1854
North College, a brick dormitory, was erected
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“North College, a dormitory of brick, three stories and a basement, measuring fifty-four feet by forty, was erected in 1854. The basement is used as a dining-room and appendages for a students' club, and tlie three stories are divided into twelve suites of rooms for students.”
1879-history-of-rock-county/12-rock-county-ch06-politics-war-record.md, PDF p. 472
Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.
Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources
On the printed page (PDF p. 472) · open the whole page “e church was wet, and there have been many wet ones since . The history of the college buildings is concisely this : Middle College, of red brick , was erected in 1847–48, at a cost of about $10,000. It was given a new roof- story, belfry, porch , etc., in 1879, at a cost of about $4,000 . It was, until 1893, the principal building for instruction in the college proper ; the literary societies have their halls and reading room there. North College , of red brick , was built in 1854 for $8,000 ; it was long the only or principal dormitory, and it was, until the completion of Chapin Hall, the place of the college boarding-club. The old chapel, now called the Art Hall, of Milwaukee brick, was built in 1858 for $6,000 ; it was a chapel up stairs, and the headquarters of the rhetorical work ; down stairs it was the crowded home of the academy until the erection of Scoville Hall, and then a temporary refuge of the department of physics, until the completion of 1 14 BELOIT COLLEGE”
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