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Morrow House is one
of the 10 houses of "the Quad." The path from the Quad to the center of campus passes the
president's house and offers a beautiful view of Paradise Pond.
The
complex was built in stages starting in 1922, to alleviate a housing
shortage on campus. When
all the houses were completed in 1936, William Allen Neilson,
then the president of Smith, pronounced it the "Great
Quadrangle."
 
Since the Quad is a 10-min.
walk from academic buildings and a 15-min. walk from downtown
Northampton, some students prefer to use a bicycle.
Unique
to Morrow House is its "poetry room" which
became part of the house's design at the suggestion of Elizabeth
Cutter Morrow. Mrs. Morrow, for whom the house is named,
was a graduate of Smith and served as acting president of
the college in 1939. The corner contains a collection of
volumes of poetry and books about poets, and invites readers
to enjoy what was one of Mrs. Morrow's chief pleasures.
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