Dr. Donald Taylor, president of Cabrini, and the school’s board of trustees decided last week to renovate the Dixon House Residence Hall, which was shut down in September 2011 due to the extensive growth of mold.
As stated in a campus-wide email sent on Thursday, Oct. 2, by Taylor, Dixon House, commonly known to students as “House 2,” has a slated reopening for fall 2015 and renovations will “commence as soon as possible.”
In a Sept. 26 interview, Taylor spoke about the future of Dixon House and alluded to the news released earlier this week.
“We’re growing as an institution” Taylor, speaking about Dixon House, said. “We’re at capacity right now. We need the beds”
Aside from the influx of students this year, Taylor said that his plans for the future of the living learning communities will hold a stake in what is to come of Dixon House.
While it still is in discussion with student life and academic affairs, Dixon House may be occupied by freshmen in LLCs next year, rather than by upperclassman as it had been in the past.
Kim Crowther, alumna of 2014, lived in Dixon House the summer between her freshman and sophomore year, and really enjoyed her time there.
“It was a fun house and down right awesome if it weren’t for the mold,” Crowther said. “It’s worth fixing if it can be done.”
Dixon House’s quality amenities will act as an incentive for students’ participation in living learning communities.
According to Crowther, the house’s rooms are much different than the others on campus and do not follow the same traditional layouts. Some triples have their own bathrooms, rooms have larger closets and nearly all the rooms are above average size for Cabrini living.
With a tentative ribbon cutting for August 2015, Taylor believes that Dixon House will become a showpiece for the school and the future of what living at Cabrini will be.
LOQation’s coverage on the reopening of House 2
