CC's virtual Historic Walking Tour includes historical information and images of many campus buildings. For very early images, see CC Buildings and Views and CC People and Ceremonies.
CC Special Collections staff compiled the information below in 1984. We sporadically and imperfectly revise this page. Contact tuttspec@coloradocollege.edu with questions.
Note: In the summer of 1988, several CC buildings were given new street addresses. In the list, the current address is given first.
ALPHA TAU DELTA FRATERNITY
ADDRESS: 1319 N. Nevada (1913); 9 W. Boulder; 20 E. San Rafael (1910)
Alpha Tau Delta was the predecessor fraternity to Phi Delta Theta (founded 1913). The group began on campus in 1909.
ARMSTRONG HALL
ADDRESS:14 E. Cache La Poudre (1988); 900 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 113,000 sq. ft.
YEAR BUILT: 1966
COST: $2,250,000
ARCHITECT: Caudill, Rowlett & Scott of Houston Texas; Gerald Phipps, Contractor
DEDICATED: September 2, 1966; Groundbreaking Jan. 1965
DONOR: Olin Foundation
USE: Administration, Classrooms, Theater
Armstrong Hall is named for Willis R. Armstrong of Colorado Springs, a graduate and trustee of Colorado College. Donated by the Olin Foundation the building housed, at various times, an 800 seat auditorium, a small classroom theater for rehearsals and classroom experiments, the offices of the President, deans, the registrar, central services, mail room, admissions, business offices, financial aid, the audio visual center, a computer center, a language laboratory, classrooms and seminar rooms, and the departments of classics, English, foreign languages, drama, philosophy and religion. The great hall was used for in-person class registration.
ARTHUR HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1106 N. Nevada Ave
AREA: 10,840
BUILT: 1881
ACQUIRED: Purchased August 8, 1962 from Mrs. Homa Wood, Colorado Springs & Mrs. Harold A. Smart, Boulder City, Nevada. (CC graduates, 1928)
COST: $75,000
ARCHITECT: Lyman K. Bass
HIST. USE: Phi Delta Theta fraternity house, 1925-1927
USE: Men’s Residence Hall
Built in 1881 by Lyman K. Bass, an attorney for General Palmer’s Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, this lovely home was the scene of many gatherings and dinner parties for the society of “Little London” as Colorado Springs was called. The Tudor style home had rich paneling, beamed and hand decorated ceilings, tiled fireplaces and exquisite “jeweled glass” by John LaFarge in transoms and windows. According to rumor, U.S. President Chester Alan Arthur bought the 22 room stone mansion for his son Chester Alan Arthur III. The 3 story sandstone building, once called “Edgeplain,” was briefly leased to Colorado College in 1925 for use as the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house. From 1929 to 1960, it was the residence of John and Charlotte Shaver. The college purchased the house in 1962, and it is now a residence hall for about 24 students.
BACA CAMPUS, BACA LODGE
ADDRESS: Crestone, Colorado, 175 miles southwest of Colorado Springs
AREA (Lodge): 7000 square feet
BUILT (Lodge): 1992
COST (Lodge): approx. $600,000
ARCHITECT (Lodge): Nakata/Wallace of Colorado Springs
DEDICATED (Lodge): October 17, 1992
DONORS (Lodge): Edith Kinney Gaylord, also known as Edith Gaylord Harper, and the El Pomar Foundation
USE: CC classes may use the Baca for 4-5 days.
CC leased facilities at the Baca (pronounced BOCK-uh) townhouse complex just outside Crestone, Colorado from 1987-1990, when they purchased buildings and land there. In 1992 the college completed construction on the Lodge, a Southwestern-style building accommodating up to 24 students. CC classes regularly spend 4-5 days at the Baca. Meals are prepared at the Desert Sage Restaurant.
BARNES CENTER
ADDRESS: 1040 N. Nevada Ave.
AREA: 70,000 - 5 floor
BUILT: 1988
COST: $9.1 million
ARCHITECT: Clifford Nakata and Associates, John James Wallace and Associates
DEDICATED: October 8, 1988 as New Science Center; named The Otis A. and Margaret T. Barnes Science Center, April 23, 1990, in recognition of the substantial trust fund established by Professor and Mrs. Barnes for scholarships which go to outstanding chemistry majors and for special support of the Chemistry Department.
BATES HOUSE
ADDRESS: 921 N. Nevada Ave.
NAMED FOR: Katharine Lee Bates, visiting faculty member in English, author of “America, the Beautiful”
USE: apartments for visiting faculty (2017)
BEMIS HALL
ADDRESS: 920 N. Cascade (1988); 938 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 65,662
BUILT: 1908
MATERIAL: Ignimbrite or Welded Tuff
COST: $100,000
ARCHITECT: Maurice B. Biscoe of New York & Denver
DEDICATED: October 1908
DONOR: Judson M. Bemis & General William Jackson Palmer provided most of the funds
USE: Women’s Residence Hall for 83 women, large English dining hall for 250 persons. Housing Office, Common Room, reception room, Cogswell Theater, kitchen, store rooms
Bemis Hall was built in 1908 for about $100,000. For many years it was the social center for women on campus. The building was named for Judson M. Bemis, a major donor along with General William Jackson Palmer. The residence was designed so the public rooms are on the north side, and students’ rooms in most cases have a western or southern view of the mountains. Until 2001, the building had its own dining room. About 80 women live here, mostly in single rooms. The Housing office is located in Bemis Hall.
Cogswell Theater, named for Alice Cogswell Bemis, wife of Judson Bemis, is located in Bemis basement. The theater’s grand opening was held on April 10, 1910. It was the scene of the preparation of most college plays for at least the next thirty years, until the Fine Arts Center was completed. In 1944 Woodson Tyree reactivated the theater, and a radio control room was added to help in Radio Workshop productions.
In 1956, the college built an addition onto the east side of Bemis, Taylor Hall, named for Alice Bemis Taylor, daughter of Judson Bemis and Alice Cogswell Bemis. Its first use was as a dining hall. By spring of 1995, the eastern part of the addition had become Taylor Theatre (with the British spelling) (see the Catalyst, March 10, 1995, p. 16). The Press at Colorado College moved into the western part of the addition in 2009 and is still there in 2021.
BERRY HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1117 N. Nevada Ave.
USE: Residence
BETA THETA PI (see also Lennox House)
ADDRESS: 1110 N. Tejon, north east corner of Tejon & San Rafael (formerly Newbold House); 1001 N. Nevada (see Lennox House entry); 727 N. Nevada (1919) (Lowell Residence); 119 E. Dale St. (1918); 1103 N. Weber
Founded 1914. Moved several times, including May 1935 and 1960 to make room for fraternity residences.
BIGGAR COTTAGE
ADDRESS: 112 E. San Rafael
COST: $4000 (life interest sold to Dr. Edith C. Bramhall)
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES CURRICULUM STUDY OFFICE
(Retired faculty offices, 1991?)
ADDRESS: 1115 N. Cascade
AREA: 3,000
BUILT: 1922
ACQUIRED: 1985
BOETTCHER HEALTH CENTER
ADDRESS: 1106 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 1104 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 18,326 sq. ft.
BUILT: 1964
COST: $275,000
ARCHITECT: Caudill Rowlett & Scott of Houston, Texas
DEDICATED: November 13, 1964
DONOR: Boettcher Foundation ($200,000); Kresge Foundation ($25,000)
USE: Health Care Center, Counseling Center
Information from ca. 1984: When Boettcher Health Center was built, two concepts influenced the design. It had to be economical to operate and staff, a requirement easily met by the circular design. It had to provide an environment that would encourage students to maintain their studies as patients (a requirement even more important under the block plan). Thus the center has study lounges in addition to examination rooms and private treatment rooms, a laboratory, kitchen, reception area and counseling center. The 15 bed center is air conditioned. The basement was been remodeled as a wellness area, and has facilities for workshops, exercise classes, and a human performance lab. A physician is available 20 hours per week, and nurses are on duty 24 hours per day. A variety of health related workshops and seminars are scheduled throughout the year at the center. The Counseling Center offers counseling in study skills, stress management, eating disorders, relationships, and many other types of personal problems.
