Bates Place Names
Below are the informal and formal names of signature Bates places.
Listed first are place names acceptable for use in calendar or event listings, signage, and in most written communications.
In parentheses are the formal names, to be used for invitations, official memoranda, and other documents of record.
Avoid slang names for buildings, including “the Silo” for the Mays Center and “the Cage” for Gray Athletic Building.
Academic and Campus
- Alumni House
- Alumni Walk
- Bates–Morse Mountain Conservation Area
- Bates College Museum of Art
- Burgoyne Lakeside Walk (Marjorie Burgoyne Lakeside Walk)
- Canham House
- Carnegie Science Hall
- Chapel see “the Gomes Chapel”
- Chase Hall
- Commons now acceptable in all references to building that houses Dining Services and the campus dining hall
- Coram Library
- Cutten Maintenance Center
- Dana Hall
- Dunn Guest House
- Gannett Theater
- Gomes Chapel (Peter J. Gomes Chapel)
- Hathorn Hall
- Health Services
- Hedge Hall
- Historic Quad avoid “the Quad”; bordered by Parker Hall, Hathorn Hall, Dana Chemistry Hall, Coram Library, Carnegie Science Hall, Campus Avenue and the Gomes Chapel
- Keigwin Amphitheater (Florence J. Keigwin Amphitheater)
- Ladd Library (the George and Helen Ladd Library)
- Lane Hall
- Libbey Forum
- Library Quad avoid “the Quad”; bordered by Alumni Gymnasium, Ladd Library, Chase Hall, Roger Williams Hall
- Lindholm House
- Martin Andrucki Black Box Theatre
- Mays Center (Benjamin E. Mays Center) avoid “the Silo”
- Memorial Commons refers to the multipurpose space in Chase Hall once used for dining
- Museum of Art (Bates College Museum of Art)
- Muskie Archives (Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)
- Olin Arts Center includes Olin Concert Hall
- Perry Atrium (Joan Holmes Perry ’51 Atrium)
- Pettengill Hall (Frederick B. and Ursula P. Pettengill Hall) includes Perry Atrium
- Pettigrew Hall
- Plavin Studio
- President’s House
- Quad see “Historic Quad” or “Library Quad”
- Roger Williams Hall
- Schaeffer Theatre (Miriam Lavinia Schaeffer Theatre) note “tre” ending while all other theaters are “ter”
- Shortridge (Bates College Coastal Center at Shortridge)
Athletic
- Alumni Gymnasium
- Bates Squash Center located off campus at 156 Plourde Parkway
- Campus Avenue Field avoid “AstroTurf Field”
- Garcelon Field
- Gray Athletic Building (Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building) avoid “the Cage”
- Greene Boathouse
- Lafayette Street Field (Lafayette Street Softball Diamond)
- Leahey Field (William Leahey Baseball Diamond)
- Merrill Gymnasium (Margaret Hopkins Merrill Gymnasium and Field House) includes Waldo Frimon Reis ’24 Wing, Bert Andrews Room, Plavin Studio
- Russell Street Track and Field
- Slovenski Indoor Track (Walter Slovenski Indoor Track)
- Tarbell Pool (Carolyn E. Tarbell Pool)
- Underhill Arena (Joseph A. Underhill Arena) includes Davis Fitness Center
- Wallach Tennis Center (James G. Wallach Tennis Center)
Residential
- Clason House
- Davis House
- Frye House
- Frye Street Union
- Gillespie Hall
- Hacker House
- Hayes House
- Herrick House
- Holmes House
- Howard House
- John Bertram Hall
- Leadbetter House
- Milliken House
- Mitchell House
- Moulton House
- Nash House
- Parsons House
- Pierce House
- Small House
- Stillman House
- Turner House
- Webb House
- Whittier House
- Wilson House
- Wood Street House
- Page Hall
- Parker Hall
- Rand Hall
- Residential Village includes Moody House, Rzasa House, Arthur P. Hopkins House
- Smith Hall
- Wentworth Adams Hall