Co-Ops are smaller houses where senior-class residents cook, clean, and shovel snow for themselves. Small groups of students can pick in to Co-Ops during the Co-Op Draw, which is held in during Spring Term. Co-Op housing provides students with an independent living experience, giving them an opportunity to discover what it's like to live on their own. Yet the co-ops are close enough to campus to provide the same connections to the rest of the community. Co-Op members keep their Neighborhood memberships, although co-op groups can be of mixed neighborhoods. Let's check out the houses!
Chadbourne
Chadbourne House was the former Haller Inn on Stetson Court, and is named for the Paul Ansel Chadbourne, Class of 1948, the 5th President of Williams. Chadbourne is tucked away, across from the Office of Admissions, but not too far away from the Science Quad or Spring Street. Students share a small common room, and a kitchen, and live in 10 singles and two double rooms. The double rooms are large, and one is a walk-through--like two singles joined together. Quiet, small, and beautiful, Chadbourne House could be the campus's best-kept secret!
Doughty
Doughty is as grand a house as you'll find, with an eat - in kitchen, a large living room with a grand piano, and four porches. Large single rooms house only 11 students. The beautiful stucco mansion is tucked away off of Spring Street and abuts Dennison Park, and boasts large front and back lawns perfect for barbecues, frisbee games, or sunbathing.
Lambert
Lambert sits on the corner of Walden and Hoxsey Streets, and has interesting architectural features like a front turret room. Lambert offers cozy co-op living with a nice and cheery kitchen with views down towards Spring Street. The living room has a fireplace, and the rooms are large and have big windows.
Milham
Milham House, on Hoxsey Street, has a large glassed in porch that wraps around the front, opening to a cherry paneled front hallway and staircase. Milham houses ten students, with one room a double. Renovated during the summer of '99, three nice rooms and a bath were created on the 3rd floor.
Poker Flats
Relaxing on a couch in a Poker Flats living room, looking north across Cole Field to snow capped hills, is one of life's simple pleasures. There are no fireplaces in the Poker Flats apartments, but in the Spring or Fall, plan to barbeque with your housemates and throw a frisbee (outside, that is, on the huge expanse of green, green grass!) There are six Poker Flats apartments, each housing six students. Apt C is accessible for the disabled.
The Rectory (offline beginning Fall 2008)
The Rectory is tucked away behind the Faculty Club and next to the '62 Center for Theatre and Dance. It is very close to the Paresky Student Center. The Rectory offers eight singles and a full size kitchen with two refrigerators. There is a beautiful living room with a fireplace, and a nice dining room with a big table where residents can share a meal. Because the College rents the Rectory from the church next door, we don't have floor plans to show you... but believe us -- the rooms are Co-Op living at it's finest! Unfortunately, 2007-2008 is the last year for the Rectory as a co-op. The College will no longer be renting the building for student housing.
Susan (Susie) Hopkins
Susie Hopkins, off the beaten path in Dennison Park, is an awesome co-op with a big front porch and a nice living room. A nice pantry off the kitchen can store at least 200 boxes of your favorite cereal or mac and cheese. Susie Hopkins houses nine students all in (huge) single rooms.
Woodbridge
Woodbridge House was named for Luther Dana Woodbridge, Class of 1872, a physician who taught anatomy and physiology at Williams from 1884 up to his sudden death, in Woodbridge House, in 1899. With a highly-acclaimed kitchen, Woodbridge is a great cozy house of 13 rooms (one a double). Students will find this co-op close enough to campus to not have to hike to class, yet tucked away on a quiet street to give a bit of privacy. A great spot if you need to use the Dance Studio in the '62 Center!
