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Case Western Reserve University Dorm Room Dimensions

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Case Western Reserve University has room-dimension data for 22 residence halls. Published room sizes range from about 90 to 185 sq ft, with a median of 116 sq ft. Find exact width × length and square footage for each hall below, then preview your layout in the visualizer.

Alumni House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
single9 × 10 ft90 sq ft

What's included

  • Single: 9' x 10'

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (9 × 10 ft).

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Clarke Tower

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
double9.3 × 10.3 ft96 sq ft
double9.3 × 19.5 ft181 sq ft

What's included

  • Double Room: 9'4" x 19'6"
  • Single Room: 9'4" x 10'4"

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (9.3 × 10.3 ft).

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Cutler House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
double9.6 × 9.9 ft95 sq ft
double10.2 × 16.1 ft164 sq ft

What's included

  • Double Room: 10'2" x 16'1"
  • Single Room: 9'7" x 9'11"

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (10.2 × 16.1 ft).

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Cutter House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
double10 × 10.8 ft108 sq ft
double10.8 × 15.8 ft171 sq ft

What's included

  • Double Room: 10'10" x 15'9"
  • Single Room: 10' x 10'10

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (10.8 × 15.8 ft).

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Glaser House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
single9 × 10 ft90 sq ft

What's included

  • Single Room: 9' x 10'

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (9 × 10 ft).

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Hitchcock House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
double9.6 × 9.9 ft95 sq ft
double10.2 × 16.1 ft164 sq ft

What's included

  • Double Room: 10'2" x 16'1"
  • Single Room: 9'7" x 9'11"

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (10.2 × 16.1 ft).

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Howe House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
single9 × 10 ft90 sq ft

What's included

  • Single Room: 9' x 10'

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John Sykes Fayette House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
double165 sq ft

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Lay out your furniture before you arrive.

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Kusch House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
single9 × 10 ft90 sq ft

What's included

  • Single Room: 9' x 10'

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (9 × 10 ft).

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Mary Chilton Noyes House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
double165 sq ft

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Michelson House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
single9 × 10 ft90 sq ft

What's included

  • Single Room: 9' x 10'

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (9 × 10 ft).

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Norton House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
double10 × 10.8 ft108 sq ft
double10.8 × 15.8 ft171 sq ft

What's included

  • Double Room: 10'10" x 15'9"
  • Single Room: 10' x 10'10"

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (10.8 × 15.8 ft).

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Pierce House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
double9.6 × 9.9 ft95 sq ft
double10.2 × 16.1 ft164 sq ft

What's included

  • Double Room: 10'2" x 16'1"
  • Single Room: 9'7" x 9'11"

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (10.2 × 16.1 ft).

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Raymond House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
double10 × 10.8 ft108 sq ft
double10.8 × 15.8 ft171 sq ft

What's included

  • Double Room: 10'10" x 15'9"
  • Single Room: 10' x 10'10"

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (10.8 × 15.8 ft).

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Sherman House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
double10 × 10.8 ft108 sq ft
double10.8 × 15.8 ft171 sq ft

What's included

  • Double Room: 10'10" x 15'9"
  • Single Room: 10' x 10'10"

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (10.8 × 15.8 ft).

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Smith House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
double9.8 × 11.8 ft116 sq ft
double11.7 × 15.8 ft185 sq ft

What's included

  • Double Room: 11'8" x 15'9"
  • Single Room: 9'10" x 11'10"

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (11.7 × 15.8 ft).

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Staley House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
single9 × 10 ft90 sq ft

What's included

  • Single Room: 9' x 10'

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (9 × 10 ft).

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Storrs House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
double9.6 × 9.9 ft95 sq ft
double10.2 × 16.1 ft164 sq ft

What's included

  • Double Room: 10'2" x 16'1"
  • Single Room: 9'7" x 9'11"

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (10.2 × 16.1 ft).

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Taft House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
double9.8 × 11.8 ft116 sq ft
double11.7 × 15.8 ft185 sq ft

What's included

  • Double Room: 11'8" x 15'9"
  • Single Room: 9'10" x 11'10"

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (11.7 × 15.8 ft).

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Taplin House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
double9.8 × 11.8 ft116 sq ft
double11.7 × 15.8 ft185 sq ft

What's included

  • Double Room: 11'8" x 15'9"
  • Single Room: 9'10" x 11'10"

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (11.7 × 15.8 ft).

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Tippit House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
single9 × 10 ft90 sq ft

What's included

  • Single Room: 9' x 10'

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (9 × 10 ft).

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Tyler House

Room sizes
Room typeDimensionsSize
double10 × 10.8 ft108 sq ft
double10.8 × 15.8 ft171 sq ft

What's included

  • Double Room: 10'10" x 15'9"
  • Single Room: 10' x 10'10"

Design this room before move-in

Start from this hall's most common layout (10 × 10.8 ft).

