Wilbur Hall is a large residence complex - home to 707 students - consisting of eight houses which surround a central dining commons. One of the houses, Okada, has an Asian American cross-cultural theme. Okada is a four-class house where residents participate in thematic activities and events.

The other seven houses are all-freshmen residences. Each house has a lounge, computer cluster, and other common areas, providing gathering spaces for the closely-knit communities, and all residents eat at Wilbur dining hall. The complex has breezeways that connect adjacent houses from the second and third floors and extensive laundry equipment in its basement.

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.

Stanford's largest residential dining complex, Wilbur Dining serves residents of Arroyo, Cedro, Junipero, Okada, Otero, Rinconada, Soto, and Trancos. Its spacious servery also plays host on weekends to students from nearby Branner and Manzanita Park.

Configuration:
Co-ed type:
Resident Fellow:

All Freshmen
Co-ed by corridor
Todd Davies

Configuration:
Co-ed type:
Resident Fellows:

All Freshmen
Two single-gender floors and one co-ed floor
Marcelo Clerici-Arias and
Alejandra Harmandinger

*Important Assignment Information

1. Beginning 2009-2010, Residential Education is offering a pre-assignment system for Ethnic/Academic Theme and Focus Houses.
2. If you intend to apply for pre-assignment to a participating Theme or Focus house (ie. Okada), you must understand that if you are granted pre-assignment, you automatically accept the pre-assignment and therefore are not eligible for the 2009 Housing Draw or other housing application periods.
3. Eligibility for pre-assignment is determined according to publicized, objective criteria for each residence. See Residential Education for details or contact their office at 650-725-2800.
4. Draw Assignment—Students may apply without pre-assignment. Through the Draw you can list on your application a special program house for which you are interested. When you apply you are
1. agreeing to meet the pre-requisites,  
2. expected to fulfill house requirements, and
3. also indicating that you understand if you do not meet the pre-requisites for the house, your assignment can be cancelled when you reach the in-house draw, or you will be reassigned out of the house.
5. Draw Assignment (for students applying to the non-focus portion of a Focus House): Students in the Draw – who are not interested in the special program and apply to the non-focus portion of a Focus House – you may obtain an assignment but are not required to participate in focus programs. These students may take part in other traditional dorm activities, such as trips to the City, movie nights, IMs, and study breaks.

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Wilbur Hall is named for Ray Lyman Wilbur, Stanford alumnus, dean of the Stanford School of Medicine, third Stanford president (1916-1943), and chancellor. As with Stern Hall, Wilbur was built following World War II and moved away from the arches and intricacies that characterize the rest of Stanford campus. Each house in Wilbur is named for a Spanish word; Junipero is juniper in Spanish. And though originally designed as an all-men’s residence, the complex has now been co-ed for several decades.