Four students, two women and two men, are standing on the steps of North Hall in this 6 5/8" x 4 1/2" black and white photograph. Another female student is standing in the doorway of the building. The female students are wearing skirts and blouses, and the male students are wearing pants and collared shirts. Much of the building is obscured behind a tree, but a porch that stretches the length of the building is visible. A white hand railing with square balusters runs along the porch and the steps. At the bottom of the steps are two brick columns with planters resting on top of them.
Union College, Ella Johnson Crandall Memorial Library
Local Accession/Call Number
SP309
Historical Notes
North Hall was one of the first three buildings built on the Union College campus in 1890-1891. It was originally home to the Scandinavian and German students who were being prepared to evangelize their own linguistic groups among the immigrants living in the Midwest. During the early years of the college, North Hall served at various times as a sanitarium, the men's residence hall, and was even sold, before permanently becoming the women's residence hall, the purpose it served at the time this photograph was taken. It was replaced by Rees Hall in the 1950s.