For more information, see Bernard Bard and Caudill, Rowlett & Scott, A College Health Center, A Report from Educational Facilities Laboratories, [1963?].
E. BRAMHALL
ADDRESS: 112 E. San Rafael (when built B.C. Allen)
BRETON HALL
ADDRESS: 1131 N. Cascade
BUILT: 1896
ARCHITECT: Frederick Sterner of Varian and Sterner, Denver
The tan stucco English design building was the former home of B.C. Allen. It was converted into 12 apartments in 1938. The college acquired the building in approximately 1983.
BRUIN INN
(Destroyed by fire Dec. 13, 1957)
ADDRESS: North Cheyenne Canyon
BUILT: Early 1880s
ARCHITECT: Possibly built by William Strieby and/or enlarged by William Palmer.
DONOR: Owned by the college until 1885, when it became part of a city park.
USE: Dining facility, dance floor. Favorite spot on Saturday night.
In spring 1882, President E.P. Tenney of Colorado College created The Colorado College Land Company to raise money. Tenney brought his brother-in-law Walter Hatch from Illinois to administer the Colorado Springs Investment and Improvement Company (part of the Land Company). Hatch acquired 960 acres in North Cheyenne Canon and at the mouth of South Cheyenne Canon. The property was called The Colorado College Park. According to one report, the Bruin Inn was constructed by CC chemistry professor William Strieby, in 1881; possibly he helped build the Hatch cabin, where Walter and Mary (Tenney’s sister) lived, near one of the waterfalls. Controversy surrounded Tenney’s control and use of the land and roads, and in 1885 the city of Colorado Springs purchased 640 acres for a park. The Hatches retained control of the 320 acres around their cabin. It may be that General Palmer later bought the Hatch cabin and renamed it Bruin Inn. According to J.E. Lavley’s Scenes on the High Drive (1907), the Hatch cabin was part of the Bruin Inn. In 1916 a visitor center was built as a curio shop and called the “Cub”.
CAMP COLORADO, MANITOU PARK
ACQUIRED: 1905
AREA: 65,000 Acres
William Palmer donated 10,000 acres in 1905. The 65,000 acres north of Woodland Park included 13,000 acres of timberland. In 1912 the trustees sold the ranch and hotel property at Manitou Park to B. Zandruss of York, Nebraska (about 3000 acres).
HOUSES ON CASCADE
ADDRESS: 827 N. Cascade
Brown cottage, home of Dr. and Mrs. George F. Libbey a prominent local eye specialist. Torn down after 1976?
ADDRESS: 831 N. Cascade
Torn down after 1976?
ADDRESS: 1114 N. Cascade
Rear of Tenney House
AREA: 3,000
BUILT: 1900
ADDRESS: 1123 N. Cascade
AREA: 3,000
BUILT: 1920
ACQUIRED: 1987
ADDRESS: 1124 & 1/2 N. Cascade
BUILT: 1920
AREA: 3,000
ADDRESS: 1125 N. Cascade
Torn down after 1976?
ADDRESS: 1131 N. Cascade (Breton Hall)
AREA: 5,000
BUILT: 1930
ADDRESS: 1136 N. Cascade
AREA: 3000
BUILT: 1920
ADDRESS: 1140 N. Cascade (1988)
AREA: 4,000
BUILT: 1920
ADDRESS: 1150 N. Cascade (1988)
AREA: 4000
BUILT: 1920
CHILDREN’S CENTER
ADDRESS: 931 N. Nevada
AREA: 3,500
BUILT: about 1923
ACQUIRED: Purchased 1961 from Robert H. & Nettie I. Schaper.
COST: $45,000
USE: Rental; temporary Student Center / headquarters of Leisure Program during renovation of Rastall Center, 1986-87; Children’s Center starting 1987.
Originally a seven-room English manor style stucco home. When the Children’s Center opened in late August 1987, the facility could accommodate up to 20 children (ten preschoolers, five toddlers, and five infants).
CLUB HOUSE, STUDENTS
ADDRESS: 1896 rear of Hagerman Hall
COBURN LIBRARY
(razed 1964)
ADDRESS: 6 E. Cache la Poudre; N. E. Corner Cascade & Cache Le Poudre
AREA: 85 ft. long 65 ft. wide, 11,621 sq. ft.
BUILT: 1892; Addition of North stacks, 1940
COST: $50,000 $45,000 bld. $5,000 books; Addition: $20,000
ARCHITECT: Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul of Boston
DEDICATED: March 14, 1894
DONOR: Hon. N. P. Coburn, Newton Mass
USE: Library Basement Chapel, Social Center until completion of Perkins Hall in 1900. Offices of President Slocum & College Treasurer.
THE COLLEGE (1874-1880)
ADDRESS: 200 block of North Tejon Street
BUILT: summer 1874
COST: $1,550
J. Juan Reid, Colorado College: The First Century (1979), pp. 11-12: “During the summer of 1874, the board of trustees borrowed $1,550 to build a three-room frame school building in the 200 block of North Tejon Street, opposite Acacia Park and adjoining the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. On Wednesday, September 9, the college division with twelve students opened in the new schoolhouse with Jonathan Edwards and Solon T. French as instructors. The church next door was made available to the college for student assemblies and daily prayer meetings.” This was “the College” until January 1880 (see Cutler Hall).
COLLINS HALL
ADDRESS: 818 N. Tejon St.
NAMED FOR: Theodore Roosevelt “Rosie” Collins, CC athletic trainer 1935-1970, first person of color in a professional position at CC.
USE: ITS leadership (2017)
COLORADO FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN TUBERCULOSIS
ADDRESS: West of Cutler Hall adjacent to power house (1940)
USE: Tuberculosis Research Lab ( orig. 1924)
COLUMBIAN HALL
(Burned January 1, 1884)
ADDRESS: N.E. Corner N. Cascade Ave. & Columbia St.
BUILT: 1882 - 1884
COST: $7,000
DONOR: Built largely at President Tenney’s initiative and expense
USE: First Women’s Dormitory, Dining Club for men and women
The 3 story 16 room frame College Club House as it was called was built in Swiss cottage style had two parlors, two dining rooms and kitchen, six rooms on the second floor and four in the attic. In 1882 women paid $3.50 per week for room and board. During the summer of 1883 board was furnished for $4.50 and rooms for $1.00 a week. President Tenney and his family took their meals at the Club. Social events and religious services were planned by the group.
CORNERSTONE ARTS CENTER (Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center)
ADDRESS: 825 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 72,410 square feet
BUILT: 2008
COST: 33.4 million
ARCHITECT: Antoine Predock, Anderson Mason Dale PC
CONTRACTOR: Mortenson Construction
DEDICATED: October 11, 2008
DONORS: Edith Kinney Gaylord and others
USE: Classrooms, performance spaces, academic offices, I.D.E.A. Space
An interdisciplinary arts teaching and performance building with a 450-seat main theater, screening room, digital media labs, performance studios, costume shop, scene shop, “messy room,” and flexible classrooms, along with the IDEA Space (InterDisciplinary Experimental Arts), an installation area for exhibitions, speakers, films, workshops and performances.
Edith Kinney Gaylord, also known as Edith Gaylord Harper, CC alum and trustee, died in 2001. She founded the Inasmuch Foundation, which donated 10 million dollars to the project. On October 5, 2009 the U.S. Green Building Council awarded the building a gold LEED certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design).