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What on-campus housing costs at Case Western

Heads up — this school breaks the usual rules

  • Full-size beds (54" x 75") in The Village at 115, Stephanie Tubbs Jones and the Hazel apartments. A Twin XL sheet set is useless in those buildings — and Case Western’s own packing list is internally inconsistent about 1609 Hazel, listing it under both the full-bed and the XL-twin bullets.
  • A 4.7 cubic foot mini-fridge is supplied to first- and second-year students, and microwaves are supplied in suites and apartments but banned everywhere else. Buying a microfridge is money burned; buying a microwave for a traditional hall gets it confiscated.
  • Curtains are banned outright — mini-blinds are provided — and so are fabric wall hangings, which kills tapestries, the most common dorm-decor purchase.
  • No air conditioning in the first-year buildings — Clarke Tower states plainly that the building has none — and you are forbidden from bringing an AC unit. Yet Village at 115 and Overlook House have in-unit air conditioning, so it varies entirely by assignment.
  • Extension cords and adhesive LED light strips are banned entirely, and the appliance ban is unusually wide: air fryers, rice cookers, electric kettles, sandwich makers and George Foreman grills are all named.

Buying the standard college checklist here will waste money — check your building first.

Bed size: Not uniform. Traditional and suite halls are XL twin, 36" x 80". But Case Western’s apartment packing list names exceptions: The Village at 115, Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Hazel use full/double beds (54" x 75"), while Triangle, the Property Management Apartments and Overlook House stay XL twin. ⚠ 1609 Hazel appears on both lists — confirm your specific unit before buying sheets.
HallStyleRate
First-Year Houses
Cutler, Storrs, Taplin, Norton, Raymond and others — the cheapest option, with a 4.7 cubic foot mini-fridge supplied in every room.
Traditional$11,540/yr ($5,770/sem) double or triple
Suite Single, 6-person unit
A private bedroom for less than a first-year double; the suite shares an apartment-size fridge and a provided microwave. Includes Clarke Tower.
Suite$11,900/yr ($5,950/sem)
Overlook House
In-unit central air conditioning, a private bathroom and a microfridge; the stove is shared by the building.
Single, private bath$13,520/yr
Property Management Apartments
1719 and 1727 E 116th, Noble, Twin Gables, 1680 and 1716 — the cheapest true apartment, and XL twin beds here rather than full.
Apartment$13,940/yr
The Village at 115
Full-size beds, a full kitchen with dishwasher, in-unit air conditioning and cable TV. Studios through nine-bedroom units.
Apartment$14,810–$16,350/yr
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Top of the range; all bedrooms are single occupancy, and the beds are full-size.
Apartment/townhouse$15,480–$16,550/yr

Case Western publishes both annual and per-semester figures side by side — do not mix them. The meal plan is separate and mandatory for all first- and second-year students, with required first-year plans running $8,390 to $8,600 a year — roughly as much as the room itself, making a realistic first-year room-and-board figure about $19,930 to $20,140. Upper-class apartment residents are exempt from the meal plan requirement. All Greek housing rates are marked “pending approval.” Rates compiled from the university’s published housing rates, August 2026. Always confirm on the official rates page.

Who has to live on campus

Required for two years. The Residence Hall Agreement states that all full-time, unmarried undergraduates “who do not live at a parent’s permanent residence within 40 miles of the University must live on-campus,” and the rates page restates the two-year rule. The exemption is living at a parent’s permanent residence within 40 miles; anything else requires a written Housing Release Request approved by Housing.

What the room already includes

Rooms have a bed that can be lofted, a desk, desk chair, dresser, closet space, wastebasket, mini-blinds and internet access. Laundry is included in the room rate — no quarters needed. Beds can be lofted on request through MyHousing before move-in, though some spaces have non-loftable beds. Apartment-style housing is materially different: The Village at 115 has a full-size refrigerator, stove, dishwasher and microwave in each kitchen, a furnished living room, in-apartment climate control for heating and air conditioning, gigabit ethernet and cable TV. Stephanie Tubbs Jones has a refrigerator, stove and microwave with all bedrooms single occupancy, and Overlook House adds an attached bath and central air with a stove shared by the building.

Fridge & microwave rules

Supplied by the university — do not buy one. First-year rooms and second-year Noyes and Fayette rooms each get a 4.7 cubic foot mini-fridge; suites share an apartment-size refrigerator and have a microwave provided; apartments have a microwave provided; and Overlook House provides a microfridge. Critically, microwaves are on the prohibited list for traditional residence hall rooms — you cannot bring one and none is provided there, so the hall kitchens are the answer. No bring-your-own cap is published because you are not expected to bring a fridge.

What you cannot bring

Halogen or incandescent lamps and bulbs; extension cords; adhesive LED light strips; hot plates, toaster ovens, George Foreman grills, air fryers, sandwich makers, rice cookers, electric teapots and water heaters, microwaves “or similar cooking appliances”; candles, incense and wax melters; humidifiers and diffusers; space heaters; air conditioners; curtains (mini-blinds are provided); fabric wall hangings; wallpaper, contact paper, borders, paneling and waterbeds; illegal drugs, fireworks and weapons. Pets: dogs, cats, ferrets and animals needing a heat lamp are banned, though apartments permit small caged animals and fish. For hanging, use 3M removable hooks or blue painter’s tape only — no nails and no other tape. Coffee makers are permitted with automatic shut-off. Instant Pots are not named but fall under “or similar cooking appliances.”

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