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The Student Apartments, ÐÔÊӽ紫ý's first on-campus housing, opened in October 1977 and housed 498 students.

The two-, four-, and six-person apartments were originally reserved for exchange students, athletes, andÌýstudents with physical disabilities. The remaining spaces were open for out-of-state and commuter students.

Construction delays caused the university to house students in Fairfax City hotel rooms and run shuttles to the Fairfax Campus. Five of the nine buildings were opened on October 15, 1977, and those residents were finally able to move in.

The Student Apartments were closed at the end of the spring 2018 semester and razed in July of that year.

You can learn more about the university’s first housing complex on , the University Libraries' Special Collections Research center blog.

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