by johnso24 | Aug 9, 2017 | St. Olaf College
The St. Olaf Elm Emily Hoar Until its removal in 1921, the St. Olaf Elm stood for decades at the jog where West Third Street and Forest Avenue meet. Although long-gone, in its heyday, the elm was considered one of Northfield’s most beloved trees, according to...
by johnso24 | Aug 9, 2017 | Downtown Northfield
The Northfield Library Joy Riggs The history of a library in Northfield goes back to the winter of 1856, a year after the city’s founding, when a group of pioneer women organized a modest reading room in the schoolhouse at Third and Union Streets. The reading room...
by johnso24 | Aug 9, 2017 | St. Olaf College
The Mighty Caesars Jeff M. Sauve Salad Days of The Mighty Caesars In the mid-1930s, ten St. Olaf fellows boarded off campus at 914 West Second Street. They called themselves “The Mighty Caesars.” This name was derived from a “liberated” brash red and white-lettered...
by johnso24 | Aug 9, 2017 | Downtown Northfield
The Lyceum Hayes Scriven Education was an important part of the vision John Wesley North had for the city he founded in 1855. In fact, the Lyceum—the oldest building in town—originally served as a reading room, circulation library, and debating society. It was devoted...
by johnso24 | Aug 9, 2017 | Carleton College
The Japanese Garden Clifford Clark Carleton’s Japanese garden was named by The Journal of Japanese Gardening in 2000 as one of the ten best Japanese gardens outside Japan. Conceived by Bardwell Smith, Dean of the College and Nason Professor of Religion and Asian...
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