Hixon Hall - Southeast view, with 1973 entry to Carr Theatre

Hixon Hall - Exterior

This picture was taken in the fall of 1982 and is of the side and front of Hixon Hall. Part of Moore Hall dormitory can be seen behind Hixon Hall. Hixon Hall was built ca. 1912 as a garage and staff lodge for the finely Barrell estate, the main house now at 855 E. Rosemary Road, to the east. The architect was Howard Van Doren Shaw (1869-1926), in an Arts & Crafts style, the distinctive windows here in the form of those by Edwin Lutyens for his Deanery, England, early 1900s. In 1940 the garage was donated to Lake Forest Academy, this then being their campus, and the addition to the right was designed then by Atwood, Chicago, as the structure was repurposed as a dining hall. The campus was transferred to Lake Forest College in 1948, and Hixon became a dining hall for college students then and, after 1962 when the central Commons was built, it served as a coffee house. In the 1950s the Atwood wing, 1940, provided faculty apartments, and Professor Emeritus Franz Schulze lived there for a time then.  In 1973 it was repurposed once more, as a campus little theatre, with a donation from alumnus film producer ("Grease") Alan Carr. "Along the west facade, which has remained intact, innumerable gabled windows and quaint doorways compete for attention, while the shorter north and south facades are embellished with, respectively, an over-scaled portico and huge bay window."(Kindree J. Knoepfle on Hixon Hall in "Lake Forest College: A Guide to the Campus," 2007, pp. 61-62).

1982 (fall)

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12.4 x 8.8 cm ( 4 7/8 x 3 1/2 in)