A sign that reads, "Bethel College and Seminary Women's Dormitory Addition" marks the construction site of the addition to the Bodien dormitory. Project was funded by the Housing and Home Finance Agency as Project No. Minnesota 21 CH:5.
Contributing Institution:
The History Center, Archives of Bethel University and Converge Worldwide - BGC
Men's Dormitory (renamed Ytterboe hall in 1914 in honor of Prof. H.T. Ytterboe). See http://www.stolaf.edu/president/enewsletter/archives.html (March 2004)
Interior view of Miss Aiken's dorm room in Lawrence Hall. Two beds in foreground, dresser and rocking chair stand in corner of room, pictures, signs and pennants on walls.
View of two women sitting in rocking chairs. One woman is reading and the other is sewing. Signs and photographs are hanging on the wall. The woman on the right is Francis Adams.
Black and white group portrait of 8 women, wearing overcoats and hats, standing together on the steps of Lawrence Hall. The students include: Flaherty, Makin, Conley, Johnson, Pettit, Kavennaugh and Parks.
View of eight women, wearing dresses, with one of them standing in a tree, gathered at the base of a tree, building in background. Marie Petit is standing in the tree.
Exterior view of Shoemaker Hall. Opened in 1915, Shoemaker Hall has since served as a dormitory. It was named for Waite Shoemaker, an 1881 graduate of St. Cloud State, who served as a faculty member and then St. Cloud State president from 1902 to 1916. A south addition was completed in 1960.
A.E. Evans, Macalester College Class of 1897, standing holding a guitar in his room. Contributed by Richard Uriah Jones, Macalester College Class of 1901, and Macalester Head of Chemistry Department 1903-1941, and Dean of the College, 1917-1936.
Interior of the Minneapolis Young Men's Christian Association Central Branch at 10th Street and Mary Place, showing a dormitory room with a bed, dresser, and rocking chair. Young Men from the rural areas, out of town or from foreign countries always found a welcome smile and a clean place to sleep at the YMCA.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives
St. Benedict's Mission, White Earth Indian Reservation (White Earth Band of Ojibwe). One of the boarding school dormitories in the upper floors of the newly-built St. Benedict's Mission School. Unlike the crowded conditions of the early convent school at White Earth, the new school built in 1890 allowed ample space for sleeping quarters (Saint Benedict's Monastery Archives).
Exterior view of Brainard Hall. Named after faculty member and acting president Dudley Brainard, Brainard Hall served as a men's dormitory from 1947 to 1958.
Exterior view of Brainard Hall. Named after faculty member and acting president Dudley Brainard, Brainard Hall served as a men's dormitory from 1947 to 1958.
Exterior view from street of Mitchell Hall. Mitchell Hall was completed in 1958 as a dormitory for women. The building was named for William B. Mitchell, who served as St. Cloud State's resident director from 1877 to 1901.
Interior view of a dormitory room. David Thompson's roommate was John Aleels. Their room was on the second floor of Eutrophian Hall on Grand Avenue in St. Paul.
Exterior view of a nurses' dormitory at The Swedish Hospital School of Nursing in downtown Minneapolis. All nursing students were required to live in the dorm and adhere to a strict code of conduct. Notice the cobblestone street in front of the dormitory.
Exterior view of Edwards Hall with two men posing outside, Macalester College men's boarding club, 1896. Located on campus at the end of Princeton Avenue.
Exterior view of Edwards hall, a boarding club for men at Macalester College, with residents posing in front. Edwards Hall was located at the end of Princeton Avenue Caption reads "Early days of Edward's Hall." Contributed by a Class of 1898 alum.
Exterior view of Garvey Commons. Opened in 1963, Garvey Commons serves as the campus dormitories' cafeteria. The building was named for long-time faculty member Beth Porter Garvey.