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McElwain Hall — Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University

McElwain Hall

📍 Shortlidge Road, State College, Pennsylvania, 16802
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🏛 Corridor🚿 Communal Bathroom👥 Co-Ed❄️ Has AC🍽️ Dining Hall On-Site
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About McElwain Hall

McElwain Hall is one of Penn State's traditional South Halls corridor residence halls. Traditional double rooms with communal floor bathrooms, no air conditioning. One of the older buildings in the South Halls residential cluster on the south side of the University Park campus, named for an early Penn State athletics administrator.

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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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