Construction of Holland Hall with Ladies' Hall in its shadow, 1925

Steps of the "new" music building
(old Christiansen Hall), ca. 1955

A new use for Ladies' Hall

Ladies' Hall found another use in its last years as the college's first music building. For a dozen years it provided practice rooms for aspiring student musicians whose sounds and sighs earned the building its last name as "Agony Hall" or "Old Agony." It was dismantled in the summer of 1926, as the new Music Building neared completion. Indeed, steps for the Music Building constructed of boards from Ladies' Hall were used for 60 years!