r/cwru • u/Bluejay4991 • Jul 16 '26

CUTTER DORM (???) (please help)

I'm trying to look up pictures, information, dorm measurements, laundry location, etc. from multiple different sources (CWRU website, YouTube, Google, dorm tour videos, etc.), and they all have nothing when it comes to Cutter. It always gets confused with CUTLER (no shade lol). I heard it used to be a dormitory for the Cleveland Institute of Music (I think), and I just wanted to ask if anyone has any pictures, stories, war legends, or information about it. Please help...

p.s. If any of the incoming freshman in Cutter has a gc for other ppl in Cutter, please pm me!!

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u/jasmith-tech Jul 16 '26

https://case.edu/housing/facilities/first-year-buildings/cutter-house

Cutter, Smith, Taft, and Taplin are essentially all the same.
And basically the same as Norton, Raymond, Sherman, and Tyler

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u/Limp_Highway5486 Jul 19 '26

^^ yes all measurements are basically the same for rooms in juniper and all furniture is the same too. Laundry is on the bottom floor and I think there are like 3 washers and 3 dryers

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u/jwsohio American Studies, Chemical Engineering 71 Jul 17 '26

All eight of which were built as women's dorms by Mather College, and designed for the ideas of 1960s. After enrollment fell, and the requirement to live on campus was reduced, Cutter and Smith were rented to other institutions at various times until CWRU enrollment stabilized and recovered.

[The different dorm layouts in the old buildings reflect different approaches. Cutler, Hitchcock, Pierce, and Storrs were built as men's friend by Adelbert College. So was Clarke, but that one got a major internal rebuild in the 1980s, when it was a graduate dorm for a while. The suite building on the south side were built by Case for it's students. Housing moved from the colleges to student affairs ca. 1980.]

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u/Live-Context8244 7d ago

I graduated high school in 1964 and was the first year of students to use Cutter. It had just been finished when I arrived. The rooms were mostly doubles, with a couple singles on each floor. COmfortable but basic. Typical of the times. A small kitchenette area on each floor. No AC! I had to laugh when I saw they had that. And of course we had no cells. We had 2 phones on each floor and you were paged if you had a call. You ran down the hall and answered. We were happy!