Ladies' Hall: St. Olaf's First Building
The First Building Living in Ladies' Hall Remembering Ladies' Hall Advocating Coeducation

Remembering Ladies' Hall Primitive days
Separate beds
 

Separate beds



Room of Frida Bu(e), Preceptress and teacher, Oct. 6, 1902

I intend to come to St. Olaf this fall .... I hope to get a room in "the Ladies' Hall." I understand that the girls have separate beds in the "Ladies' Hall" and I much prefer that.

— Prospective student to Mrs. Hegland, August 24, 1909, from Joe Shaw, History of St. Olaf College, 1874-1974 (1974), p. 659.

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