Garden Neighborhood

The Garden Neighborhood is the most eclectic area of campus. It has the oldest house on campus (Sessions) and several pairs of houses that operate as unified communities. Garden houses are close-knit communities with strong social traditions including Sessions Halloween. Haven-Wesley features special movie nights.

Garden houses range in size from 14 to 108 students and embody a variety of architectural styles.

Houses

Comstock House

Capacity: 81

Gardiner House

Capacity: 83

Morrow House

Capacity: 83

Sessions Complex

Capacity: 52

Haven/Wesley

Capacity: 71

Haynes House

Capacity: 82

Wilson House

Capacity: 102

Area Director

Area directors are residence life professional staff members responsible for the management of a residential neighborhood. Area directors are here to support students in their neighborhood at every level—they supervise the student staff members of each house, they’re available for individual students to talk to about any problems they may be facing, and are a general resource to house communities within the neighborhood.

Stop by and say hello—get to know your area director!

Dawn Doucette-Kaplan

ddoucettekaplan@smith.edu

Office location: Comstock House basement

Take a virtual tour of the neighborhood