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Los Angeles: Student Housing
Residence Halls
When Miss Mira Hershey gave the University
a women's residence hall in 1931, the gift marked the beginning
of a University student housing program that by 1965 would include
four additional University residence halls for men and women, a
series of men's cooperatives, and four women's cooperatives as well
as projects for housing married students. In addition, 27 fraternities
and 22 sororities recognized by the University provided living accommodations
each semester for about 738 men and 916 women students respectively.
The Renaissance-style Mira Hershey Hall
originally had a capacity of 131 women students; after completion
of a 1959 addition, 327 women were accommodated. Also in 1959, Clarence
Dykstra Hall was completed to house 806 men and was converted the
following year to accommodate 462 men and 340 women students. Dykstra
Hall was followed by Robert and Ida Sproul Hall in 1960, housing
408 men and 416 women; by Charles Rieber Hall in 1963, accommodating
414 men and 422 women students; and by Earle Hedrick Hall in 1984,
with the same accommodations as Rieber Hall.
Cooperative Housing
The first University Cooperative Housing
Association on campus was established by eight Los Angeles students
at Adams House, a rented property in Santa Monica, in 1935. By 1937,
the association rented additional houses in Brentwood and on Wilshire,
Hilgard, and San Vicente Boulevards for about 400 students. To purchase
an apartment house in 1938, the dean of the Department of Education
made the down payment in memory of his son, Everett Robison. Everett
Robison Hall was leased to the federal government to house meteorology
students during the war, when all cooperative houses were closed.
When the war ended, the University Cooperative Housing Association
was reactivated at Robison Hall. The association than bought Landfair
House in 1947 and in 1958, Essene Hall. All three operated as a
single unit with common dining and recreation facilities for 206
men students.
Among the women's cooperatives, the pioneer Helen
Matthewson Club was opened in 1923 for 26 women and closed in the
fall of 1965. Next was Kories, built as a YWCA in 1929 and converted
in 1936 to a student residence housing 34 women students. Twin Pines
Girls Cooperative was started in 1946 as the Josie Bruin Club, originally
an affiliate of Everett Robison Hall. Under its present name, it
housed 43 women students. Stevens House, built by the University
Religious Conference in 1946, became independent two years later
and housed 16 women in the mid-1960s.
Family and Veteran's Housing
The Veterans' Emergency Housing Project for
married students was established in1947 for 284 families, an occupancy
of 153 families in the mid-1960s. The Park Vista Married Students
Housing facility was opened in 1963 for 333 families, and the Sepulveda
Park facility opened in 1965 for 314 families.
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