Pictured here is Vladimir House, the first Innis College student residence. The residence was located at 651 Spadina Avenue, where it has since been replaced by the U of T Graduate House. In honour of this original student hub, the fourth floor of the current Innis College Residence building, which was built at 111 St. George Street in 1994, is named Vladimir House. Former students of Vlad House had a reunion at Innis in August 2017.

Built in 1969, the original Vlad building housed 43 students, including a House Manager. Described in a 1985 edition of the Innis Herald, Vlad featured hundreds of parties including the “world-renowned Toga party,” where students were “barely coherent by 9:30.” The Herald also featured a recurring Vlad column, where columnists detail days in the lives of “Vladniks,” including the boisterous parties of the residence, protests that residents joined and organized, as well as other student initiatives.