Off-Campus Housing

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Contents 1 Bartleby Grove Apartments 1.1 Aspen Building 1.2 Birch Building 1.3 Oak Building 2 Other residences 2.1 Apartments 2.2 Houses

[edit] Bartleby Grove Apartments

This small apartment complex is overall well-maintained, with a blacktop parking lot and walkways leading to each of three buildings within -- Birch and Oak in the fore, and toward the rear, the low, long form of Aspen. Trees and shrubbery line the pathways, allowing a certain amount of quiet and privacy. Near the main walkway to each building, a large public bulletin board with a glass cover is available for postings. Judging from the decor and occasional posters and decorations, these apartments are largely inhabited by students of nearby Meridian College, or lesser faculty of same.

There are multiple buildings in the complex, and they differ slightly.

[edit] Aspen Building

The oldest of the buildings, and least expensive. Not as well maintained as the others.

Aspen is the oldest of the buildings in this complex, a three-story oblong that began life as a motel. It is now somewhat refurbished – all of the upper level landings on the second and third floors, as well as the stairwells, are enclosed with Plexiglass, and there are attempts made to maintain the grounds around the area. Each door on the ground floor opens onto the outside world, not onto a corridor. A small utility area at one end of the building holds the laundry room and some vending machines.

• Evelyn Waugh - 1D

[edit] Birch Building

Larger apartments good for sharing (2- and 3-bedroom).

A small, neat lobby painted in shades of blue and white boasts a line of locked mailboxes for each apartment, a small couch and loveseat placed at angles to a simple square table (all comfortably-worn), and inexpensive blue carpeting. The corridor beyond the main room, directly opposite the front door, leads to the first-floor apartments. An alcove holds the elevator that services the upper floors. A door opposite the elevators leads to the stairwell, and another door at the end of that alcove leads to the laundry room.

• Ernest Hemingway - 1B
• Lucy Montgomery and Karli Perrault - 2C
• Jack Donne and Bram Stoker - 2A
• Vivien Haigh-Wood (NPC) - 3A

[edit] Oak Building

Upmarket studio and 1BR apartments; the newest building.

A small, neat lobby painted in neutrals boasts a line of locked mailboxes for each apartment, a small couch and loveseat placed at angles to a simple square table (all comfortably-worn), and inexpensive tan-and-black carpeting. The corridor beyond the main room, directly opposite the front door, leads to the first-floor apartments. An alcove holds the elevator that services the upper floors. A door opposite the elevators leads to the stairwell, and another door at the end of that alcove leads to the laundry room.

• Omar Khayyam - 4D

[edit] Other residences

[edit] Apartments

• Nate Whitman: a loft-style apartment over the toy store in Bartleby, next door to Aurore Sandeau
• Eric Blair: another loft-style apartment over a business in town, in the same block as Ink Noir and Belly Beans
• Dash Hammett & Louisa Alcott are sharing a college-owned duplex on a street very close to the college.
• Nancy Boyd: Apartment over Braque's Antiques.
• Sun Wu: lives in an apartment building in town.

[edit] Houses

• Ailey Huxley, Vlad Nabokov, P. Shelley - 342 Lawn Avenue, a house a short distance from Genessee Avenue.
• Jane Austen, Ian Fleming - sharing a large house in the old, rich part of Bartleby.
• Nicole Machiavelli - Small house that used to be the coach house of a larger house in the historic district.
• Emilio Salgari - Dot Rothschild's family home.