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Balch Hall — Cornell University
Balch Hall
Cornell University

Balch Hall

📍 62 Balch Dr, Ithaca, NY 14850
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🏛 Corridor🚿 Communal Bathroom👥 All-Female❄️ Has AC🍳 Kitchen🛗 Elevator🚻 Gender-Inclusive Bathrooms🏢 6 floors
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About Balch Hall

Historic 6-floor corridor-style residence divided into North Balch and South Balch, each with four units of roughly 20-30 rooms. Open to all-female-identified students of any year. Each unit has communal gender-designated bathrooms, with at least one gender-neutral bathroom per unit decided at the community's first meeting. North Balch was fully renovated and reopened August 2024; South Balch reopened in 2025. No air conditioning.

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Bathrooms here are communal, so you'll be carrying your things down the hall. Students here often pick up:

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