List of Brigham Young University residence halls
This is a list of residential buildings at Brigham Young University which includes residential halls, dining facilities, housing area offices, laundry facilities, and other buildings directly connected with the residence halls. Residential buildings at Brigham Young University include three single-student residence hall centers, a foreign language student residence facility, and married-student housing at Wymount Terrace.
Foreign Language Student Residence
Brigham Young University's Foreign Language Student Residence program was established in 1978 as a three-house off-campus residence center dedicated to the study of Russian and Italian. Due to the success of these houses, the program expanded from three houses to one specially-designed complex in 1991. Each apartment houses 6 students: 5 students who are studying the same language and a native speaker. Each student agrees to only speak the apartment's assigned language during the school year while in the apartment.Today the FLSR consists of five buildings- four outer buildings with three floors each. These contain all of the male and female apartments for the program. The central building has rooms used for student activities, dinners, and Sunday church meetings. The on-campus complex consists of 25 individual apartments for men and women learning eleven different languages : Hebrew, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, and Spanish.
[|Helaman Halls]
Helaman Halls, named after one of the Book of Mormon heroes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was first opened for use in the Fall of 1958. The initial on-campus complex consisted of five residence halls, a central dining building, and an administration building. Construction costs were $5,300,000, and when completed the complex initially housed 1170 male students. The residence buildings were named after prominent LDS individuals and/or families, including the Hinckley Family, Stephen L. Chipman, David John, Thomas N. Taylor, and Walter Stover.The dining building was christened the George Q. Cannon Building and at the time could accommodate 1,800 people. In addition, both a pool and a "recreation field," which includes eight tennis courts four softball fields, were completed for the use of residents. Two more residence buildings were already under construction when the completion of the original Helaman Halls Complex was announced on September 18, 1958. The two new buildings were opened for use in September 1959, and housed 234 women each, bringing the total occupancy number of the complex to 1638. In 1959, the semester rent for Helaman halls was approximately $23 per term. Another building was added in 1970, and a new hall was built in 2010.
From 1991 to 2003, buildings at Helaman Halls underwent a 12-year renovations project so that each room would have a sink and vanity.
Today, Helaman Halls has a total of nine residence buildings.
Notable individuals who lived at Helaman Halls include Mike Leach, Vai Sikahema, and Alema Harrington.
| Building | Abbr. | Image | Yr. Occ. | Notes |
| Cannon Center | CANC Center | 1958 ; 2008 | Named after George Q. Cannon, the Cannon Center acts as a central building for Helaman Halls residents, providing areas for activities, food services, meeting rooms, and maintenance services. Besides this, The Commons at the Cannon Center provides meal services for the residents of Helaman halls, and off-campus students; it serves as the main cafeteria for BYU since the 2008 closing of the Morris Center. Construction on the first Cannon Center began in 1957. The Cannon Center offers a variety of international foods, grilled options, and traditional meals. The Commons operates under a zero-food waste policy: food scraps are used to make fertilizers and used oil is converted to biodiesel. | |
| Helaman Halls Hinckley Hall | HLB | 1958 | Named after Ira N. Hinckley, the grandfather of the late President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Gordon B. Hinckley. | |
| Helaman Halls Chipman Hall | HLC | 1958 | Named for Stephen L. Chipman, Mormon religious leader in north Utah County and member of the BYU Board of Trustees for over 40 years. | |
| Helaman Halls John Hall | HLD | 1958 | Named after David John, father-in-law of Benjamin Cluff and vice-president of the Brigham Young Academy and Brigham Young University Board of Trustees. | |
| Helaman Halls Taylor Hall | HLE | 1958 | Named after Thomas N. Taylor, vice president of the Board of Trustees at the university. He oversaw fundraising efforts to finish paying for the Maeser Building. | |
| Helaman Halls Stover Hall | HLF | 1958 | Named after Walter F. Stover who donated all the mattresses and box springs for Helaman Halls. Stover was a native of Germany and served as president of the East German mission immediately after World War II. He also served on the General Church Welfare Committee of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. | |
| Helaman Halls Budge Hall | HLG | 1959 | Named for William Budge, who was the missionary that helped convert Karl G. Maeser. | |
| Helaman Halls Merrill Hall | HLH | 1959 | Named after LDS apostle Marriner W. Merrill. | |
| Helaman Halls May Hall | HLI | 1970 | Named after Jean Fossum May, the head resident of Stover Hall for the last 10 years of her life. May had served a mission for the LDS Church when she was a little more than 20 years old. She greatly encouraged residents in her hall to serve missions and faithfully corresponded with them while they were on missions. | |
| Helaman Halls "Building 9" | HLJ | 2010 | This facility lacks a basement kitchenette that the other residencies have. |
Heritage Halls
Heritage Halls were originally built in 1953. They were the oldest dorms on campus until they were torn down and replaced by the new Heritage Halls buildings. In order to make room for the new Heritage Halls buildings, the Deseret Towers "DT" apartment complex was also torn down from 2006 to 2008, and construction on the new buildings at the Heritage complex began in 2011.Today, Heritage Halls is a complex of dorms that consists of 14 buildings, located on the East side of campus. In the summer of 2017, work was completed on a new central building and one additional dorm building, bringing the total capacity to about 2,750 students. Two additional dorm buildings are currently under construction.
