Information on this page:

• Overview
• General Information
• Residences
• House Facts
• Furnishings
• Floor Plan

Overview

The Suites are composed of four apartment-style houses that are home to 266 upperclass residents. Each house—Anderson, Marx, Griffin, and Jenkins—offer living space in four- six- and eight-bedroom suites with a bathroom and living room. On the 1st floor of each building, there is a laundry room and kitchenette. Groups of four or eight students will receive automatic priority to live in the four- or eight-person suites. Groups of three or six will get an automatic priority for six-person suites.

Suites (and Dining Societies) in Governor’s Corner opened for students in the winter of 1982 after extensive planning for various buildings began in 1978. This was an answer to a housing need for 800 new students. A committee made up of students, staff, and faculty wrote the program for this complex, describing what would go into the new spaces. In phases from 1982-1983, Stanford opened several structures—Independent Houses, Suites and Dining societies, the Elliott Program Center, and Sterling Quadrangle.

Within Suites, four residences are named after former Stanford academic leaders and faculty members: Melville Best Anderson, first head of English department; James Owen Griffin, invited by President Jordan to form the first faculty; Oliver Peebles Jenkins, first professor of Physiology, Zoology, and decided location for Hopkins Seaside lab; and Charles David Marx, first faculty in Civil Engineering, and also a Stanford University Vice President.

Dining Societies
Students assigned to the Suites are required to take a meal plan at one of the Dining Societies—Avanti, Beefeater, Bollard and Middle Earth. The Dining Societies are student-run organizations that offer a variety of eating plans and sponsor social activities.

For information on the accessibility of residences for both living and visiting, please reference our Undergraduate Residences Accessibility Summary chart.

General Information

Residences

Anderson
Griffin
Jenkins
Marx

House Facts

Furnishings

Bathroom

4- and 6-person suites have one private bathroom, 8-person suites have two private bathrooms, each with a sink, toilet, and shower.

Sample Floor Plans

4-person suite- Top view

6-person suite- Top view

8-person suite- 1st floor view

8-person suite- 2nd floor view