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Architectural drawing of Tewksbury Hall, 1957.
Tewksbury was completed in 1959 as a women’s dormitory first known as “the New Dorm.” Designed by alumni architects Peter-Paul Muller ’40 and Sidney Shelov ’37, it represented the first modernist building on campus.
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Blithewood in winter, ca. 1950.
The 825-acre Blithewood estate was given as a gift to the College in 1951 by Christian Zabriskie, within weeks of the death of his mother. This unexpected gift not only provided the College with room for expansion, but also land related to its own history; the tract included the original estate of John Bard. After years of being a women’s dormitory, Blithewood now houses the Levy Economics Institute.
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A mural painted in Albee Social, ca. 1942.
Albee has since been renovated for office space, and it is unknown when and how this mural was covered.
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An aerial view of the campus, ca. 1942.
A lower floor window of Albee is circled, perhaps identifying the dorm room of the unidentified photographer. The smokestack of the central heating plant in the basement of Orient Hall is billowing smoke, and the squash courts on the side of the Memorial Gymnasium are under construction.
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Main campus, ca. 1942.
A view of Warden's Hall from the west. Three cars are parked in the foreground. At this time, cars were allowed on main campus because relatively few students owned cars. The president’s house, known as Gerry House, is in the background, tall and awkward prior to the 1960s additions that President and Mrs. Kline oversaw. Behind the house is the campus water tower (no longer existing), on which members of the class of 1941 rather brazenly advertised their graduation year.