Campus Housing, Dining, and Facilities
The campus contains more than 70 buildings of varied architectural styles,
from 19th-century stone houses and riverfront mansions to structures designed by noted contemporary architects. Most of the College's facilities are clustered at the center of campus: Kline Commons, with its main student dining hall and meeting places for students and faculty; classrooms; libraries; the computer centers; science labs; art studios; and the gymnasium. The Bertelsmann Campus Center provides a spacious setting for social and intellectual exchange among members of the Bard community. Several residence halls are located in the central campus area, while others are within easy walking or bicycling distance. A free shuttle provides regular service between the campus and the neighboring towns of Red Hook, Rhinebeck, and Tivoli.
Residence Life
The Bard campus offers more than 40 student residences that embrace a wide range of architectural characteristics, social styles, and sizes. All have Internet access, social rooms, kitchens, and laundries, and many boast beautiful views of the Catskill Mountains to the west. Most residence halls are coed, and roughly one-third of the rooms are singles. All first-year and sophomore Bard students are guaranteed housing; transfer students are not, although they may request on-campus housing.Campus Dining
Students who live on campus, as most do, take the meal plan, which offers flexible menus (including vegetarian, vegan, and limited kosher and halal selections) and extended meal times in the campus dining commons.- Kline Commons, the main dining facility, contains a large dining room, smaller alcove dining rooms, meeting rooms, and a faculty dining area.
- Also located in Kline is the Green Onion Grocer, which serves as the campus market.
- The Down the Road Café is centrally located in the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
- The Manor House Café is steps away from the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and features two dining rooms with views of the Catskill Mountains and an outdoor dining terrace.
- The Bard meal card is also legal tender in the two cafés on campus and at the Green Onion, a campus grocery store.
Academic Buildings
Albee HallAspinwall Hall
Bard College Exhibition Center (UBS Gallery)
Bard College Field Station
Bard Hall
Blithewood Manor
Center for Civic Engagement
Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture
David Rose Science Laboratories
F. W. Olin Language Center
Fisher Studio Arts Building
Franklin W. Olin Humanities Building
Hegeman Hall and Rose Laboratories
László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building
Libraries
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Center
Music Practice Rooms
Preston Hall
Reem-Kayden Center for Science and Computation
Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
Shafer House
Woods Studio
Administrative Buildings
Alumni/ae CenterAnnandale Hotel
Brook House (Residence Life)
Buildings and Grounds
Fisher Annex
Hegeman Hall and Rose Laboratories
Henderson Computer Resources Center
Henderson Technology Laboratories
Hopson Cottage (Admission)
Jim and Mary Ottaway Gatehouse for International Study
Kappa House
Ludlow Hall (Main Administration)
McCarthy House
Shafer House
Sottery Hall
Stone Row
Warden's Hall
Community Facilities
Alumni/ae Center and Two Boots BardAnna Jones Memorial Garden
Aspinwall Hall
Bard College Exhibition Center (UBS Gallery)
Bard Hall
Bertelsmann Campus Center
Blithewood Manor
Buildings and Grounds
Carriage House
Center for Civic Engagement
Center for Curatorial Studies
Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Community Garden and Bard Farm
Finberg House
Green Initiatives
Henderson Computer Resources Center
Henderson Technology Laboratories
Kline Commons
Libraries
Manor House Café
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Center
Old Gym
Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
Robbins House
Stevenson Athletic Center