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Tyler House is a converted fraternity (its original Greek letters can still be seen on the southern entrance pillar). Despite its distance from campus (an extra 5 minutes' walking time to get to where you want to go--and even the 0.8 miles to the art studio only take about 15 minutes), it is actually a nice living space. Its only real flaws are the lack of common space on the upper floors and the lack of adequate laundry facilities. However, Tyler Annex is just a short walk away.
Tyler Annex is about fifty feet closer than Tyler House to the rest of the Williams Campus.
==Tyler 1st Floor==
===The kitchen===
Fully equipped, with a double sink, oven, microwave, refrigerator, freezer, pantry, and kitchen table and chairs. Dodd neighborhood purchased a set of cooking utensils for the dorm in 2007-2008, but it's still advisable to bring your own cooking equipment, as things have a tendency to go missing.
===The living room===
Has a working fireplace (seldom used, as is the one in the Moose Room), assorted chairs, a couch, and two tables. Nice for studying or relaxing if the Moose Room is in use (if you close the door between the rooms, little noise carries).
===The Moose Room===
313 and 314 are bathrooms. They each have only one sink, which is a problem if more than one person tries to occupy the bathroom at a time.
==Tyler environs==
===Tyler driveway===
On your first trip to Tyler, you may feel as though you've completely left campus: you have to walk past [[Mission Park]], past [[Thompson Hall]], and cross Park Street to walk through two imposing stone pillars and up a long driveway that seems much longer than the roughly one-tenth of a mile that it is.
Approximately twenty lights usually illuminate the long walk, but they are occasional targets for (usually-drunken) aggression. Without the string of lights, after dark the distance between the last streetlight on Park Street and the lamp at the top of the driveway becomes a yawning black pit.
In early 2008, a Dodge Durango skidded out of control on the icy driveway and smashed into the northern entrance pillar, demolishing it and totaling the car. The pillar was rebuilt in May.
===Tyler backyard===
Used briefly in August and September, deserted for much of the year, on the first warm day of spring it will be flooded with students who've missed numerous outdoor activities (barbecuing, Wiffle beer, etc.). In 2008, it was home to several odd end-of-year activities, including a lamp burning and, on the Sunday of Reading Period, a massive crayfish barbecue.
===The meadow===
There is a stretch of land between the driveway and the first house to the north of Tyler that is more or less left alone during the year. You can often see deer there at dusk or at night, and in spring it becomes overgrown with wildflowers. Fireflies have been spotted there in May. The grassy area closer to the driveway, which is mowed regularly, makes a pleasant warm-weather spot to read or study.
