Friendly Hall, the university's first dormitory, was built in 1893 and gave both men and women an option to the sometimes dreary boarding houses a mile or more away from campus. Named for Sam Friendly, a university founder, Friendly Hall -- one of the first coed dormitories in the country -- was divided in half. The north entrance was for women, the south for men. Naturally, the upstairs living quarters were separated by a wall and the downstairs sitting rooms were forbidden to members of the opposite sex except on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings. Even so, the limited coed living experiment lasted only one year, and Friendly became all-male until 1929 when administrative offices and classrooms moved in and the men moved to Straub Hall. Today Friendly Hall is home to the administrative offices for the College of Arts and Sciences and Departments of Romance, East Asian, Germanic, and Russian Languages.