Felland family and women students
on platform, May 28, 1888

Women students playing croquet,
May 28, 1888

Ladies’ Hall parlor and piano, c.1908-09. Photograph by Harald Farseth ’09.

Lost for decades, the original key was eventually returned by an early resident who used it for an after-hours date!

Isolation in the woods

Ladies' Hall was considered isolated because of its distance from the Main. Winter snowdrifts could leave residents homebound and unable to attend classes until the boys shoveled off the lengthy boardwalk to the Main. Studying was facilitated by the placing of "a branch reading room" of the library in Ladies' Hall. Kerosene lights were to be extinguished at 10:00 p.m. after devotions. On weekends, though, some residents contrived to remain out after the curfew in the company of their friends. The resident preceptress of women enforced the rules. Mrs. Hegland was preceptress in 1909-11.