Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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lW 0' v 4 17.1 '.'1'4'4':'f'l-'o'4'-'n Q 'JZ' 74'-'11 '-'-'- '. East Building 'fr i AST BUILDING was built in the time when college gl rg-415731 2 . . . . j donations were made not in money but ln lime, labor and sg lumber. The stakes for this the first building of our college were driven in the year eighteen hundred and E fifty. At first it had two recitation rooms, the remainder serving as a men's dormitory until school was discontinued upon the outbreak of the war in the year eighteen sixty-one, then the campus was turned into a camp for the VVisconsin Cavalry. During the following years Middle College and VVest were built and East Building became old fashioned. ln eighteen eighty-two it was renovated. changing the second fioor from Il library into a music department, making a chapel out of the first floor and adding the East VVing for a college office. 6

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,2.1,'j4:'1Wf ,Haro ahj 1 I : ng,.a. ,ZFX Z WWI. 2 '.'. '.3'.','.'.'.'.'l.'1','. '42 'J '. 21 '1 '. '. 2 '. '88, Smith I-lall hliddle College, which is nun' culled Smith Hull, was huilt in the year eighteen sixty. At first it was used :is ll dormitory for men :ind women. Wlhen the schuol reopened after the wan' it was used :ls Il women's dormitory :md continued us such until the year nineteen hundred :md une. During this time the basement was furnished :is ll dining hull. ln the year nineteen hundred :md une the hull was entirely changed und refurnished as ll men's dormitory, :md culled Smith Hall in memory uf the late Elisha D. Smith of llenushzi. 7