The “Libe”

The “Libe”

The “Libe” Ben Weiss In 1982, a truck arrived behind the Gould Library carrying the parts to a brand-new German-made tower crane. It was to be used for the construction of an addition to the 1956 Carleton library that would double its size. The problem was...
Strong House

Strong House

Strong House Madison McBride One January in the 1880s, two students knocked on the door of James Strong’s house at 118 College Street and asked, “Might they borrow a horse and sleigh from Carleton College’s president to travel to a neighboring town where they had...
Skinner Memorial Chapel

Skinner Memorial Chapel

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...
Scoville Library

Scoville Library

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...
Sayles-Hill

Sayles-Hill

Sayles-Hill Leslie Moore Built in 1910 as a gymnasium that also housed a running track and swimming pool, Sayles-Hill was transformed in 1979 into the Carleton student center. The hub of campus life, it now contains a snack bar, bookstore, game room, post office,...
Parish House

Parish House

Parish House Ben Weiss A wave of “general mourning” descended over Northfield at 7:20 p.m. on January 29, 1919. Everything in the city stopped. The movie theater closed. A basketball game between Carleton and St. Olaf was interrupted. Fred Burnett Hill, Carleton...