by johnso24 | Aug 8, 2017 | Downtown Northfield
State Bank Joy Riggs The State Bank building at the west end of the Fourth Street bridge is one of Northfield’s most distinctive buildings. Harry Wild Jones, the Minneapolis architect who designed it, said at its opening in 1910 that “another building just like it...
by johnso24 | Aug 8, 2017 | Carleton College
Skinner Memorial Chapel Ben Weiss Ten years before he was elected president of the United States, Barack Obama spoke at Carleton’s Skinner Memorial Chapel on “Politics, Race, and the Common Good.” His address on February 5, 1999, was part of the college’s...
by johnso24 | Aug 8, 2017 | St. Olaf College
Shakespeare Among the Vine and Pine Jeff M. Sauve “St. Olaf Shakespeare Cast Give Play in Real Forest,” stated a newspaper headline for the 1924 spring inauguration production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Over the next seventeen years, until 1941, Norway...
by johnso24 | Aug 8, 2017 | Downtown Northfield
Scriver Building Joy Riggs Since its construction in 1868, the Scriver Building on Bridge Square has housed numerous businesses and has attracted countless visitors—including members of a nefarious gang. The two-story limestone structure was built by merchant Hiram...
by johnso24 | Aug 8, 2017 | Carleton College
Scoville Library Clilfford Clark In 1957, the year in which Scoville Memorial Library was turned into a classroom building, a student named Bruce Herrick, class of 1958, found a bust of the late eighteenth century German poet Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller in...
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