ES Harkness Hall
Built in 1955, and renovated in the late 1990’s, ES Harkness Hall consists of 172 single occupancy bedrooms. Each floor has 21 or 22 rooms. Residents are assigned into room on the 4th -11th floors. All floors are co-ed except for one all male floor (6th Floor) and one all female floor (8th Floor). There also is a Quiet Floor (11th Floor) for students looking to live in an intentionally quiet environment. There are two (2) elevators that access the upper floors in Harkness. For security purposes, resident students need to use their ID card to activate the elevators for access to the residential floors.
Harkness dormitory is adjacent to the Yale School of Medicine and located directly across the street from Yale New-Haven Hospital. While a majority of students choosing to live at Harkness are from the Med School, Nursing, or EPH, the resident community often has students from the School of Art, Architecture, Law School, and GSAS.
There is one large shared bathroom on each floor that is co-ed. (The bathrooms on the gender specific floor are gender specific!) There are doors on all shower and bathroom stalls for individual privacy.
Rooms have standard university provided bedroom furniture: extra-long twin-sized bed frame & mattress, desk, and desk chair. All bedrooms contain a vanity with sink and mirror. There is limited overhead lighting, so residents should bring additional lighting for their desks.
In addition, Harkness rooms are provided with an internet port, cable television port, and telephone port. Students must activate the telephone port (via Yale University Telecom services) to use the land-line telephone system. There is a separate charge for use of the telephone (and long-distance charges) but no additional charges for accessing the internet or cable tv. Students accessing the Yale network must register their computers at www.yale.edu/netreg, for full use of the internet. All of Harkness is on the University’s wireless network for student convenience!
There are 4 kitchenettes within the building on the 4th, 7th, 9th, and 11th floors. The kitchenettes contain a stove and oven unit, microwave, sink and small countertop area, as well as a full size freezer. All students in the building share the kitchen resources. Students intending to use the kitchenettes are expected to bring their own cookware and utensils. Students are encouraged to bring mini-refrigerators for their rooms as the kitchenettes only contain full size freezers.
Mail is received by the US Postal system Monday – Friday and distributed to student mail boxes. Student packages are received by the Harkness Housing Office and available to students during office hours but also at evening and weekend Package Pick-up hours from the Harkness Housing Office.
The basement of Harkness contains a student laundry room, small storage rooms for student items, and the Harkness gym. All students living in Harkness have an automatic free membership to the Harkness gym.
The gym is accessible to several other members of the med school and hospital community. Other individuals can apply for Harkness Gym Membership for an annual fee.
The ground floor Harkness Housing Office, is open Monday thru Friday with University staff and during limited evening and weekend hours with student staff.
Rooms in Harkness Dormitory vary in size.
| Room dimensions | ||
| Small | 13'11"x 9'10" | approx. 135 sq. ft. |
| Medium | 13'6" x 10'8" | approx. 144 sq. ft. |
| Large | 14'8" x 11' | approx. 161 sq. ft. |
| Extra Large | 10'10" x 13'6" and 10'5"x 10'8" | approx. 250 sq. ft. |
All Harkness dormitory residents are required to participate in a mandatory meal plan provided by Marigold’s, which is operated by Medical School Dining Services. To learn more about the Marigold’s meal plan and the dining operations, please review the Dining Services web site.
Last Updated: July 29, 2009 (kp).
