Mirrielees is an apartment residence for upperclass students. Built in 1972, originally as part of the nearby Escondido Village graduate community, it currently houses approximately 435 residents. Each furnished apartment has a small living-dining area, a kitchen, and bathroom. Currently 2-bedroom apartments house three students, and 3-bedroom apartments house four students. Beginning fall of 2009, per the University Master Plan, Mirrielees will house approximately 290 students with one person per bedroom – two-bedroom apartments will house two people and three-bedroom apartments will house three people. Mirrielees is one of the housing options in the Gender-neutral housing program.

Mail is delivered to students’ Post Office boxes, assigned in early September.  Please note that the Post Office does not deliver student mail to the residences, only to the Post Office.  The Housing Front Desk cannot accept mail or packages for students. 

Here is a sample P.O. Box address.  Insert your unique P.O. Box number.

Jane Student
P.O. Box  12345
Stanford, CA 94309-2345

If you are having something shipped which requires a street address, please ship it to yourself, at your residence.

Private kitchen, self-prep – no meal plan required: Apartment residents have several options: Do their own cooking; purchase a Stanford Dining meal plan, join a self-op or co-op as an Eating Associate, or use Cardinal Dollars to purchase meals at R&DE’s retail eateries or residential dining halls. Go to Dining Options for complete dining information and specially-priced Apartment meals through Stanford Dining.

Configuration:
Co-ed type:
Resident Fellow:

Upperclass house
Co-ed on each floor
Jim Cadena

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Mirrielees has a variety of common areas including multiple lounges, balconies, computer clusters, and laundry rooms, as well as a large patio and BBQ area.

Edith Ronald Mirrielees (1879-1962) is the namesake for Mirrielees House. A member of the class of 1906, Edith earned her bachelor’s degree at Stanford in January 1907. As a student she was editor of the literary magazine Sequoia, an associate editor of the Stanford Quad yearbook, and co-founder of the women’s honorary society, Cap and Gown. She joined the English Department in 1909 as an instructor in writing, rose through the ranks to full professor, and retired in 1944. In addition to teaching she was a prolific writer and in 1959 published Stanford: The Story of a University. Professor Mirrielees instructed, mentored, and became friends with John Steinbeck, and he came to write the introduction to the final edition of her classic book on writing.