COSSITT MEMORIAL HALL
ADDRESS: 906 N. Cascade (1988); 920 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 282,693 sq. ft. (orig. 30,400 sq.ft.)
BUILT: 1914, Ground breaking April 24, 1913, Cornerstone June 9, 1913
MATERIAL: Ignimbrite or Welded Tuff
COST: $112,000
ARCHITECT: Maurice Biscoe of Denver & New York
DEDICATED: 1914
DONOR: Mrs. A. D. Juillard (President Slocum’s Cousin) in honor of her father, Frederick H. Cossitt
HIST. USE: Men’s physical education classes, Greek theater productions, football pep rallies
LATER USE: Dance Dept., SAGA offices, Cutler Publications, Writing Center, Volunteer Action, Outdoor Recreation Center, Theater Workshop, Comparative Literature, Classics, Faculty Commons.
Cossitt Hall was built in 1914 as a men’s hall, the gift of Mrs. A. D. Juillard (a cousin of President Slocum’s) in honor of her father, Frederick H. Cossitt. It contained both an indoor and an outdoor gym, locker rooms, a kitchen, a dining hall for men, a common room and a stadium. After El Pomar Sports Complex was built Cossitt was used for a short time for women’s athletics. The south side of Cossitt Bowl was removed in 1957.
For a time, Cossitt housed the Writing Center, the CC Mountain Club, the Outdoor Recreation Center, SAGA food Service offices, and the Department of Dance. The Outdoor Recreation Center rents camping equipment to students. In 2004, the Writing Center moved to Tutt Library. In 2006, Comparative Literature and Classics moved into the space the Writing Center left, and a Faculty Commons opened in Cossit C.
CUTLER HALL
(Formerly “The College” and “Palmer Hall”)
ADDRESS: 912 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 930 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 10,960 sq. ft.
BUILT: 1877 1882, ground breaking, 1877
MATERIAL: Ignimbrite or Welded Tuff
COST: $32,000
ARCHITECT: Peabody and Stearns, Denver & Boston
DEDICATED: 1882; named to the National Register of Historic Places, 1986.
DONOR: President Tenney embarked on a campaign in the community to raise funds.
LATER USE: Administrative offices
Cutler Hall is the oldest building on campus. It was built in High Victorian Gothic revival style from rough ashlar masonry with wall faces of trachyte quarried at Douglas Station near Castle Rock. The trim is white Manitou stone. The building, without the north and south wings, was first occupied January 5, 1880, and was known simply as “the College.” This new building contained classrooms, a library, an auditorium (which also served as a chapel), a laboratory, and administrative offices for the president, treasurer and deans. Each room was heated by a pot bellied stove and kerosene lamps hung from the ceiling. In 1882 the wings were added, and five years after that running water and a water closet were added. Beginning in 1890, the building was known as Palmer Hall and housed a preparatory or “feeder” school for the College, Cutler Academy, named after Henry Cutler of Massachusetts. Cutler Academy was phased out in 1915. From 1914 to 1931 the departments of Engineering, Forestry, and Geology occupied the building. The College’s administrative offices were moved to Cutler in 1937.
The interior of the building has been remodeled several times. The offices of development and college relations occupied the building in the 1980s. From 1991 onward, Cutler housed the admissions and financial aid offices. A stone patio entrance and low stone wall were built in the summer of 2010.
DELTA ALPHI PHI
ADDRESS: 1015 N. Nevada (1931); 315 E. Yampa; 831 N. Cascade (1926)
DELTA GAMMA SORORITY
(formerly Minerva House)
ADDRESS: Moved to East Campus, ca. 2000. Formerly: 1156 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 1102 Wood Ave.
AREA: 4000 sq. ft.
BUILT: 1925
ARCHITECT: Harry M. Pierceall, Bickley Construction
COST: $45,000
USE: Non residential sorority
DELTA GAMMA SORORITY
(Razed before 1962)
ADDRESS: 42 W. Cache la Poudre
BUILT: 1925 (1934? See Tiger, Sept. 14, 1934)
COST: $5500
DERN HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1109 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 1105 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 5,472
BUILT: 1923
ACQUIRED: Purchased 1963 from John E. Kennedy
COST: $77,000
DEDICATED:
USE: Classrooms, Southwest studies, Administrative Offices, Hulbert Center
The Mediterranean style stucco building with a red tile roof was named for Joseph Jackson Dern, CC trustee 1935-1939, 1942-1946. The house was occupied by Joseph G. Dern and members of the Dern family until 1955. Joseph G. Dern was President of Colorado Savings Bank of Colorado Springs. Son Joseph J. was vice president of Dern Food Co, importers of tea, coffee roasters, and coffee makers.
DONALDSON HOUSE
(Razed ca. 2000)
ADDRESS: 1123 N. Cascade Ave
ACQUIRED: Gift of Agnes Donaldson ‘17 and professor of Sociology at Colorado College. The house was left in her will to the college. She died in 1977, but possession was subject to a life tenancy for her niece. The niece died in 1992 and the house became a part of the campus.
USE: Theme House - 1992 - Asian Theme House, 1996 - Japan Language House
EARLE FLAGPOLE
The bronze flagpole was the gift of Mrs. Augusta D. Swart Earle. She also established an endowment fund to take care of flag replacement. The architect was Mr. C. E. Thomas and the contractor was Mr. J. M. Vittetoe. The flagpole was designed by Mr. Stephen Beames of Evanston, Ill., and cast by Chicago Art Bronze Co. The pole itself, a single piece of cast bronze, towers some seven¬ty five feet into the air and is crowned with an eagle on the top. At its base are crouched four life sized bronze tigers on a tapering platform of stone.
The site selected is the center of a small triangle formed by the intersection of walks in front of Cossitt Hall and east of their intersection.
The Flagpole base embodies a number of symbols dear to the hearts of all Colorado College men and women. The Colorado state flower, the Columbine, is represented in the border at the base of the pole. The official shield and seal of the college – an open book with the motto ‘Scientia et Disciplina’ – is found adjoining each corner of the base.
The four life like Tigers speak for themselves and for us. At the apex of the pole may be seen the national emblem of the United States of America, the Eagle, who is perhaps most at home right here in the Rockies.
The flagpole was officially presented to the college, June 9, 1931. It was moved about 100 feet west during the summer of 1988.
EAST CAMPUS HOUSING COMMUNITY
ADDRESS: southeast corner of Nevada Avenue and Uintah Street
COMPLETED: Summer 2017
DEDICATION: October 6-8, 2017
USE: 8 residence halls housing 154 students, Hybl Community Center, Hershey Courtyard
NAMED FOR: Marcellus Chiles, Marian Clarke, Albert Ellingwood, Alumni Peggy Fleming, Glenna Goodacre, James Heckman, Frederick Roberts, Ken Salazar
EAST HALL
ADDRESS: Between Palmer Hall and Nevada Ave.
ACQUIRED: Moved from Peterson Field, 1947
USE: Three classrooms, 3 faculty offices.
COST: Construction cost $44,713.26 for 3 buildings
JONATHAN EDWARDS HOUSE
(Razed prior to 1973)
ADDRESS: 1019 N. Nevada
COST: $6055.00
ACQUIRED: 1935
USE: Rented to Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. Also used as Dean’s Residence.
EL POMAR SPORTS CENTER
ADDRESS: 44 W. Cache La Poudre (1988); 110 W. Cache La Poudre
AREA: 110,967
BUILT: 1970
COST: $1,200,000 $1,600,000
ARCHITECT: Lusk & Wallace, Colorado Springs, G.E. Johnson, Contractor
DEDICATED: Opened December 29, 1970
DONOR: El Pomar Foundation
USE: Sports Center
The Sports Complex, a gift of the El Pomar Foundation, consists of 2 gymnasiums, one with balcony seating for 1420, rooms for wrestling, weight lifting and workouts, handball and squash courts, and locker rooms for varsity and intramural parti¬cipants. On the lower level, an astroturfed room provides indoor practice for track, baseball, football, golf and tennis. The building also has offices for the Director of Athletics, the Physical Education department, and the coaching staff.
