 10 AM or after 10PM.
2. Please clean up thoroughly after yourself. There is a vacuum cleaner and a broom in the room.
3. Please do not take tools out of the prop shop except to the Pool or the Kronauer space, in which case they must be signed in and out in the book.
4. If there are tools you think we should consider getting, please talk to Sean (spalfrey@fas) or to Matt (corriel@fas).

Ping pong and pool table: In the cellar, past the prop shop and also accessible with the swipe card, is a room with a convertible pool/ping pong table. These may be used most of the time between 10 AM and 10 PM, except when there are events happening on the first floor.

Apthorp Basement Use Guidelines
1. Please be careful with the table tops and equipment.
2. Please try not to make too much noise, and keep the place very clean.
3. There is a refrigerator there which often has soda in it, and there may be pretzels or other snacks there, to which you are welcome.
4. Please do not go into the other rooms in the cellar. These are private spaces.

Your ideas: If you have ideas for special uses of Apthorp House, please talk to the Palfreys. They have had sleep-overs for children in the STRIVE Program and scary Halloween events in the cellar.

Apthorp Attic Project: Sean is planning to refurnish one side of the unrestored attic space of Apthorp House (built in 1761) as it might have been when it served as barracks in the Revolutionary War, and the other side as it might have been when it was a dorm at the turn of the last century. (There are some very evocative drawings on some of the walls.) Sean is hoping to interest one or several students in researching this for a term paper or a thesis. If you are interested, or know of someone who might be, please let him know.

Rooms Reserved through Tutors/Students:

Darkroom: in the basement of Randolph Hall underneath H Entry, fully equipped with basic B&W developing and printing equipment. Supervisor is Michael Nitsch.

Weight Room and Cardio Room: along the basement corridor under G Entry. Purchase a key from the House Office for $10. The rooms include free weights, an elliptical machine, treadmill, and cable TV in the cardio room.

Experimental Theater (Kronauer Space): basement of Randolph. Contact Matt Corriel, resident drama tutor (corriel@fas).

ArtSpace Studio/Gallery: Two lower squash courts used for student-organized shows and shows of student work. Some studio space available in upper court. Contact arts tutor Tom Howell (tshowell@fas) if you are interested in drawing, painting, sculpture, exhibiting work, or other projects.

Pool Theater: first floor of B Entry. Contact Matt Corriel, resident drama tutor (corriel@fas) about using this 80 seat theater.

The Bow and Arrow Press: below B Entry near the Pool Theater. The Bow & Arrow Press is a letterpress printing shop, for teaching typography, design, printing, bookbinding and other related book arts.

Laundry Rooms

The laundry room for the two main buildings is located in the basement of C Entry. In Claverly, the laundry room is located on the first floor, down the hallway to the right of the staircase. Washers and dryers are $1.00 (dryers are 75� in Clav), in quarters or Crimson Cash. A change machine is available in the C entry room; vending machines for snacks, soda, and juice are available in both buildings.

Video Game Machine

The video game machine is usually located in the hallway across from the laundry room, for you serious 8-bit enthusiasts.

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