Eliot A House

One half of the Thomas H. Eliot Residential College, Thomas H. Eliot House, or Eliot A, was constructed in 2002. The modern dorm was known as “University House” until 2005, when the name was transferred to the relatively new dorm from an older high-rise that had held the name since 1964. Both the Residential College and dorm are named for Thomas H. Eliot, Wash. U.’s 12th chancellor, who held the position from 1962 to 1971, and was a distant relative of Wash. U. founder William Greenleaf Eliot. The Eliot Res College is one of the newer residential colleges—it wasn’t founded until fall 2010, when Thomas Eliot B House, or “Eliot B,” a sophomore dorm, opened and the two joined together to form the residential college. Elana Lederman, a resident from 2009-2011, designed the ResCollege’s crest. Traditions include Gator Welcome Week and Eliot Lawn Games.