Student housing at Florida State University is governed by the Office of University Housing, and provides housing for undergraduates, graduate students, and professional students on and off-campus. Overall about 85% of first time in college students live in residence halls. In addition over 20% of all undergraduates live in student housing.[2]
Facilities at Florida State include 18 residence halls on campus with 6,712 residents. Undergraduates live in a majority of the residence halls.[1]
In 2009, the university celebrated the completion of a 15-year project that renovated the seven historic residence halls (built before 1950). The interiors were modernized while the original facades were retained. The construction began in 1992 with Jennie Murphree Hall and ended in 2006 with Landis Hall.[3]
All dormitories are co-ed with no single sex buildings. With few exceptions, all dormitories were constructed as suites with private bathrooms.[1]
Alumni Village was an 80-acre (32 ha) development of 96 buildings and 795 apartments southwest of FSU near Innovation Park. It opened when housing shortages forced schools across the country to provide living quarters for married, older, and foreign students. A-V was cheap, no-frills, not air-conditioned, brick apartments for $50–60 per month. The complex had childcare, playgrounds, tennis courts and picnic tables. Officially, the complex was Alumni Memorial Village because the street names were those of FSU graduates who recently died.[26]
Senior Hall was the original name. It was designed by architect Robert Fitch Smith and dedicated in 1961 to Dr. Mark H. DeGraff, a professor of education. With large windows and patios, it was considered luxurious compared to other dormitories.[27]
Seven stories with communal bathrooms, The original Deviney Hall was designed by Guy Fulton. It was named in honor of Ezda May Deviney, Zoology Professor at FSCW for 33 years. It was replaced in 2015 by a brand–new Deviney Hall.[28]
Eight stories, 125 rooms with communal bathrooms. It was named for Dr. Olivia Dorman, a classics professor who became the dean of students in 1934. She was popular for "modernized social rules regarding smoking, riding in cars, and dating." She also began a counseling program. It was replaced in 2015 by a brand–new Dorman Hall.[27]
Eleven stories, 282 rooms with communal bathrooms. Designed by architect Guy Fulton, named for John Gabriel Kellum, FSCW Business Manager 1907–1945.[27]
After an emergency exemption from the War Production Board, Magnolia Hall was built in 1944 and intended to house 154 students. Constructed of concrete blocks, it was the most fireproof building on campus. Although the structure was considered temporary, it was in use until July, 1979.[27]
Ten stories, 275 rooms with communal bathrooms. Designed by architects from Bail, Horton & Associates, named for Elmer Riggs Smith, who headed the math department at FSCW for 39 years and was also an FSU Football assistant coach in 1904.[27]
