History

Hoover House was named for Gary E. Hoover (AB 73) who is a member of the Visiting Committee on the College and Student Activities. Mr. Hoover is a successful entrepreneur, having founded Bookstop, Inc., a predecessor of Barnes and Nobles Superstore and Hoover.s Inc, a business-information company. He has written about his experiences as an entrepreneur in his book Hoover's Vision: Original Thinking for Business Success (Texere, 2001.) Having traveled widely in pursuit of the advancement of cross-cultural understanding, Mr. Hoover has also been generously supportive of the creation of the Paris Center. Hoover House, founded in 2001, is home to 100 students each year. It occupies the four north-facing floors in the East building of Max Palevsky Residential Commons. Many students are drawn to Hoover House for its single-sex floors (men on floors 1 and 4, women on floors 2 and 3). The rooms are mainly doubles, with about eight singles per floor.

Culture

Hoover house consists of four floors situated in Max Palevsky East. We have single and double suites and we're the only House in Max Palevsky with single sex floors. Hoover house, like most houses on campus, is full of spirit and unity. We enjoy attending trips of all sorts, whether we go to a concert featuring Hoover residents or the Art Institute. We like to have fun. We're really fond of meeting in our lounge for weekly study breaks and movie nights. We love to eat and we're big fans of traveling to Chicago neighborhoods to dine at different ethnic restaurants: Chinatown, Korea town, and Devon for Indian food. One of the most important goals in Hoover house is to make our House our students' home. The Resident Heads and Assistants work closely with the House Council to create a caring community and a great place to live!