{"id":545,"date":"2017-08-08T09:04:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T14:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/nfldhist\/?p=545"},"modified":"2018-12-10T14:24:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T20:24:39","slug":"parish-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/nfldhist\/parish-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Parish House"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Parish House<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>

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Ben Weiss<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>

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A wave of \u201cgeneral mourning\u201d 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 alumnus and beloved professor of Biblical literature, had just succumbed to the Spanish flu.<\/p>\n

Having recently returned from France, where he had observed the aftermath of the Great War, Hill was considered by President Donald J. Cowling to have \u201cdied for his country as truly as any soldier who died on the battlefield.\u201d Hill\u2019s memorial service in Skinner Memorial Chapel attracted 1,100 people.<\/p>\n

Parish House is a living memorial to Hill\u2019s legacy. Constructed in 1912 as Hill\u2019s residence, it originally contained a private gymnasium, pool hall, tennis courts, and large library. After Hill died, his wife sold the property to the Northfield Methodists, who relocated their church to the house\u2019s east lawn in 1924. In 1965, Carleton bought the church, parish house, and rectory (built by the Methodists in the early 1950s). The church was demolished in 1966.<\/p>\n

In 1986, Carleton turned the house into a dormitory. A decade later, after extensive renovations, Parish House became Carleton\u2019s official language dormitory. Today, it continues as a language dormitory with the broader designation of \"international house.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>

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Parish House Dormitory<\/h3>

Parish House residents posing on the grand staircase in 1990 for a yearbook photo.\n\nSource\nCarleton College Digital Archives<\/p><\/div>

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Professor Fred B Hill<\/h3>

A portrait of Fred B. Hill taken when he was a Carleton professor.\n\nSource\nCarleton College Archives<\/p><\/div>

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Young Fred B. Hill<\/h3>

Fred B. Hill while he attended Carleton College.\n\nSource\nCarleton College Archives<\/p><\/div>

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Parish House, 2010<\/h3>

Today Parish House is the foreign language interest house. Students are encouraged speak their second language with their housemates when they are home.\n\nSource\nCarleton College Admissions<\/p><\/div>

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Hill Residence<\/h3>

Parish c. early twentieth century\n\nSource\nCarleton College Archives<\/p><\/div>

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Methodist Church Demolition<\/h3>

Methodist Church in the process of demolition.\n\nSource\nCarleton College Archives<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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