The living arrangements in Heritage Halls are similar to those of an apartment. Students share a kitchen and a common area. Each of the L-shaped buildings houses about 210 students. They are 4 stories high and feature East Coast classic design. Activity rooms on each floor have pictures with Church history themes and have floor-to-ceiling windows that offer views of the surrounding area. The individual units feature full kitchens, bedrooms with individualized lighting systems, and hallway vanities.
The buildings in the Heritage Halls complex are as follows:
| Building | Abbr. | Image | Yr. Occ. | Notes | References |
| Heritage Halls Central Building | HR01 | 2017 | The Central Building features study rooms that students can sign up to use. It also includes a ballroom and small kitchen that can host student activities and ward groups. | ||
| Heritage Halls 2 | HR02 | 2015 | |||
| Heritage Halls 3 | HR03 | 2014 | |||
| Heritage Halls 4 | HR04 | 2014 | |||
| Heritage Halls 5 | HR05 | 2015 | |||
| Heritage Halls 6 | HR06 | 2017 | |||
| Heritage Halls 7 | HR07 | 2015 | |||
| Heritage Halls 8 | HR08 | 2015 | |||
| Heritage Halls 9 | HR09 | 2011 | |||
| Heritage Halls 10 | HR10 | 2012 | |||
| Heritage Halls 11 | HR11 | 2012 | |||
| Heritage Halls 12 | HR12 | 2011 | |||
| Heritage Halls 13 | HR13 | 2020 | Currently under construction. | ||
| Heritage Halls 14 | HR14 | 2020 | Currently under construction. | ||
| Heritage Halls 15 | HR15 | 2013 | |||
| Heritage Halls 16 | HR16 | 2013 |
Wymount Terrace
Wymount Terrace is the family housing unit for married students and is located on the northeast side of campus. It consists of South Wymount and North Wymount. The buildings are arranged in quadrangles that enclose lawn and playground areas. It is informally referred to as “the rabbit pen” by some students. This is possibly in reference to how fast families grow here. Wymount also has playground areas for children. Construction on the complex began in August 1961 by Tolboe and Harlin Construction Company. Each building has 462 apartments that range from one to three bedrooms. The complex sits on 27 acres.| Building | Abbr. | Yr. Occ. | Notes |
| Wymount Terrace Administration Building | WOAB | 1962 | |
| Wymount Terrace Laundry Buildings 1-5 | W0L1, W0L2, W0L3, W0L4, W0L5 | 1962 ; 1979 ; 1985 | Each laundromat has standard and double-load washers and dryers along with two soak sinks. Machines can only be operated with a BYU ID card. |
| Wymount Terrace Multi-Purpose Center | W0MP | 1980 | This is where many of the wards consisting of Wymont residents hold church meetings. |
| Wymount Terrace Kimball, | W01A | 1962 | Named for Sarah M. Kimball. |
| Wymount Terrace Reynolds, | W01B | 1962 | Alice Louise Reynolds was a professor of English at BYU during the early 20th century. |
| Wymount Terrace Smith | W01C | 1962 | Julina Lambson Smith was a wife of Joseph F. Smith and the mother of Joseph Fielding Smith. |
| Wymount Terrace Bennion | W02A | 1962 | Named for Samuel O. Bennion. |
| Wymount Terrace Ivins | W02B | 1962 | Named for Antoine R. Ivins. |
| Wymount Terrace Kimball | W02C | 1962 | Named for J. Golden Kimball. |
| Wymount Terrace Roberts | W02D | 1962 | Named for B. H. Roberts. |
| Wymount Terrace Williams | W03A | 1963 | Helen Spencer Williams, often called Helen S. Williams, was the first counselor in the YWMIA General Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1937-1944. She was also a writer and columnists, writing for the Deseret News, the Improvement Era and the Relief Society Magazine. |
| Wymount Terrace Nibley | W04A | 1963 | Named for Charles W. Nibley. |
| Wymount Terrace Reynolds | W04B | 1963 | Named for Geoerge Reynolds. |
| Wymount Terrace Wirthlin | W04C | 1963 | Named for Joseph L. Wirthlin. |
| Wymount Terrace Young | W04D | 1963 | Named for Levi Edgar Young. |
| Wymount Terrace Clayton | W05A | 1963 | Named for LDS hymnwriter William Clayton. |
| Wymount Terrace Mcclellan | W05B | 1963 | Named for John J. McClellan. |
| Wymount Terrace Pratt | W05C | 1963 | Named for Orson Pratt. |
| Wymount Terrace Stephens | W05D | 1963 | Named for former Mormon Tabernacle Choir director Evan Stephens. |
| Wymount Terrace Dixon | W06A | 1963 | Named for Henry Aldous Dixon a prominent Utah educator and politician. |
| Wymount Terrace Hamblin | W06B | 1963 | Named for Mormon missionary to the Native Americans Jacob Hamblin. |
| Wymount Terrace Sutherland | W06C | 1963 | One of very few buildings at BYU named for a non-Mormon, in this case Brigham Young Academy graduate and later United States Supreme Court justice George Sutherland. |
