Bancroft Hall
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Bancroft Hall, named after Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft, is located in Annapolis, Maryland, and is the largest dormitory in the world. It houses every midshipman at the United States Naval Academy (over 4000 total). It has eight wings -- arranged, as on a ship, with evens on the port side and odds on the starboard -- of five decks each (numbered 0 - 4). In addition to Midshipmen rooms, Bancroft Hall houses offices for the Commandant of Midshipmen, six battalion officers, six battalion chaplains, thirty company officers and their senior enlisted leaders, a barber shop, a bank, a travel office, a textbook store, a general store ("The Naval Academy Store" or "The Mid Store", as the Midshipmen call it), a laundromat, a cobbler shop, and the USNA branch of the United States Postal Service. It is also home to King Hall (named after Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King), where all 4000+ Midshipmen are fed simultaneously twice daily and thrice on Wednesdays (the day of mandatory dress-up evening meal).
