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Paterson House

Doing Well By Doing Right
The Paterson House Wellness Community offers you the opportunity to explore all aspects of a sustainable lifestyle, from a healthy self to a healthy community. Seminar discussions, wilderness adventures, community dinners, and faculty events will give you a chance to stretch, step, and paddle in a new direction, and to help build a healthy, environmentally friendly community right here on campus.

Paterson is a small residence hall with a large kitchen, comfortable community room, and shaded outdoor patio. Optional activities and events for Paterson residents focus on all facets of wellness: personally, in the community, and globally. These events include:

  • Weekly on-site yoga classes
  • Community vegetarian and vegan-friendly potlucks
  • Faculty perspectives on rebuilding a healthy city
  • Outdoor adventure trips featuring opportunities to learn wilderness and leadership skills
  • The Common Purposes: Communities in Action social justice program series featuring interactive lecture/discussion segments on topics such as civic engagement, power and privilege, servant leadership, and social action

In other words, at Paterson Hall you can enjoy canoe trips, hiking, camping, vegan/vegetarian eating, yoga, environmental awareness, recycling, social justice and more!

Offered in collaboration with Reily Recreation Center, the Green Club, the Center for Bioenvironmental Research, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs


Paterson Hall

Paterson Hall is named for Board Member Albert Barnett Paterson. Paterson's unique floor plan features rooms that open off a central hallway, while others are entered from an external balcony. Rooms located on a central hallway are double occupancy with community bathrooms. The rooms on the external balconies are four-person suites with a shared bathroom. Renovated in the mid 90's, Paterson is equipped with moveable, Shaker-style, wood furniture; extra long twin beds; and is coeducational by interior floor or by suite in the exterior stations of the building. On the first floor is a large common room that features a pool table, large screen TV, and adjacent kitchen. The laundry room is just around the corner. Paterson also features a first floor study room, a computer lab on the second floor, and a large study room on the third floor.

Amenities & Other Details
Study Lounge - Floors 2 & 3
Vending Machines - In Lobby
Laundry - Floor 1
Kitchen - Floor 1
Computer Lab - Floor 2

Floor Plans
Paterson Hall Building Plan
Disclaimer: Please note that through recent renovations, facility upgrades and/or conversions, this floor plan may have a limited number of mis-labeled rooms. If you have questions, please ask us via e-mail applyhrl@tulane.edu.

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Room Dimensions
A/C Unit

  • 22 in high
  • 59 in wide
  • 9 in deep
  • 14 in from window

Sink

  • 32 in from floor
  • 19 in wide

Windows on far wall

  • 60 in high
  • 36 in wide
  • 3 in each room

Dresser

  • 35 in wide
  • 56 in high
  • 19 in deep
  • Drawers
    • 2 small drawers, 5 in high
    • 4 large drawers, 8 in high
  • One in each room

Desk

  • 47 in wide
  • 30 in high
  • 22.5 in deep

Bookshelf

  • 30 in wide
  • 30 in high
  • 12 in deep

Bed Frame

  • Extra-long twin mattress (80 in long)
  • 88 in long
  • 39 in wide
  • Adjustable height
  • Frames can be bunked

Extras

  • Overhead ceiling light
  • Light above medicine cabinet
  • 3 electrical outlets
  • 1 phone jack
  • 1 cable connection
  • 2 ethernet connections, box is only on one side of the room

 

Suite Rooms

Main door
  • 79 in high
  • 32 in wide

Window next to main door

  • 81 in wide
  • 60 in high

Suite Bathroom door

  • 79 in high
  • 29 in wide
  • 2 towel hooks on room side of door

Medicine Cabinet

  • Mirror on outside
  • 26 in high
  • 16 in wide
  • 3 in deep
  • 2 or 3 plastic shelves

Closet

  • 28 in deep
  • 32 in wide
  • Hanging bar
  • Shelf over hanging bar
    • 19 in from ceiling
    • 19 in deep
  • Door
    • 30 in wide
    • 80 in high
  • One door opens outward

 

Double Rooms

Main door

  • 80 in high
  • 36 in wide

Many 2nd- and 3rd-floor doubles have access to a balcony shared with neighbors. The balcony door is opposite the room door and is the same size.

Medicine Cabinet

  • Mirror on the outside
  • 36 in high
  • 18 in wide
  • 4 in deep
  • 2 or 3 plastic shelves

Closet

  • 27 in deep
  • 36 in wide
  • Hanging bar
  • Shelf over hanging bar
    • 40.5 in from ceiling
    • 15.5 in deep
  • Sliding closet doors