FACULTY CLUB
ADDRESS: 116 E. San Rafael
COST: $5000
ACQUIRED: 1936?
DONOR: Gift of Mrs. Helen Ballou, presented to the College by Mrs. Marie Louise Bigger according to the wishes of Mrs. Ballou.
Moved to make room for fraternity houses, 1960.
GAMMA PHI BETA SORORITY
ADDRESS: 1152 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 1110 Wood Ave.
AREA: 4,000
YEAR BUILT: 1942 (1965?)
USE: Non residential sorority
MATERIAL: Off-shade white stucco.
GILL HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1105 N. Cascade Ave.(1988); 16 East San Rafael
AREA: 2,500
BUILT: 1924
COST:
DEDICATED: June 3, 1984
HISTORICAL USE: Rental property
LATER USE: Summer School Office moved to this location summer of 1983. Named in honor of General William Hanson Gill, President of CC, 1948 1955.
GOOCH HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1130 Wood; 1144 N. Cascade
BUILT: probably 1899-1900 Dr. Sidney Bartlett
Built for Dr. Bartlett of pink brick with white trim and posts. Dr. Bartlett sold it to E.S. Parsons, who was Dean of Colorado College, in 1906. Parsons sold it in 1918 to Horace Gooch. Owned by the Colorado College in 1970.
GRAYSON HOUSE
ADDRESS: 911 N. Nevada Ave. (1940’s US Navy dormitory)
LUCY PHINNEY GREGG HOUSE
(Also called Bengal Annex)
(Razed ca. 1960)
ADDRESS: 1110 N. Tejon
COST: $7812.62
ACQUIRED: 1944
Lucy Phinney Gregg was a member of the sociology department and was dean of women 1919-1922.
GYMNASIUM (PRE-1914)
ADDRESS: southwest of Cutler Hall
BUILT: 1891 (razed)
The rectangular frame building was built with funds raised by students. It was in use until Cossitt Hall was completed.
HAGERMAN HALL
(razed 1957)
ADDRESS: 910 N. Cascade; North west corner Cascade & Cache la Poudre
ARCHITECT: Pease and Barber
BUILT: 1889 13,447 sq.ft.
CONTRACTOR: G.M. Young
STONE CONTR: D.A. Russell
COST: $27,000
DEDICATED: 1889
USE: Men’s dorm housing about 55 students. On the roof and in the office of the Weather Bureau were meteorological station instruments.
Named in honor of J.J. Hagerman, CC trustee 1889-1908.
HAMLIN HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1148 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 1122 Wood Ave.
AREA: 5,000 sq. ft.
BUILT: 1918
COST: $15,000
ACQUIRED: 1943
ARCHITECT: Nicholas Van Den Arend
DONOR: El Pomar Foundation, 1943.
HIST. USE: Women’s Residence
LATER USE: Women’s residence classrooms, rental property
Hamlin House was purchased in 1943 by the El Pomar Foundation for the college from Clarence C. Hamlin, editor of the Gazette Telegraph. The 14-room house was designed by Nicholas Van Den Arend in 1918 for Clarence P. Dodge, also editor of the Gazette. The architect was noted for incorporating the famous Van Briggle tiles into the buildings he designed. Several such tiles can be seen in fireplaces in the building.
HASKELL HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1196 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 1146 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 7,161
YEAR BUILT: 1927
ACQUIRED: Purchased 1961 from Edgar. L. Study
COST: $42,500
ARCHITECT:
USE: French residence hall; 13 co ed
This 2 1/2 story, 14-room house was first occupied by Mrs. Ida M. Rice (widow of Dr. David H. Rice). Henry O. Puffer occupied the house from 1938-1941. The house is red brick with a red tile roof in the Georgian style. Probably named for Thomas Nelson Haskell, founder of Colorado College, though he never lived there.
HAYES HOUSE
(Burned 1966)
ADDRESS: 823 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 7060 sq.ft.
BUILT: 1888
COST: $17,500
ACQUIRED: 1937
USE: Accommodated Division of Letters & Fine Arts.
Now Numismatic Association parking lot (1972) At one time housed Depts. of English and Modern Foreign Languages.
Built by Joel Addison Hayes, who married a daughter of Jefferson Davis, confederate president during the Civil War. In 1919 when Mr. Hayes died the three-story frame house was transferred to Grace Episcopal Church. Later it became the property of Adolph Fehringer.
HEATING PLANT
(Renovated 1935,1958 59)
ADDRESS: 908 N. Cascade
AREA: 12,085
BUILT:
COST: $500,000 (1959)
ARCHITECT: Riley Engineering Co., Denver
DEDICATED: 1961
DONOR: El Pomar Foundation, Bemis Taylor Foundation, W. S. Jackson family, $100,000 bequest from the estate of Leon Williams, a friend of the College
USE: Heating Plant
Gas-fired boilers maintain water temperature of 380 degrees F. under pressure of 400 lbs. Tunneling for pipes installed. (see Tiger May 1, 1959)
This functional building contains the refrigeration system to make ice for the ice rink next door, and boilers and generators required to distribute heat throughout the campus. The major buildings on campus are heated by hot water supplied by generators and distributed through a system of underground tunnels more than 3 miles long. The building was named for Leon E. Williams of Pueblo, benefactor for the project, and his 4 sisters. Parts of Rastall and Olin Hall, as well as Tutt Library and Packard Hall are air conditioned through a system of chilled water distr¬ibution. Air conditioning is not needed in most other buildings on campus because of the cool, dry climate Colorado Springs enjoys most of the year.
HERSHEY HOUSE
(razed about 1956)
ADDRESS: 16 College Place
AREA: 9500 sq. ft ?
ACQUIRED: 1935
COST: $2,500?
DONOR: Purchased from grandchildren of Abby L. Kernochan
USE: Residence for the Dean of the College
HONNEN ICE RINK
ADDRESS: 110 W. Cache La Poudre (1988); (joins Schlessman Pool)
AREA: 24,964, Ice surface 190 X 85 sq. ft.
BUILT: 1963
COST: $750,000 (rink, pool, patio)
ARCHITECT: Lusk & Wallace, Colorado Spings
DEDICATED: February 5, 1966
DONOR: Edward H. Honnen family of Denver
USE: Ice Hockey
Named for Edward H. Honnen family of Denver. Structure having a series of compound barrel arches of post tensioned concrete design chosen in order not to obstruct view of mountains from Rastall Center and provide he necessary clear span of the rink.
HONNEN TENNIS COURTS
HOSE COMPANY
ADDRESS: Northwest corner of Nevada & Cache La Poudre
(Slocum Hall 1973)
In 1884 after the Columbian House burned to the ground, men students organized the Colorado College Hose Company. A firehouse, complete with a large alarm bell, hose cart and its 900 feet of hose.
HOWBERT HOUSE
(H. H. Seldomridge House)
(Razed ca. 1970)
ADDRESS: 1015 N. Nevada Ave.
AREA: 4944 Sq. ft.
BUILT: 1899-1900
ACQUIRED: 1936
COST: $7000.00
USES: Home of Lambda Chi fraternity. Remodeled 1939 as men’s residence. Used by Navy 1943-44. Became a women’s residence 1944.
Named on honor of Irving P. Howbert, pioneer of the Pikes Peak Region and trustee, 1880-1922.
INFIRMARY
ADDRESS: 20 E. San Rafael (razed)
ACQUIRED: 1935
COST: $4600.00 +$3850.98 (improvements)
Home of Dr. Will H. Swan. Extensive repairs made by Women’s Education Society to equip the 2 1/2 story house as an infirmary.
