![]() ![]() The 36-story MSU Main Building at Moscow State University in Russia has over 5,000 rooms, and Michigan State University in East Lansing has a larger residence hall system of buildings for the 16,000 students it houses. Naval Academy.īancroft Hall is considered one of the largest dormitories in the world. Since the early 1900s, Bancroft Hall, designed in the richly detailed Beaux-Art style by architect Ernest Flagg, has housed the midshipmen of the U.S. Its past and current residents fondly refer to it as “Mother B” or “Mother Bancroft.” The place is so big it has its own ZIP code: 21412. ![]() The sprawling residence is currently home to more than 4,200 young men and women and is a veritable self-contained city. It’s an Annapolis building so exclusive, thousands apply every year in hopes of living there for four years. Home of the Week: Naval Academy’s ‘Mother B’ hive of dorm life by Wendy Winters from the Capital Gazette ![]() This Thursday we take a veterans-honoring look back to share: ![]() Encore Sustainable Architects takes a peek at journalism past that covered interesting projects and happenings related to their work and architecture in the Mid-Atlantic. News coverage today can be extremely sensational, and well, less than uplifting. Throwback Thursday: Encore’s Architecture News Archive ![]()
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