Living on Campus

At Taft, we live where we learn, and learn where we live. Our dorms are meant to be, in every sense, a home away from home. For more than three-quarters of our student body, they are just that: they are places where friendships are formed, faculty becomes family, and comfortable spaces abound. They are where students live together, learn together, and grow together. For many, it is the first time they are living away from home. Our Residential Life team, which includes a director, dorm heads, resident faculty, deans, and dormitory monitors, is here to help.

Girls live in five houses: Centennial, Congdon, McIntosh, Upper School Girls Dorm (USGD), and Vogelstein. Boys live on the upper levels of Charles Phelps Taft (CPT) and Horace Dutton Taft (HDT) Halls and in ISP, all of which are connected on the lower level by our “Main Hall.” Main Hall is our campus hub: many classrooms, administrative offices, dining halls, and arts spaces are either on or accessed by this corridor, which runs end-to-end though CPT and HDT. The sense of community that Mr. Taft so valued and sought to build is given inherent rise through our architecture, as students, faculty, and administrators cross paths on Main Hall time and again throughout each day.