JACKSON HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1029 N. Nevada Ave.
AREA: 13,388 sq. ft.
BUILT: 1894
ACQUIRED: 1914
ARCHITECT: A.J. Smith
DONOR: Judson M. Bemis, 1914
HIST. USE: Classroom & Office building, 1960”s; administration building, 1914-37; men’s residence 1937-58; co-ed residence since 1969.
LATER USE: Theme Residence Hall for 32 co ed; The Press at Colorado College
Jackson House is named for William Sharpless Jackson, husband of Helen Hunt Jackson (the author of Ramona) and trustee of the college. The 2 1/2 story house was built by a distinguished Colorado Springs architect for W.S. Montgomery, a mining broker and attorney. In 1914 the house was purchased by Judson M. Bemis, refurbished and donated to the college. Built of pale grey Castle Rock limestone, the building has been used for a student residence hall and as a classroom and office building. Today it is a theme residence hall for about 32 men and women. The Press at Colorado College was located in the basement of Jackson House from 1981 until 2009, when it moved to space adjacent to Taylor Theater. (Prior to 1981 the Press was in an upstairs room at the Fine Arts Center, space leased by the college.)
JANITOR’S HOUSE
ADDRESS: 00 block of W. Cache la Poudre (razed)
KAPPA ALPHA THETA SORORITY
ADDRESS: Moved to East Campus, ca. 2000. Formerly: 1050 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 1020 Wood Ave.
AREA: 3,885 sq. ft.
BUILT: 1935
USE: Sorority house / Non residential
Enlarged 1939, Eighteenth Century English style.
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA SORORITY
ADDRESS: Moved to East Campus (1023 N. Nevada), ca. 2000. Formerly: 1160 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 1100 Wood Ave.
AREA: 3,038 sq. ft.
BUILT: 1934
USE: Sorority House Non residential
KAPPA SIGMA FRATERNITY
ADDRESS: 911 N. Nevada (razed)
COST: $8600.00
Known as Grayson House after July 1943 while the Navy V-12 Training program was on campus.
KAPPA SIGMA FRATERNITY
ADDRESS: 1101 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 32 E. San Rafael
AREA: 5,560 sq. ft.
BUILT: 1961
COST: ca. $100,000
ARCHITECT: Carlisle B. Guy
DEDICATED: November 1961
USE: Fraternity house residental 39 men
It was the plan of the college to have fraternity row on San Rafael across the street from Palmer Hall, with all of the institution’s five national fraternities eventually having residences in that section. It is a 2 story building with full basement containing private rooms, a dining hall, kitchens, chapter room and lounge. Kappa Sigma had $34,000 in their building fund. Hell Week was turned into Help Week in which members assisted the city in cleaning up Austin Bluffs and North Cheyenne Cannon Park to help raise money. Kappa Sigma was established on campus in 1904.
KISSEL HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1110 N. Tejon (razed)
USE: Women’s residence in 1930’s.
KRCC
ADDRESS: Rastall Center, 1960; 117 E. Cache la Poudre, 1984; 912 N. Weber, 1992
AREA: 1,500
BUILT: 1930
ACQUIRED: 1984
LAUNDRY
ADDRESS: 1430 N. Tejon; 1001 N. Tejon
LENNOX HOUSE (Known as Beta Theta Pi l961-1989; renamed Lennox House again, 1989)
ADDRESS: 1001 N. Nevada Ave.
AREA: 13,559 sq. ft.
BUILT: 1900
ACQUIRED: 1936
COST: $100,000; $25,000?
ARCHITECT: Frederick J. Sterner, Denver
DONOR: Part of Lennox estate
HIST. USE: Student Union, 1937-1959; Fraternity House, 31 men, 1961-1989
USE: Residence Dormitory (co-ed), 1989-present
This Moorish/ Southwest/Mission style house, built at the turn of the century, opened as a student center in Sept. 1937. The 17-room house was the legacy of William Lennox, a local banker and CC trustee from 1901-1936. A grille, bookstore, and organization offices were located in the center. The building housed about 30 Beta Theta Pi fraternity members. In 1989, it became a co-ed residence known as Lennox House (again) or the Multicultural House or Glass House (because the students who lived there felt under observation).
LOOMIS HALL
ADDRESS: 1104 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 24 College Place
AREA: 71,717 sq. ft.
YEAR BUILT: 1956
COST: $1,000,000
ARCHITECT: Thomas & Sweet, Colorado Springs; E.H. Baker Construction
DEDICATED: November 2, 1956
USE: Residence Hall 267 co ed
Loomis Hall was originally designed as a women’s hall in 1956 by Thomas & Sweet of Colorado Springs. Named in honor of the first dean of women, Ruth Loomis, the hall now accommodates about 250 students, with separate facilities for men and women. It had a spacious lounge and recreation area. The college telephone center was located here. It originally contained Taylor Dining Hall, built of Ignimbrite or Welded Tuff, costing $250,000 and named for Alice Bemis Taylor.
LOOMIS HOUSE
(razed ca. 1956)
(Also known as Bartlett House and Randall House)
ADDRESS: 1105 Wood Ave.
AREA: 6800 sq. ft.
COST: $3800
ACQUIRED: 1938
USE: Residence for women.
LOVELACE HOUSE
ADDRESS: 917 N. Nevada Ave. (razed?)
ACQUIRED: Purchased February 1963
COST: $77,000
USE: Garage used as recycling center during the 1970’s.
MCGREGOR HALL
ADDRESS: 930 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 1000 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 21,586 sq. ft.
YEAR BUILT: 1903
COST: $28,500
MATERIAL: Red Arkosic Sandstone
DEDICATED: 1904
DONOR: Named in honor of Marion McGregor Noyes, sister of Atherton Noyes, CC Prof.
USE: Residence hall
Originally a women’s dormitory for 45 freshmen, the building was named in honor of Marion McGregor Noyes, sister of Atherton Noyes, CC Professor. A fully equipped gymnasium for women was located in the basement. Later, used as a residence hall for 63 men. In 2005, both men and women students lived there. Public spaces renovated in the summer of 2011.
MATHIAS HALL
ADDRESS: 123 E. Uintah (1988); 1130 N. Nevada Ave.
AREA: 93,000 sq. ft.
BUILT: 1966
COST: $1,700,000
ARCHITECT: Caudill, Rowlett & Scott, Houston Texas (Assoc. Arch. Carlisle B. Guy, Colo. Springs), Weaver Construction of Denver, Contractor
DEDICATED: 1966
USE: Residence Dormitory 316 co ed
Mathias Hall was designed to provide a variety of living accommodations. The 4-story building contains 8 six person suites each with a living room area, 6 ten person houses, 9 sixteen person core areas, and assorted other single and double rooms. Study lounges are located on each floor although some are converted to bedrooms when there is an overflow of students, kitchens on the first floor, a TV theater, conference rooms, a large lounge area, practice room for student bands, 2 bike storage rooms. Several student groups have resource centers in the building, ENACT, the campus environmental group, and CHAVERIM, the Jewish group. Called “Super Dorm” by the students, the hall accommodates over 300.
Mathias Hall was named after Henry Edwin Mathias, a professor of geology and an administrator who served the college in many different offices from 1927 1966.
MAX KADE HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1134 N. Cascade Ave.(1988); 1129 Wood Ave.
BUILT: 1881
DEDICATED: February 16, 1965
ACQUIRED: Puchased February 1963
USE: German residence
The Max Kade Foundation of New York provided $15,000 for remodeling and furnishing the house, and starting a library of German language books and records. Max Kade, President of the Foundation, was a German immigrant who became wealthy in the pharmaceutical industry. The two-story house is built in the Italian villa style.
MECHANICAL LABORATORY
USE: 2 buildings contained the dynamo and mechanical labs for carpentry, forging, and machine work. Colorado College catalog 1907.
