Shelton Hall (Boston University)
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Shelton Hall is one of eight large buildings at Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

 that serve as dormitories. Located at 91 Bay State Road, the building has nine floors and a capacity of 418 students. Living quarters are divided into four- and five-person suites, and a few private doubles. The ninth floor consists of a study lounge that provides an impressive view of Boston
Boston
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 and the Charles River
Charles River
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 as well as Fenway Park
Fenway Park
Fenway Park is a baseball park near Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts. Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912, and is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use. It is one of two "classic"...

. The dining hall of Shelton serves students who reside in the lower Bay State Road area.

The building was constructed in 1923 as one of the first Sheraton
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 hotels. Above the entrance the name "Sheraton" can still be seen engraved in the concrete. In 1954, Boston University bought the hotel and changed its name to Shelton Hall.

Students like the building for its quiet atmosphere. It is primarily inhabited by upperclassmen. In 1953, playwright Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish...

died in suite 401 (now the RA's room--417) on the fourth floor. In his honor, the fourth floor was named a specialty housing area called the Writer's Corridor. Other specialty floors include the 5th floor for students in the College of Engineering and the 2nd floor for School of Management students. School folklore holds that the building is haunted by the playwright. Apparently, lights on this floor are dimmer and the elevators would randomly stop at the fourth floor.

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