Harkness House — Brown University
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Harkness House

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

About Harkness House

A program and theme house on Wriston Quadrangle (built 1950–1952), Harkness offers a community-oriented living experience organized around shared values. The Wriston Quad community is known for being one of the most social residential areas on campus, with its central green hosting events throughout the year. Standard Brown furnishings; towel bars on interior room doors.

Harkness 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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