Also integral to the Adams experience is the house's beautiful architecture and decor, students said.

Some of the house's features are the unique Gold Room adjacent to the dining hall, large sculptures, a pipe organ and a swimming pool (used primarily for parties). Also, a large golden gong and a pair of greenish Foo dogs adorn the dining hall. The house also boasts two hand-letter printing presses.

Adams residents also plaice the quality and size of their rooms students live in one of three buildings. Westmorely Court, which also holds the dining room and junior common room. Randolph Court, and Claverly Hall.

"There are enough single rooms for every senior to have one," said Housing Tutor Michael K. Dunn Most of these singles are in West morely Court, he said.

Westmorely Court and Randolph Court are connected by tunnels, but Claverly Hall is completely separate from the rest of Adams House.

Dunn said, however, that students in Claverly, who are mostly sophomores, are compensated with nice rooms and non-walk through doubles. Adamsians share Claverly Hall with residents of Lowell House.

As William J. Hulkower '94 noted, the many tunnels and enclaves of Adams House's three buildings all contribute to the unusual mystique of the house.

"I like Adams because it's dark and has lots of little passageways that go to places I don't know about and has lots of people doing things I don't know about. Maybe if I knew what they were doing, I wouldn't like it so much," he said