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Faculty residence, frame, Middle Campus, destroyed by fire as practice for fire dept., 1960
A nineteenth century two story frame faculty house, eight rooms, was used as fire dept. practice in May 1960 in order to clear the way for construction of the Johnson Science Building complex, completed in 1962.
This file consists of about three…
Dickinson Seminary for Young Ladies building, 1859, Mitchell Hall, Lake Forest College (1881-1899) and subsequent, in two mid 20th C. news clippings
Two clippings show one 1859 structure built as the Dickinson Seminary for Young Ladies (1859-1867), then renovated as Mitchell Hall (1881-1899), then moved to the southwest corner of Sheridan and Rosemary Rd. for the South School (public), and by ca.…
"Merrie Meade, Early Lake Forest Residence" (Calvin Durands)
These two clippings from the mid 20th C. were stapled together among the files of the Public Information office, transferred to the library in the early 1970s and forming a core of College Archives then. The first shorter one just lists homes at…
