Clemens Hall. Photo Credit: Cheryl Cape

A student dormitory located at 216 New Britain Avenue.

Housing units in Clemens are apartment-style suites with private bathrooms and bedrooms and fully furnished kitchens.

In 1982, in an effort to name the “nameless” dorms on Trinity's campus, a committee, with student and administrative input, voted to name the dormitory Clemens Hall in honor of author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), who lived in Hartford from 1871 until 1891.

The College designated Clemens Hall an auxiliary isolation location for students infected with COVID-19 in spring 2020. During the fall 2020 semester, infected students were placed in Clemens due to full capacity at the College's primary isolation residence, Doonesbury Hall. Non-infected students living in Clemens expressed concern that there were no separate entrances and that there may be intermingling between infected and non-infected students. Non-infected students were also angered that the College did not notify them beforehand that Clemens would be taking on infected students. College officials later assured students that even though there were no separate entrances, the residential units inside were self-contained, mitigating any contact between infected students in isolation and non-infected students.

Trinity Tripod, 10/20/2020.

Trinity Tripod, 10/13/2020.

Trinity College Handbook, 1993-94 (1993), pp. 8-10.

Trinity Tripod, 09/18/1984.

Trinity Tripod, 05/11/1982.