The International House

Illinois · United States · School

A mansion turned into student housing. The old lift was taken out of service and the shaft sealed up.

The International House on the Illinois Wesleyan campus at Bloomington is an enormous house, built as a private residence and converted long ago into student accommodation.

There was an old lift in the house. It was taken out of service and the shaft was sealed.

That is where the accounts concentrate, and it is a pattern worth noting because it recurs across this archive: the sealed room, the bricked stair, the shaft that was closed up. A space inside a building that nobody can enter attracts stories the way nothing else does, and students in a house like this will know exactly where it is within a week of moving in.

A private mansion converted to dormitories keeps the shape of a family home while filling it with a rotating population of eighteen year olds, which may be the whole explanation and is at least part of it.

The house is student housing and is not open to visitors.

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Where is The International House located?

The International House is in Illinois, United States.