| Wymount Terrace Swensen | W06D | 1963 | Named for John C. Swensen, a BYU professor for 54 years. |
| Wymount Terrace Critchlow, Jr. | W07A | 1962 | Named for William J. Critchlow Jr., a prominent LDS leader in Ogden and later a General Authority as an Assistant to the Twelve. |
| Wymount Terrace Longden | W07B | 1962 | Named for John Longden. |
| Wymount Terrace McKay | W07C | 1962 | Named for Thomas E. McKay, a brother of David O. McKay who also served as a general authority. |
| Wymount Terrace Smith | W07D | 1962 | Named for Nicholas G. Smith. |
| Wymount Terrace | - | 1979 | |
| Wymount Terrace | - | 1982 | |
| Wymount Terrace | - | 1985 | |
| Wymount Terrace | - | 1992 |
Wyview Park
Wyview Park is a living complex for married students at BYU. The university had purchased 150 mobile home units to provide housing for married students until Wyview Park was built. Wyview was dedicated by James E. Faust. When the complex opened in 1998, it had a waiting list of 900 applicants which grew to 1,800 within a few months.The current complex includes 30 buildings which originally housed married student families, until the end of the summer of 2006, when the southern half of the residential park was converted into housing for singles and eventually the entire complex. In 2013 after the winter semester of school concluded, the northern portion of Wyview was converted into a makeshift Missionary Training Center to help alleviate the overburdened Provo MTC just up the hill. As part of this temporary MTC complex, the LDS church also obtained a lease for the Raintree Apartments across the street to the west and both facilities are used together to house missionaries and their training activities.
Previous Residential facilities
Allen Hall
One of the earliest student dormitories at BYU, Allen Hall, named for Ray Eugene Allen and his wife Inez Knight, was built in 1938. Originally it was a men's dormitory, but during World War II, a large influx of female students caused the university to make it a women's dorm. In 1962, the building ceased to be a student dormitory altogether, and was used as temporary housing for missionaries while the Church's Language Training Mission was under construction. The success of Allen Hall led to immediate plans for another dormitory, Amanda Knight Hall, named for the wife of Jesse Knight. This served as a home for female students until it was also turned over to the Language Training Mission.BYA Boarding House
The BYA Boarding House was established in 1885 with Joseph B. Keeler as steward and Willard Done as presiding tutor. It had 24 residents in May 1886 but there is no record of it after that date.Co-op Housing
In the years immediately after World War II BYU purchased several houses in Provo that it operated as co-operative residents before it was able to build resident halls on a large scale. Most of these houses were for female students.Deseret Towers
In 1965, BYU completed construction of Deseret Towers. At the time it consisted of six halls, but another was added later. Each building was six stories and the whole complex housed over 2,000 students. Deseret Towers was dedicated in October 1970 by Ezra Taft Benson. The residential hall was referred to as "DT". In December 2006, V and W Hall were torn down because they didn't meet the electronic demands of students in the 21st century. After the winter semester the remaining buildings were used to hold conferences and did not serve as residential apartments anymore. They were demolished in 2008.The following were halls at Deseret Towers:
- Ballard Hall
- Bennion Hall
- Callis Hall
- Morris Center
- Penrose Hall
- Richards Hall
- Whitney Hall
Old Heritage Halls
There were 24 individual living buildings. The Heritage Halls buildings were built for unmarried females, although later on males were allowed to be residents. At one point a "Homemaking Apartment" was located in Heritage Halls, where students in the Department of Home Economics and Management of the Home took turns living a low-budget lifestyle for two weeks at a time. Each of the buildings had ten units capable of housing six people each. This residential hall offered apartment-style living with kitchens included in each unit. In between the buildings there was a canal that was known as "the moat." Many students chose Old Heritage Halls due to its proximity to campus. The old residence halls began to be torn down gradually in 2005.
