Welcome to Currier!

“This is what you want. This is what you want!!!” are the iconic lines from Currier’s 2023 Housing Day video, and what Jake B. Dixon ’28 and Mark G. McDonald ’28, Currier’s HoCo Co-Chairs, will be cheering during Housing Day 2026.

Get Ready for the Qualk!

If you’re a lover of the outdoors, Currier is the house for you. Also known as “the Tree House,” you’ll find serenity within this greenery-filled space. Currier is represented by its mascot, Woody, a tree from Radcliffe Yard meant to honor the women who contributed to Radcliffe and Harvard (shoutout to National Women’s History month!). The Quad lawn also has no shortage of greenery and is the perfect location for performative sunset pictures (for the Sidechat karma).

Founded in 1970, Currier is the only house at Harvard named solely for a woman, Audrey Bruce Currier. If you’re lucky enough to be placed in Currier House, you’ll have the pleasure of attending the annual “ABC” dinner, which celebrates the historic women of Currier House! And yes, the food is delish.

Housing in Currier is separated into four towers — Bingham, Daniels, Gilbert, and Tuchman (all women yet again!) — with overflow housing in Cronkhite. Whether your dream is a spacious single or an en-suite bathroom, there’s a room for you in Currier. Some of the best rooms have balconies and are located in the solariums. Life-saving perk: Currier is also one connected building, so you’ll never have to brave the freezing cold to access those delicious food drops (don’t worry, we’ll get back to this)!

While room layouts vary, a Bingham suite is the dorm setup that freshmen in Canaday dream of as they sleep in their cramped doubles (or triples if you include the rats). Iykyk (#canadaytrauma?). Spacious beyond belief, you can fit a couch, desk, bed, and more in a room of your very own. Some of them even have their own fridge and kitchen attached! Not to mention that the bathroom may come equipped with a bathtub — the perfect way to decompress. Finally, Harvard is putting its (pretty big) bank account to good use.

But Currier has more to offer than just singles galore. Perhaps you’ve heard whispers of the Ten-Man, Currier’s infamous party suite home to ten people? Actual social life at Harvard? What a shocker! McDonald told me, “You come into Currier with your blocking group. It could be one person, yourself, it could be eight people, and then eventually you find a friend group, and you can get the nine other people you want for the Ten-Man group. And that’s just a product of how you interact with members of the community.”

Home Sweet Currier

Homey vibes are Currier’s bread and butter. Warm lights decorate all the community spaces in Currier House, their gentle twinkles making any Pinterester proud. On the way to the dining hall, all four towers of Currier intersect, creating a space where you’ll always run into your best friends… and maybe your dhall crush (we listen & don’t judge <3)!

If you aren’t already sold, the Tree House also features the largest kitchen in Currier! The Mouse Hole is nicely tucked away as a workspace, and there is nothing more iconic than the Fishbowl – the room you walk by each time to reach the dhall. This is where Currier’s annual Heaven and Hell party is held, a timeless Currier tradition with lines streaking out the door.

If the daily Qualk isn’t enough to relax you, you can also pop into the ambient meditation room, which features a beautiful tree tapestry (you can’t say they’re not committed to the aesthetic!).

Currier embodies the magical healing effects of the Quad. You feel your blood pressure drop the second you turn on Linnaean Street. Home, that’s what it is. Living in Currier allows you to slow down, take a breath, and decompress for a moment — something that can be hard to come by at Harvard.

Other traditions at Currier include the annual ski trip, intramurals (ranked second as of now, but Currierites eye the coveted top spot), and, of course, steins. Steins are events thrown by the house to celebrate anything and everything, including affinity events, like one for Latinx History Month featuring a mariachi band. They also have charcuterie boards, movie nights, and much more.

Free Food Lovers Unite!

Food is an integral part of Currier’s community. Numerous people rave about their food, and the dhall is open until 8 p.m.! Yup. Those 30 minutes make all the difference. Currier’s dhall is adorned with a lovely garden, filled with more plants than you could ever dream of, and a calming fountain. They have açaí sometimes (yum!!!). And for all you Coke lovers — they have Coke Zero, Diet Coke, regular Coke, and Cherry Coke. A soda fountain of dreams.