MEADOW GOLD BUILDING
ADDRESS: 830 N. Tejon (1988); 27 E. Cache la Poudre
AREA: 8,000 Mowry Creamery
BUILT: 1910
ACQUIRED: 1977
McINTYRE-BARNETT BUILDING
ADDRESS: 107-109 N. Tejon 1/20/39
USE: 1st floor – Safeway officers and lodge rooms
ACQUIRED: donated by Mrs. Pearl U. Hamilton
MIEROW HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1107 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 14 E. San Rafael
AREA: 4,000
BUILT: 1926
DEDICATED: June 5, 1983
ACQUIRED: ca. 1970
USE: Education Department
The Board of Trustees of the college voted in November of 1982 to name the house in honor of Charles Christopher Mierow, fifth president of Colorado College from 1923 to 1934. The house is a one-story bungalow.
MONTGOMERY HALL
ADDRESS: 1030 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 12,270 sq. ft.
BUILT: Corner Stone laid 1889
COST: $15,000
MATERIAL: Ignimbrite or Welded Tuff
ARCHITECT: Walter F. Douglas, Colorado Springs [the Douglas of Douglas & Hetherington]
DEDICATED: Housewarming, June 13, 1891
DONOR: Built & Furnished by W.E.S.
HIST. USE: 1925-37 vacant or in part used for classrooms, Student Union
LATER USE: Residence Hall 25 women
Montgomery Hall was the first women’s residence erected on campus. Built of Castle Rock sandstone and furnished by the Women’s Educational Society who raised $15,000 through bazaars, lectures and various projects. The building was named after Elizabeth Robinson Montgomery, the sister of President Slocum’s wife. A sunporch was added about 1938, gift of Mrs. F. M. P. Taylor. The building was remodeled in 1937 by Edward L. Bunts. It boasts large single rooms.
MORREALE HOUSE (Lindley-Johnson-Vanderhoof House)
Address: 1130 North Cascade Avenue
Built: 1892?
Use: Summer Session and Summer Conferences
Career Center, 2015-
The college purchased this house from the Morreale family in February 2000. Previous owners included Caroline B. Wills (though she did not live there), George E. Lindley, Herbert and Lucy N. Johnson, Dr. Don Allison Vanderhoof, and James and Lucille Vetesk. The Morreales lived in the house from the early 1960s until 1999.
MULLETT HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1128 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 1121 Wood Ave.
AREA: 4,668
BUILT: 1894
ACQUIRED: June 20, 1963
USE: Spanish Residence, Russian (2011)
MUSIC HALL
BUILT: 1895 (razed)
N. NEVADA AVE. HOUSES
ADDRESS: 901 N. Nevada
AREA: 2,500
BUILT: 1890
ADDRESS: 921/23 N. Nevada
AREA: 5,000
BUILT: 1930
ADDRESS: 1015 N. Nevada (Howbert House)
ADDRESS: 1029 N. Nevada
COST: $100,000
Built for W.S. Montgomery. (Jackson House)
ADDRESS: 1126 N. Nevada
ACQUIRED: March 1963
A 3-story 14 room residence of Mr. and Mrs. Harold K. Willard. Razed to make room for Mathias Hall.
ADDRESS: 1130 N. Nevada
ACQUIRED: March 1963
A 2 story 11-room residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Littleton. Razed to make room for Mathias Hall.
NOB HILL OBSERVATORY
ADDRESS: probably current-day Lunar Park, 2112 E. Uintah St.
YEAR BUILT: 1905?
USE: weather observatory
Early CC publications refer to sunshine records from “the Harvard station at Nob Hill” and “the station of the Western Association for Stellar Photography at Knob Hill, about two miles east of the college grounds.” (Both “Nob” and “Knob” spellings seem to have been in use.) See the 1908 CC course catalog, page 140, and/or other CC publications available on Google Books.
OLIN HALL OF SCIENCE
ADDRESS: 1002 N. Nevada Ave.
AREA: 65,000 sq. ft.
YEAR BUILT: 1961
COST: $1,490,400
ARCHITECT: Caudill, Rowlett, & Scott, Houston Texas. Olin Hall won an award of merit for distinguished design in the 1963 Texas Architecture Competition
DEDICATED: Ground Breaking May 16, 1961, September 18, 1962
DONOR: Olin Foundation
USE: Science Building
Olin Hall was donated to the college by the Olin Foundation. The building houses the departments of biology (4th floor), chemistry, (3rd floor) and physics (2nd floor). The deep set windows are due to the unique exoskeletal structure of the buildings. All utilities, including electrical, gas, plumbing, air conditioning, and ventilation are supplied to all rooms in the building through a 5 foot thick perimeter chase around the entire building on each floor. Most buildings use a central utilities chase.
On the ground floor are classrooms, a photo lab, a small lecture room, a machine shop, a small research lab and storage rooms. From this floor a tunnel leads to the lower level of the large lecture room (Olin 1), which is the central room in the appendage to the building on the west. Around this lecture room at the upper level is the glass enclosed lounge and the administrative office area nicknamed the “fishbowl.” A catwalk connects the two parts of the building at the upper level.
The chemistry department is on the third floor. Seminar rooms, research labs, classrooms and a stockroom are on this floor. Research space is much too small for the current move toward more student research during the undergraduate years, but plans are being made to increase the space for all departments in this building in the future.
A 185-seat auditorium is used for a lecture hall and film showings. The glass-enclosed wing contains a greenhouse used by the botany department.
PACKARD HALL
ADDRESS: 5. W. Cache La Poudre (1988)
23 W. Cache La Poudre
823 N. Cascade?
AREA: 52,740 sq. ft.
COST: $2,700,000 & $3,000,000
BUILT: 1974 75
ARCHITECT: Edward Larrabee Barnes, N.Y.
DEDICATED: November 12, 1976
DONOR: Mr. & Mrs. David Packard, California
USE: Music/Art, Dr. Albert Seay Library of Music and Art
The building contains three basic units: a four level performance hall which seats 300. The unifying element is the skylighted gallery used for student exhibitions running the 250 ft. length of the building. The art studio block contains private studio offices for art faculty and semi private studios for advanced students. The studios offer a striking vies of Pikes Peak and the front range. The lower levels house photography, including a well equipped dark room, print making facilities as well as spacious areas for painting and sculpture.
The music section houses ten faculty teaching studios, seven sound proof practice rooms, four course rooms, and an electronic music studio. The electronic music studio houses a Synclavier digital synthesizer, a professional multi track recorder, amplifiers, speakers and other sound processing devices.
The Dr. Albert Seay Library of Music and Art houses scores, recordings, and thousands of slides for use in classes.
The building was a gift of Mr. and Mrs. David Packard of Palo Alto, Ca. in memory of Mr. Packard’s parents, Sperry S. and Ella Graber Packard, both graduates of the class of 1902. David Packard is one of the founders of the electronics firm, Hewlett ¬Packard.
PALMER HALL
ADDRESS: 1025 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 116 E. San Rafael
AREA: 94,560 (287 ft. long x 95 ft. wide; 68,894 sq. ft.)
BUILT: 1903; Cornerstone March 3, 1902
COST: $284,589 Equipment $50,000
MATERIAL: Red sandstone, Peachblow sandstone
ARCHITECT: Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul, Boston; Frederick R. Hastings ‘91, supervising architect; Walter E. Towers of Denver, contractor
DEDICATED: February 23, 1904; Named to National Register of Historic Places, 1986
DONOR: General William Palmer ($25,000), Pearson ($50,000), Stratton ($50,000), anonymous donor ($100,000)
USE: Classrooms
Named for General William Jackson Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs and benefactor of the college, Palmer Hall was originally built as a science and administration building. It was built of peachblow sandstone quarried in the Frying Pan River near Aspen, Colorado and brought to CC on the Colorado Midland Railroad. The interior had been remodeled several times, most recently in the 1970s. The 30 classrooms were remodeled, the ventilation system replaced, new carpeting installed, and the Gates Common Room for faculty was completed. Gates Common Room, which now seats about 200 people, formerly housed the college museum. (Many of the materials from the museum, including the whale skeleton, are now at the Denver Museum of Natural History.)
