page_title: Stanford University student housing
section_title: Wilbur Hall
hierarchical_section_title: Stanford University student housing / East Campus (undergraduate) / Wilbur Hall
caption_attribution_description: West entrance to Wilbur Hall, Stanford University, California.
context_page_description: Since the founding, Stanford University has provided on-campus housing for students. Today, all undergraduate students, most graduate students, and many graduate employees use campus housing. While not all graduate students are eligible for campus or subsidized off-campus housing, of those that are, only 64% are able to take advantage of this opportunity due to the limited housing stock. Student Housing at Stanford is currently part of Residential & Dining Enterprises, an in-house standalone vendor within the Stanford affiliated network of businesses.
  Undergraduate housing is organized as being East Campus, West Campus, or the Row. East Campus has the complexes of Stern, Wilbur, and Gerhard Casper Quad and the standalone dormitories of Branner, Toyon, Mirrielees, and Crothers. West Campus has the complexes of Florence Moore Hall, Lagunita Court, and Governor's Corner and the standalone Roble Hall. The Row is on the south-east to south side of campus and consists of about 3 dozen houses housing between 25 and 60 students each. These include the 6 fraternity houses and 3 sorority houses. Married undergraduates or those with children are housed with graduate students.
context_section_description: Wilbur Hall houses 707 students in eight houses surrounding a common dining complex. It is named for Stanford's third president, Ray Lyman Wilbur. It was built in the late 1940s and represents an architectural departure from Stanford's usual theme of sandstone-colored, arcaded buildings with red tile roofs. Originally built for male students, it is now coed. The houses were named in Spanish. 
  Arroyo means creek. 
  Cedro means cedar but was also the name of a cottage on the Stanford land where Charles Lathrop, Jane Stanford's brother, lived. 
  Junipero means juniper. 
  Otero is small hill in Spanish. 
  Rinconada is named for the local Spanish land grant, Rancho Rinconada del Arroyo de San Francisquito, but, the word also means 'angle'.  
  Soto means thicket.
  Trancos is for another house that had existed on the Stanford land, Los Trancos Villa; tranco itself means threshold.  The last house, Okada, was originally named Madera for another local land grant, Rancho Corte de Madera, but was renamed Okada when it became the Asian American cross-cultural theme house.
  While Wilbur Hall has, at times, hosted a mix of upperclassmen and underclassmen, the Wilbur residences are now (2018/2019) all freshmen dorms except   the four-class Asian American theme house, Okada, and the upperclass only house, Trancos.
caption: West entrance to Wilbur Hall
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