Editing Burdett Avenue Residence Hall (section)

==Significance==


Prior to the building of BARH, women did not have the ability to live on RPI campus as all the dorms were designated for male only or married student housing. Non-local women instead were housed at Russell Sage College, according to an agreement made between Russell Sage College and RPI in September 1961 (5). While Russell Sage College is close to the RPI campus, most students would need to walk everyday to make it to class. At the time, Russell Sage College also imposed their strict living regulations on the RPI students, including curfews which prevented many from being active in evening clubs on campus. Shortly after this, there was a call for on campus living accommodations for women and in December 1964 it was announced in the Rensselaer Polytechnic newspaper that a new building was to be constructed on the east side of campus, which would become BARH (2). In student accounts, RPI proved to be lagging behind other institutions' perspectives on women and the addition of the women’s wing at BARH worked to change these attitude (6).