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Myles Face-lift, Part One

BU’s oldest dorm is becoming its newest dorm

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This is the third year that Janet Araque has called Myles Standish Hall home. While Araque (ENG’18) fondly remembers her previous homey rooms, she prefers her newer, spiffier digs in the west half of the building, which has undergone a massive modernization and preservation (and yes, those two words are not mutually exclusive). It reopened to students this fall.

“There are actually several electric outlets in my room now,” Araque says with a laugh. “I have air-conditioning. I don’t have to walk through my roommate’s room to get to the bathroom. There’s even a communal kitchen that so many people in the building use.”

Each of the three parts of Myles Standish Hall is in a different phase of construction—the west half of Myles is completely renovated, the east half is currently a construction zone, and the Annex hasn’t been touched. Scheduled for completion in August 2018, the $133 million, LEED-registered remake will increase the number of private bedrooms and include modern amenities, study rooms, a game room, music practice rooms, a community kitchen, and a new public park, flanked by elm and maple trees and benches. Eventually 730 students will occupy the building.