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Bancroft Hall is the largest dormitory in the world. It has over 30 acres of floor space and three miles of passageways. The building houses every midshipman (over 4,000) at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Bancroft Hall is named after Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft, and 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 the 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 barbershop, a bank, a travel office, a textbook store, a general store ("The Naval Academy Store" or "The Mid Store"), 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 King), where all midshipmen are fed simultaneously twice daily and three times on Wednesdays (the day of the mandatory dress-up evening meal).
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