| Building | Abbr. | Image | Yr. Occ. | Notes |
| Heritage Halls Central Building | HRCN | 1983-2014 | This building contain a computer lab and the administrative offices for the complex. | |
| Heritage Halls Bowen Hall | HR01 | 1953-2011 | Named after Emma Lucy Gates Bowen. The school demolished Bowen Hall to make way for a new steam service tunnel between the Harris Fine Arts Center and 900 East. | |
| Heritage Halls Broadbent Hall | HR02 | 1953-2015 | Mima Melissa Murdock Broadbent was one of the women chosen to have a hall named after her because she was an example of a good homemaker. Mima and her husband David A. Broadbent were the parents of 14 children, 12 of whom lived to maturity. All 12 of these graduated from college, and all 12 were married in the Temple. Mima was the Utah mother-of-the year in 1948. Broadbent Hall was one of the last four of the original Heritage Halls to be demolished, in 2015. | |
| Heritage Halls Felt Hall | HR03 | 1953-2015 | Named after Louie B. Felt. | |
| Heritage Halls Fox Hall | HR04 | 1953-2015 | Named after Ruth May Fox. | |
| Heritage Halls Horne Hall | HR05 | 1953-2014 | Named for Alice Merrill Horne who was a native of Fillmore, Utah and a prominent Utah artist. | |
| Heritage Halls Harris Hall | HR06 | 1953-2015 | Named after Estella Spilsbury Harris who was the wife of Franklin S. Harris and thus the longest-serving first lady of BYU. | |
| Heritage Halls Maeser Hall | HR07 | 1953-2014 | Named for Anna Mieth Maeser, wife of Karl G. Maeser, and thus first lady of what is now BYU from 1876–1892. | |
| Heritage Halls Penrose Hall | HR08 | 1953-2014 | Named for Romania B. Pratt Penrose, first female Utahn to get an MD and wife of Charles W. Penrose, who was a professor at BYU for a short time before becoming an LDS Apostle. | |
| Heritage Halls Rogers Hall | HR09 | 1953-2012 | Named after Aurelia Spencer Rogers, mother of the LDS Primary program for children and daughter of Orson Spencer, the first chancellor of what is today the University of Utah. | |
| Heritage Halls Richards Hall | HR10 | 1953-2012 | Named after Alice Robinson Richards, wife of Apostle George F. Richards and mother of apostle Legrand Richards, as well as 14 other children. | |
| Heritage Halls Shipp Hall | HR11 | 1953-2012 | Named after Ellis Reynolds Shipp. | |
| Heritage Halls Robinson Hall | HR12 | 1953-2012 | Named for Louise Y. Robison. | |
| Heritage Halls Snow Hall | HR13 | 1953-2012 | Named after Eliza R. Snow. | |
| Heritage Halls Smith Hall | HR14 | 1953-2012 | Named after Lucy Mack Smith. | |
| Heritage Halls Wells Hall | HR15 | 1953-2012 | Named after Emmeline B. Wells. | |
| Heritage Halls Smith Hall | HR16 | 1953-2012 | Named after Mary Fielding Smith. | |
| Heritage Halls Carroll Hall | HR17 | 1956-2014 | Named after Elsie Chamberlain Carroll who a BYU English professor and an author and poet, most of her works being published in LDS Church magazines. | |
| Heritage Halls Fugal Hall | HR18 | 1956-2013 | Named after Lavina Christensen Fugal who was American Mother of the Year in 1955. A graduate of Brigham Young Academy, Lavina taught school to help support her future husband, Jens Peter Fugal, while he was on an LDS mission in Denmark. The Fugals had eight children. She served in various LDS Auxiliary organization positions, was a member of the Farm Bureau, and served on the Utah County planning commission also for a time as head of the Pleasant Grove Board of Health. | |
| Heritage Halls Gates Hall | HR19 | 1956-2013 | Named after Susa Young Gates. | |
| Heritage Halls Kimball Hall | HR20 | 1956-2011 | Named after Vilate M. Kimball, the first wife of Heber C. Kimball, Brigham Young's best friend and also first counselor to Brigham Young in the first presidency until Heber C. Kimball died. | |
| Heritage Halls Richards Hall | HR21 | 1956-2013 | Named after Emily Sophia Tanner Richards, the wife of Franklin S. Richards and a suffragist. She was a delegate for the Relief Society at the first International Council of Women. Emily served for many years on the Relief Society General Board. She and Franklin were the parents of six children. | |
| Heritage Halls Tingey Hall | HR22 | 1956-2013 | Named after Martha H. Tingey. | |
| Heritage Halls Whitney Hall | HR23 | 1956-2013 | Named for Elizabeth Ann Smith Whitney, the wife of Newel K. Whitney, the 2nd presiding bishop of the Church. | |
| Heritage Halls Young Hall | HR24 | 1956-2014 | Named after Zina D. H. Young. |