by johnso24 | Aug 7, 2017 | St. Olaf College
Oles on Parade Jeff M. Sauve Where else but in a homecoming parade do you see female students in puffy pastel crinolines perched on an Army jeep, or the physics club’s gigantic “Amazon Queen of Science” float? In the decade-plus following World War...
by johnso24 | Aug 7, 2017 | Carleton College
Old Music Hall Leslie Moore Built in 1914 in the Collegiate Gothic style, the Music Hall stands above a section of Carleton’s now off-limits tunnel system. Connecting most campus buildings constructed before the 1980s, the heated tunnels were used as paths by students...
by johnso24 | Aug 7, 2017 | St. Olaf College
Old Main Homecoming Bonfire Emily N. Sacket “The Carls are coming! The Carls are coming!” or “The Oles are Coming! The Oles are Coming!” These familiar war cries epitomized the rivalry between Carleton and St. Olaf colleges in the post-World War II era....
by johnso24 | Aug 7, 2017 | Downtown Northfield
Old City Hall and Fire House Joy Riggs The old City Hall and Fire House building was erected at 302 Division Street in 1876, the year of the attempted bank raid by the James-Younger gang. The building’s construction was part of an effort to transform the look of...
by johnso24 | Aug 7, 2017 | Carleton College
Nutting House Ben Weiss In the early 1930s, two Carleton students, looking for somewhere to live because they had not enrolled early enough to find a place in a dorm, noticed the grand mansion on the corner of Union and Third Streets. They stopped to inquire whether...
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