When it became evident that the college needed a new science building, General Palmer initiated the building fund by pledging $25,000. Dr. Pearsons and W. S. Stratton of Cripple Creek mining fame, followed Palmer’s example, each donating $50,000 in the spring of 1901. Soon after, a local street car company, owned by Stratton, requested the right of way through the center of campus on Tejon Street. The Board of Trustees denied the request because they felt it would disrupt the college atmosphere and that the dust from the trolley would disturb the delicate balance of the instruments in the science labs. The street car company appealed to the City Council for the right to run their tracks through the college. During the Council Meeting, President Slocum from CC argued against the street cars on the grounds that the original deed to the campus, given by the Colorado Springs Company was issued on the condition that the land be used solely for educational purposes. The City Council must have agreed with Slocum’s argument, because they voted unanimously to deny the trolley petition.
On September, 1901, a $100,000 anonymous gift was received for the construction of Palmer Hall. It was rumored to be from General Palmer because he recommended that the building be located on the northern end of campus, squarely across Tejon Street facing south. When the building was finally constructed it was placed exactly where Palmer suggested. The original Palmer Hall was renamed Cutler Hall.
On the first floor were laboratories for chemistry, physics, metallurgy and a large demonstration and lecture room. The second floor housed general lecture rooms, and other laboratories for chemistry and physics. The third floor contained laboratories for biology and psychology, general lecture rooms and a large, well-lighted museum for natural science collections.
Near the head of the west stairway is a large bronze tablet dedicated to General William Jackson Palmer by the survivors of the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Mr. George Foster Peabody of New York, who was a member of the Board of Trustees of Colorado College from 1898-1932 presented a bronze bas-relief of General William Jackson Palmer, the work of Evelyn Beatrice Longman Batchelder. It was unveiled March 12, 1929.
The quote above the main doors, “Know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,” is from the Bible, John 8:31-32, King James version: “31 Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
PATHS ACROSS CAMPUS
(Sidewalks, walkways, pathways, dirt paths)
During the summer of 2011, many of the higher-use campus paths were paved and made into sidewalks with red stone tiles along the edges. Red stone tiles were placed in front of Palmer Hall and in the center of the quad.
PEABODY HOUSE
(razed 1964 for Boettcher Health Center)
ADDRESS: 1106 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA:
BUILT: 1899
ACQUIRED: 1953
COST:
ARCHITECT:
USE: Offices for Alumni Secretary, Director of Development
This 12 room 3-story house was the home of Miss Bertha Field and the former home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Peabody.
PERKINS FINE ARTS HALL
(Razed 1964)
ADDRESS:
AREA: 11,314 sq. ft.
YEAR BUILT: 1900
COST: $37,000
ARCHITECT: Andrews of Andrews, Jaques & Rantoul of Boston
DEDICATED: Corner stone laid June 13,1899
DONOR: Willard B. Perkins gave $24,000. Gifts from townspeople
USE: Auditorium, Art Gallery, Dept. of Music, Chapel
The lower story contained an auditorium, seating 600. The pipe organ in this room was given by Miss Elizabeth Cheney of Boston, Mass., in memory of her brother Charles P. Cheney. The upper story contained the lecture and practice rooms of the Music Department, the College Art Gallery, and the Carnegie Art Collections.
PHI DELTA THETA FRATERNITY
ADDRESS: 1110 N. Nevada Ave. (1988); 116 E. San Rafael
AREA: 16,463
BUILT: 1961
ARCHITECT: Carlisle B. Guy
DEDICATED: November, 1961
USE: Fraternity House 34 men
(See Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity for more complete description of three fraternity houses built in 1961)
PHI DELTA THETA FRATERNITY
ADDRESS: 1105 N. Nevada
AREA: 7,425
COST: $7100.00
Phi Delta Theta founded 1913. Building was also known as Kirkpatrick House after July 1943 when the Navy V-12 Training Program was on campus.
PHI GAMMA DELTA FRATERNITY
ADDRESS: 1122 N. Cascade
AREA: 5,728
COST: $7435.36
USE: Residence for civilian men and emergency infirmary (1944). Founded 1908. Residence enlarged, stuccoed, redecorated and remodeled in 1925.
PHI GAMMA DELTA FRATERNITY
ADDRESS: 103 E. Uintah (1988); 102 E. San Rafael
AREA: 16,463
BUILT: 1961
COST: $450,000 (Total for 3 fraternities)
ARCHITECT: Carlisle B. Guy
DEDICATED: November 1961
USE: Fraternity house 36 men
The three fraternity houses built in 1961 are of steel beam construction with brick and stucco exteriors. The interiors are identical in design. The buildings are two-story structures with basement. The main floors contain a lounge, dining room and kitchen. The second floors have 18 bedrooms. The basements have recreation rooms, a lounge, laundry room and trunk room.
PHYSICAL PLANT
(Van Briggle Pottery Building)
ADDRESS: 1125 N. Glen Ave.
AREA: 20,000 sq. ft.
BUILT: 1907
ACQUIRED: Purchase 1968
COST: $150,000 (purchase price)
ARCHITECT: Nicholas Van Den Arend
USE: Offices for Physical Plant staff
This building, with its unique architectural design, was built by Anne Gregory Van Briggle as a memorial to her husband. Artus Van Briggle, a Dutch artist who studied in Paris, worked with Professor Streiby, a CC metallurgist, to develop a pottery glaze similar to that used during the Ming dynasty. Collections of this award winning work eventually became permanent exhibits at the Louvre and the Smithsonian Institute.
The physical plant coordinates all major maintenance and facility expansion. The building is also headquarters for campus security and vehicle registration. The towers of the kilns and the famous Van Briggle tiles may be seen in the exterior of his lovely old building designed by Dutch architect Nicholas Van Den Arend.
PHYSICAL PLANT
(Transportation)
ADDRESS: 1144 N. Glen
AREA: 2,500
BUILT: 1965
ACQUIRED: 1986
PI KAPPA ALPHA FRATERNITY
ADDRESS: 1115 Wood Ave. (1931)
329 E. Cache la Poudre
818 N. Tejon (1926)
THE PREPARATORY SCHOOL (later Cutler Academy)
ADDRESS: Pikes Peak and Tejon
BUILT: 1874 or earlier
OPENED: May 6, 1874
J. Juan Reid, Colorado College: The First Century (1979), p. 11: “The preparatory division opened on May 6, 1874, in a rented room in the Wanless Block, located in the center of town on the northwest corner of Pikes Peak Avenue and Tejon Street. Eighteen students were enrolled under the tutelage of Minnie MacKenzie and [Jonathan] Edwards.” A glass negative showing the building (SL81-11n, C04), however, has it at the southwest corner. In the 1879 Colorado Springs city directory, the First National Bank’s address is the northwest corner of Pikes Peak and Tejon. In January 1880, the preparatory division moved to the new College building (see Cutler Hall). In 1888, it became known as Cutler Academy. It was dissolved in 1914.
PRESIDENT’S HOUSE (1955-2002 and 2011-)
ADDRESS: 1210 Wood Ave. (originally Earl’s Court)
AREA: 2740 sq. ft. (?)
