East Carolina University Residence Halls
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East Carolina University
East Carolina University
East Carolina University is a public, coeducational, engaged doctoral/research university located in Greenville, North Carolina, United States. Named East Carolina University by statute and commonly known as ECU or East Carolina, the university is the largest institution of higher learning in...

 is home to 15 residence halls located in three separate neighborhoods. The neighborhoods, starting on the western side of main campus is West Campus. To the east of West Campus is Central Campus. Southeast of Central Campus is College Hill.

West Campus

West Campus is home to five residence halls: Inglis Fletcher Hall, Sarah E. Clement Hall, Radford “Ralph” Marvin Garrett Hall, Mary Hemphill Greene Hall, and Ruth Allen White Hall. West Campus is situated on the far west side of the ECU campus. Farther west is Reade St. and the downtown district of Greenville
Greenville, North Carolina
Greenville is the county seat of Pitt County and principal city of the Greenville, North Carolina metropolitan area. Greenville is the health, entertainment, and educational hub of North Carolina's Tidewater and Coastal Plain and in 2008 was listed as the Tenth Largest City in North Carolina...

 area. The border to the north is 5th Street. To the east is the Jenkins Fine Arts Center. South of the neighborhood is the Student Recreation Center and Mendenhall Student Center. The first residence hall was built in 1957; Garrett Hall. Fletcher Hall became the campus and Greenville's first high rise building in 1964. Greene Hall is an All-Female residence hall, along with Cotten hall in Central Campus.

Central Campus

Central Campus is now home to four residence halls: Sallie Southhall Cotten Hall, Senator James L. Fleming Hall, Governor Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Thomas Jordan Jarvis was the 44th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1879 to 1885. Jarvis later served as a U.S. Senator from 1894 to 1895....

 Hall, and Governor William B. Umstead
William B. Umstead
William Bradley Umstead was an American Senator and the 63rd Governor of the state of North Carolina from 1953 to 1954.-Biography:Umstead was born in the northern Durham County town of Bahama in 1895...

 Hall. Claude Wayland Wilson Dormitory was built in 1909, but was razed in 1968 to make room for the Jenkins Fine Arts Center. Dr. Ronald J. Slay Dormitory was a residence hall built in 1949. It is located beside Umstead Hall, but is now used for faculty offices. Cotten Hall, Fleming Hall, and Jarvis Hall, commonly called Cotten Fleming Jarvis, or CFJ is located to the east by the Jenkins Fine Arts Center. To the north is 5th Street and to the west is Wright Circle and Wright Auditorium. To the immediate south is the ECU Mall, an open grassy area where the ECU Cupola resides. Umstead Hall is located on 10th street at Founders Dr. Jarvis hall was the first residence hall on campus and was built in 1909. People choose Central Campus because of the close proximity to many classrooms. The other All-Female residence hall is located here, Cotten Hall.

College Hill

College Hill is now home to five residence halls : Dr. Paul Erastus Jones Hall, Governor Charles Brantley Aycock
Charles Brantley Aycock
Charles Brantley Aycock was the 50th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1901 to 1905. During his tenure as governor, he was an advocate for the improvement of the state's public school systems, and following his term in office, he traveled the country promoting educational...

 Hall, Governor William Kerr Scott Hall, Arthur Lynwood Tyler Hall, and College Hill Suites. Henry Clay Belk is a suite style living with four rooms to a bathroom. College Hill is the only neighborhood not on the main campus. But College Hill has many of the same accommodations as main campus minus classrooms. This includes Todd Dining Hall and a gym in Jones Hall. To the north of College Hill is 10th St, the Brewster Building and Fletcher Music Center. To the east and west is not campus and is home to many residential houses. South is 14th St and Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium
Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium
Bagwell Field at Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium is the on-campus football facility for the East Carolina Pirates in Greenville, North Carolina. The official capacity of the stadium is 50,000, making it the third largest college stadium in North Carolina. The record attendance for the stadium was on October...

. Jones Hall was the first residence hall on College Hill in 1960 and was the tallest building on Campus and Greenville, until Fletcher Hall was built in 1964. Scott Hall was the only All-Male residence hall on campus and was where most of the athletes who stay on campus live. In 2009, Scott is undergoing renovations and is planned to be opened to the music majors and athletes for the 2010-2011 school year. While renovations are taking place music majors and athletes are housed in Jones.
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