page_title: University of Scranton buildings and landmarks
section_title: Upperclassmen and graduate housing
hierarchical_section_title: University of Scranton buildings and landmarks / Residence halls / Upperclassmen and graduate housing
caption_attribution_description: English: The newly finished and dedicated (Fall 2011) Pilarz Hall on a cold December morning.
context_page_description: The University of Scranton’s 58-acre hillside campus is located in the heart of Scranton, a community of 75,000 within a greater metropolitan area of 750,000 people, located in northeast Pennsylvania. Founded in 1888 as St. Thomas College and elevated to university status in 1938, the University has grown and changed over time. Since 1984, the University has completed over 50 renovation projections. Over the past decade alone, the University’s campus has undergone a dramatic transformation, as the school has invested more than $240 million towards campus improvements and construction, including the Loyola Science Center, the DeNaples Center, Pilarz and Montrone Halls, Condron Hall, Edward R. Leahy, Jr. Hall, and the Dionne Green.
context_section_description: Upperclassmen and graduate students are offered apartments and houses.
  Linden St. Apartments: In 1999, the University purchased the Linden Street apartments from a private business owner to replace the residence houses demolished to make room for Brennan Hall. Located on the 1300 block of Linden Street, the Linden Plaza apartments are arranged as three-bedroom units, each complete with a kitchen, a living room, and a full bathroom. Katharine Drexel has an occupancy of 27, Dorothy Day has an occupancy of 27, and Elizabeth Ann Seton has an occupancy of 29. The apartments are divided into three named residences, each one in honor of women of faith and commitment to service of others: Dorothy Day, a prominent Catholic social activist and journalist who founded the Catholic Worker movement; Saint Katharine Drexel, the founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament who served as a missionary for Native Americans and African Americans; and Elizabeth Ann Seton, founder of the Sisters of Charity, a religious order that helped to establish the parochial school system in the United States.
  Madison Square: has 3 different apartment buildings with a capacity of 114. All Apartments offer a semi-private building entrance and a private apartment entrance. Madison Square rooms are mainly single occupancy, with limited double occupancy rooms. All of the apartments have full kitchens and living rooms.
  Completed in 2003, the Madison Square Apartments is a complex of three townhouses, each three stories. In total, the complex accommodates 114 students in 25 different apartments. Each building has three, four, five and six bedroom apartment suites. Each apartment style suite includes a kitchen and sitting room, and one bathroom for every two to three bedrooms. The three townhouses surround an outdoor garden area and courtyard. In one townhouse, the basement contains a lounge, conference area, and laundry area. The design of the Madison Square apartments closely resembles the layout of the award-winning Mulberry Plaza Apartments, which was recognized by the Boston Society of Architects, the largest branch of the American Institute of Architects, in its 2002 Housing Design Awards Program for design excellence. However, several distinct differences were tweaked by the architect to improve the complex. All apartments and bedrooms will be uniform in size, as opposed to the varying size of bedrooms and sizes of apartments in the Mulberry Complex, more central storage space and walls with a greater width of insulation will be added, and more common room space outside of individual apartments will be allotted. Construction involved the demolition of the Carter Apartments, a multistory residential complex that previously occupied the site. To date, only one of the three units has been named. In 2006, one unit was dedicated as Dexter Hanley House, in memory of Rev. Dexter L. Hanley, S.J., university president from 1970 to 1975. During his tenure as president, Father Hanley oversaw the university’s move to coeducation, increased enrollment, and approved a major revision of the undergraduate curriculum offering students much more flexibility while maintaining a common core rooted in the values of Jesuit education. To honor Father Hanley’s service and dedication to the university after his death in 1977, the university renamed the Evening College to the Dexter Hanley college. When the Hanley College was later merged with the Graduate School, Fr. Hanley’s memory was preserved on campus as one of the student townhouses in the Madison Square complex was named the Dexter L. Hanley House.
  Pilarz and Montrone Halls: house 396 students in two different buildings. All of the apartments in the new buildings are either 2 or 4 person occupancy and all of the rooms are single occupancy. While Montrone holds 40 four-bedroom suites, accommodating up to 160 students, Pilarz holds 54 four-bedroom suites and 10 two-bedroom suites, accommodating 236 students. These buildings offer a state of the art fitness center with gym equipment, locker rooms, and showers as well as a
caption: Pilarz Hall
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