Olin Hall

Olin Hall

Olin Hall Clifford Clark Designed by award-winning architect Minoru Yamasaki and completed in 1961 at a cost of $1.51 million, the Olin Hall of Science was designed to serve the college’s physics and biology departments. The building had two main entrances. The...
Old Music Hall

Old Music Hall

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...
Nutting House

Nutting House

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...
Nourse Little Theater

Nourse Little Theater

Nourse Little Theater Dan Brodkin Bertolt Brecht’s play The Caucasian Chalk Circle held its world premiere in Carleton’s Nourse Little Theater in May of 1948. The play is set in Soviet Georgia near the end of the Second World War and was based on a fourteenth-century...
Medical Arts Building

Medical Arts Building

Medical Arts Building Dan Brodkin Controversy flared up in the summer of 1992 when local doctor Stanley T. Kucera had a striking mural painted on the side of the Medical Arts Building. Kucera had moved to Northfield in 1939. Nine years later, he had built the Medical...
Lyman Lakes

Lyman Lakes

Lyman Lakes Ben Weiss Ninety-one years old, Stewsie was seen on a rain-soaked spring of 1974 working on and directing a landscape project near Carleton’s main campus. A “peripatetic dynamo of a little man,” D. Blake Stewart (affectionately known as Stewsie) left an...