Engelhart Hall

I hope this review helps you avoid the perils of Engelhart Hall! Do not live here! Run!
Engelhart Hall is a Graduate Student Housing building at Northwestern University. The cost for an apartment in this building is much too high for the size and condition of the rooms. What is pictured online is NOT what you get — beware.
The bedrooms are very small and cramped. The flooring (wall to wall industrial carpeting interspersed with linoleum tile) is disgusting. The bathrooms are tiny. There is no lighting in the apartments, because the windows are very small and dingy. The furniture that is provided with the rooms is old, ugly, and mismatched. You do not get a full kitchen, and the appliances do not work well (the electric stoves, specifically, are useless). Basically, these are unacceptable living conditions for graduate students.
Beyond these awful conditions, the management is also poor. They do not respond reasonably to requests. (As an aside, you must submit requests to an automated, online system, presumably because they don’t want to deal with tenants as people/​humans.) Two personal examples from my experience with management:
1) I asked that the furniture be removed from my room, so that I could furnish the apartment myself, which would at least somewhat improve the depressing ambiance. This should be a reasonable request, because you can actually choose to rent a furnished or unfurnished apartment before signing your lease (for the same price). Also, I have seen storage used by management in the basement of the building — they have plenty of space. My request was refused. This is even more ridiculous, because a) the furniture in the rooms is completely different from what is pictured online and b) I have three desk chairs. Yes, THREE. For a «one-​bedroom studio». Ridiculous.
2) Let’s discuss this «one-​bedroom studio». It is not a one bedroom. It is an apartment that has two bedrooms (i.e. a «twin studio»), and they simply removed the door from the second bedroom and re-​labeled it. Again, unacceptable for the price.
I’ll end with the positives: the front desk staff are kind (although they have no power to assist you with anything) and the building is a 10 minute walk to campus and at the Foster EL stop.