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Chapin House — Brown University
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Chapin House

📍 116 Thayer Street, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912
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🏛 Corridor🚿 Communal Bathroom👥 Co-Ed❄️ No AC🏢 3 floors

About Chapin House

A program house on Wriston Quadrangle (built 1950–1952), Chapin House is home to Harambee House, a program focused on African American culture and community. The Wriston Quad setting — a Georgian Colonial quadrangle built around a central green — encourages community interaction. Standard Brown furnishings; towel bars on interior room doors (Wriston Quad standard). The quad is one of the most social residential areas on campus.

Chapin House has no air conditioning. Students here often pick up:

Gaiatop USB Desk Fan – 5.5" Portable (3-Speed) · $7.98 Vornado VFAN Mini Classic Vintage Desk Fan · $39.99

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