page_title: Missouri State University
section_title: Campus housing
hierarchical_section_title: Missouri State University / Residential life / Campus housing
caption_attribution_description: English: Sunvilla Tower is an apartment complex owned by Missouri State University, located in downtown Springfield, Missouri
context_page_description: Missouri State University, formerly Southwest Missouri State University, is a public university in Springfield, Missouri. Founded in 1905 as the Fourth District Normal School, it is the state's second largest university campus by enrollment, with an official enrollment of 23,450 in the fall semester of 2019. The Springfield campus is one of two degree-granting institutions operated by the school, the other being a two-year campus in West Plains, Missouri. An associate degree in arts and a bachelor's degree in business is offered at Liaoning Normal University in China. In addition to its main campus, MSU maintains a fruit research station in Mountain Grove, Missouri and the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies program in Fairfax, Virginia.
context_section_description: The Missouri State University main campus contains eight residence halls and two apartment buildings. Wells House, the university's first campus residence hall, houses 490 students. Freudenberger House (referred to by students as "Freddy") is a five-story, U-shaped residence hall, designed with 2-, 3- and 4-person rooms to accommodate 740 students on single-gender floors. Woods House provides 376 students with accommodations on single-gender floors and features a 10th floor common area with sweeping views of the surrounding area. Blair-Shannon House accommodates 729 students in a suite-style format with the living areas on co-ed floors. Hammons House is an eight-story residence hall that accommodates 584 students on co-ed floors. A twin residence hall of Hammons House, Hutchens House is an eight-story residence hall offering housing accommodations for 605 students on five co-ed floors. Scholars House provides lodging for 115 students who are Honors Program participants. Kentwood Hall, originally built as the luxury Kentwood Arms Hotel (1926) and whose guests included President Harry S. Truman and comedian Groucho Marx, accommodates 101 upper-class transfer students. The Sunvilla Tower is an 18-story apartment facility that houses 186 upper-class students in a coed environment.
  Computer labs, laundry rooms, kitchen facilities, and public meeting/study spaces are located in every one of the university's residence halls. Available services include free laundry, Philo streaming internet protocol TV service, WI-FI, and 24-hour front desk assistance. Within select houses are floors designated as "Living-learning Communities" (or LLC's). These have a particular theme that is either academically based or interest based. All residential areas are smoke and tobacco free.
  Citing the proven detrimental health effects of tobacco use, effective August 15, 2010, Missouri State University enacted a policy further restricting the use of tobacco products and smokeless tobacco on the campus.
caption: Sunvilla Tower
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