If you aren’t satiated by the dhall’s offerings (#IMPOSSIBLE like the burger), food drops happen every week, with HoCo Co-Chairs ordering an enormous amount of fast food. First-come, first-served, email blasts bring all undergrads down to chat about their days, catch up on missed meals, and share in the Tree-love. Other houses have tried to copy this beloved Currier tradition…but nothing beats the OG, ofc.

Currier also has the most student-accessible kitchens of any house, so if you’re a big baker, you can share the love. Brownie Friday is a tradition started by a current Currierite, McDonald and Dixon said, and people in Tuchman have started baking banana bread each week. Sweet treats galore in Currier!

Fear the Currier House Icons

While Woody, a human-sized tree character, may be the official House mascot, he faces competition from Bill Oliverio, the Securitas icon and one of the shining beacons of Currier House. McDonald and Dixon lit up as they talk about how Bill traveled all the way to New Haven — not for the Harvard-Yale game — but to watch Currier House intramurals. He even went to Arizona to support Currier athletes on the Harvard women’s softball team. “Bill is the GOAT,” McDonald gushed.

Currier HoCo threw a birthday celebration for Bill, featuring a cake with his face on it and Chinese food from Panda Express (birthday essentials, of course). As I conduct this interview, a card is passed during dinner with a drawing of Bill as Woody, Currier’s tree mascot, filled with signatures from loving Currierites. It features a sweet message that “we heard that 61 is the new 21,” with “Currier <3 Bill” adorned at the back of the card.

While walking around with Dixon, we ran into Bill unexpectedly, my first time meeting him. Wishing him a belated birthday, he jokes, “How do you know that? You guys know everything!” He radiates joy, and his deep laughter fills the room. Bill is the perfect representation of what makes Currier special — the people. Everyone loves Bill here.

And don’t forget Chuby Uche ’24, the Quadfather of Currier House and a proud graduate turned house staff member who’s always sharing the Currier love. The unofficial DJ of Currier House, he makes an appearance at Heaven and Hell and Quad Formals. Uche works diligently to ensure everyone is thriving, and really make Currier House feel like Currier Home.

Uche is also always featured in the Housing Day videos, a cornerstone of the House. Currier’s videos are among the most iconic of all, leading to the relatively recent Quad Renaissance. Each year follows a compelling storyline — from Currier vs. the World to Currier vs. the Universe to TREEPEAT. And per their 2025 video: “Currier never lose that TREEPEAT!!!”

Tree Love All Around

In the dhall, sitting with McDonald and Dixon, their friends come to chat about what makes Currier special. McDonald rave that Currier brings together so many different people, from future investment bankers to track athletes to Catan enthusiasts. Five blocking groups sit at another table during dinner as we chatted, all brought together by Currier.

The thing McDonald loves about Currier is that “[It] is one of the places where I think more people come [here] for things than leave Currier to do other things.” You’ll find people a few times a week sprawled in a cozy area of the dhall, playing the card game Avalon for hours on end. Even people from Dunster come all the way to the Quad to play until 2 AM — if that’s not dedication, what is?

Everything about Currier exemplifies a community that will give its all to make this place home. Home sweet home, and soon to be yours — tucked away on 64 Linnaean Street.

Tree-ly Pressing Questions

What is the biggest misconception about Currier House?

JBD: People are always shocked when they come here, because they’re like, oh, wow. This is nice because I think it’s slept on.

MGM: It would definitely be the best House, hands down, if it were closer to everything else.

What do you think freshmen who get Currier House should look forward to?

MGM: Oh, literally everything.

How would you describe Currier in three words?

JBD: A blessing.

MGM: Isn’t that two words?.

JBD: Blessing. Oh, one word.

MGM: I thought you meant “a blessing.”

JBD: Is it not a blessing?

MGM: I was just going to say — trees on top.

Fear the next three years (tree years?) in Currier, the most iconic house on campus. Qualks, Bill from Securitas, impeccable DJing, and more food than you could imagine await you. The best is yet to come — and the glory will continue to be treepeated.

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