The Department of Music's mini-campus is one of the most distinctive patches of Hilltop Campus. Nestled on the south side of Forsyth Boulevard (the music buildings are Washington University's only academic buildings situated there) the area has always had a distinctly residential air to it. While certainly lending a comfortable homey feeling to that quarter of campus, the domesticity of the area carries over to its restrooms, which generally resemble residential ones in the worst ways: they are cramped, dark, and decidedly inadequate as public facilities. The 1996 construction of the Music Classroom Building brought a breath of fresh air to the music department's restroom scene with facilities that are decidedly acceptable entries in a region that sorely needed them.

That is not to say, however, that the Music Classroom Building's bathrooms are objectively stellar; to the contrary, they stand out as exceptionally good only in one of the sorriest areas of campus. The bathrooms are not large - offering only two toilets in the women's room, a toilet and a urinal in the men's room, and two sinks in each - but their size is adequate in an area that is not particularly heavily-trafficked. The facilities that the bathrooms do have are above-average: there is ample counter space; a convenient, large mirror; sinks that offer a steady, powerful stream of water and are not of the irritating variety that automatically turn off; and toilet stalls that are roomy and relatively comfortable.

The bathrooms' ambiance is fairly undistinguished: while roomy and well-lit (seemingly tall orders for a music department bathroom), the restrooms' color is a drab and unfriendly shade of beige. Furthermore, while generally kept tidy, the bathrooms seem to often have lingering unpleasant odors.

While the Music Classroom Building's lone set of bathrooms is an only slightly above average pair for Washington University bathrooms in general, they are certainly standouts among those in the music department buildings and a welcome addition to the area.