BUILT: 1900
ACQUIRED: Purchased 1955 from Robert Hendee
ARCHITECT: Douglas & T. Hetherington
USE: Residence of college presidents since Louis Benezet (except for Dick Celeste)
The 13-room colonial style structure is built on two levels. It was originally built in 1900 for attorney William O’Brien and his wife. The college purchased the house in 1955 from Robert Hendee, and all CC presidents from Louis Benezet onward lived in it (other than Dick Celeste, who lived in Stewart House, 1228 Wood, from 2002-2011). In 2011, major renovations to 1210 took place in advance of the new president, Jill Tiefenthaler, moving in with her family.
PRESIDENT’S HOUSE (pre-1955) (Slocum House, Tenney House)
(Razed before Nov. 11, 1955)
ADDRESS: 24 College Place
BUILT: 1883
ACQUIRED: Purchased 1888
In 1939, the President's House was converted to a dormitory and renamed Slocum House. When Slocum Hall (130 East Cache le Poudre) was built in 1954, Slocum House was briefly renamed Tenney House. It was razed in 1955.
QUONSET HUTS
(Removed ca. 1952)
ADDRESS: 100 E. Cache la Poudre
A group of 10 temporary units was erected as rental housing for World War II Veterans in 1946. The community known as Tigertown at one time consisted of 18 families with 27 children.
RASTALL STUDENT CENTER
ADDRESS: 12 W. Cache La Poudre
AREA: 50,000 sq. ft.; 7,500 sq. ft. Patio & Terrace; 16,460 sq. ft. Basement
BUILT: 1958 59
COST: $800,000
ARCHITECT: Bunts, Kelsey, & Bunts, Colorado Springs
DEDICATED: October 24, 1959
DONOR: Benjamin M. Rastall
USE: Student Center
Benjamin Rastall, for whom Rastall Center is named, was a graduate of Colorado College in 1901, trustee from 1950-1960. He provided 1/3 of the cost of the student center. As a student, Rastall worked his way through college by working at various jobs. He was one of the first people in the West to use a typewriter, and convert telegraph messages to print using a typewriter.
The 3 story student center was built in 1958 in a contemporary style “not expected to set a pattern for future campus buildings.” The center housed a 125-seat snack bar called the Hub, the college bookstore, a student operated radio station KRCC, student organ¬ization offices, meeting rooms, a campus information desk, a games room with pool tables and pinball machines, the Security Education Office, mailboxes for students who live off campus, and a large central dining room which seats 400. An Arts and Crafts room which includes a ceramics studio is also located in the center, as well as offices for the Leisure Program Coordi¬nator.
Benjamin’s Basement, a late-night student coffee house or pub, opened in 1975. It served 3.2 beer along with snacks and drinks. It closed when Rastall was enlarged and remodeled in 1986 and renamed the Lloyd E. Worner Campus Center (see Worner Center).
RUSSIAN HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1120 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 2,500
BUILT: 1920
ACQUIRED: 1988
SAN LUIS BUILDING
ADDRESS: 126 E. Cache la Poudre, Nevada & Cache La Poudre
ACQUIRED: Purchased 1923
USE: Engineering drafting room during Navy V-12 Training program 1943-1947.
SAN RAFAEL APARTMENTS
ADDRESS: 214 E. San Rafael
SCHLESSMAN POOL
ADDRESS: 44 W. Cache La Poudre (1988)
AREA: 21,496 – Olympic sized pool
BUILT: 1962 63
COST: $750,000
ARCHITECT: Lusk & Wallace, Colorado Springs; Brian Hughes of Colorado Springs, general contractor
DEDICATED: April 25, 1964
DONOR: Principal donor Gerald L. Schlessman $166,500
USE: Sports
SHOVE MEMORIAL CHAPEL
ADDRESS: 1010 N. Nevada Ave. (1988); 1000 N. Nevada Ave.
AREA: 16,088 (seats 1,000)
BUILT: 1930 31
COST: $325,000
ARCHITECT: John Gray of Pueblo
DEDICATED: November 24,1931; Ground broken June 10, 1930
DONOR: Eugene P. Shove
USE: Chapel; site for concerts, lectures, and other college functions
SCULPTOR: Robert Garrison, Denver, New York
STONE CARVER: John Brice
PAINTED CEILING: Robert Wade, Boston – designer and director
WINDOWS: Reynolds, Francis Rohnstock, Boston
ORGAN: Welte Tripp, a division of the Kimball & Organ Co., Chicago Factory in Conn.
WIDTH OF NAVE: 28 feet 10 inches
LENGTH OF NAVE & CHANCEL: 206 feet 6 inches
WIDTH ACROSS TRANSEPTS: 92 feet 5 inches
PILGRIM ROOM: 15’ x 44’
TOWER: 85 feet
BELLS: Weigh 17,322 lbs.
BELLS: The chapel has five bells. The largest one, weighing 11,200 pounds, sounds the hour. Four smaller bells serving as chimes sound the quarter hour. The smallest bell, which is 31 1/4 inches in diameter, sounds the note “C”. The next, 35 inches in diameter, sounds “A”. The third, 40 inches, sounds “G”. The smallest of the chimes weighs 672 pounds. Inscribed on the large bell is a quotation from “The Prophet” by Kahlid Gibran: “Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.” The bells were transported from England to New York on the steamer Minnetonka of the Atlantic Transport Line, then transferred to another ship and conveyed to San Francisco by way of the Panama Canal. They came to Colorado Springs on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad.
ORGAN: The organ, built by Welte Tripp Organ Corporation, cost $25,000. It has three manuals, three pedals, fifty-four speaking stops, and over three thousand pipes. Nearly all the pipes are hidden from view. The mechanism for the instrument occupies a room in the basement of the chapel. The organ weighs 40,000 pounds and is enclosed in a hand carved oak case costing $3,500. The display pipes, which the congregation sees, are also speaking pipes. The highest spire is 30 feet tall and the entire front gives the appearance of a miniature cathedral.
WINDOWS: The Chancel Rose Window was a gift of Mrs. L. A. Thatcher of Pueblo as a memorial to her late husband, Mahlon Daniel Thatcher. This window portrays the seven liberal arts: Grammar, Rhetoric, and Dialectics (the Trivium), and Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy and Music (the Quadrivium). To these have been added the three faculties of the medieval universities: Law, Medicine, and Theology, the latter at the top of the window. The two rose windows in the Transept represent Science and the Humanities. The south-facing green rose window, in the form of a wheel, honors the Great Teachers of Art. Radiating from the symbol of Philosophy in the center are representations of Alcuin, Roger Bacon, Petrach, Erasmus, Jogn Colet, St. Ignatius Loyola, Melancthon, and Comenius. The ten windows in the Nave present the “History of Introduction of Christianity into Britain” from A. D. 51 55 to 862.
WEST ENTRY: The ceiling is inscribed “So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west and his glory from the rising of the sun,” done in gold upon a field of blue. The plant-like figures to the north and south represent the Tree of Life and Knowledge.
PILGRIM ROOM: From east to west on the southern half of this ceiling are displayed the arms of the cities of Cambridge, England; Kings College; and Amherst. On the northern half are the arms of the Diocese of Winchester, England; Princeton University; and Syracuse University.
SIGMA CHI FRATERNITY
ADDRESS: 1121 N. Nevada Ave. (1988); 1117 N. Nevada Ave.
AREA: 6726 sq.ft.
BUILT: 1890
DEDICATED: February 22, 1932 (established on campus 1905)
USE: Fraternity House Residence 28 men
Founded 1905. Building also known as Berry House after July 1943 when Navy V-12 Training program was on campus.
SIGNAL ROCK CABIN (Gilmore-Stabler Mountain Cabin)
ADDRESS: Florissant, Colorado
AREA: 80 acre site
YEAR BUILT: 1980 (burned down, May 18, 1991; rebuilt, winter, 1992)
COST: $50,000?
ARCHITECT: Bill Parker and Burke Munger class of 1976 were hired as construction supervisors.
DONOR: Land was donated by Don Cameron class of 1943. The Gerald McHugh family donated $50,000 for construction.
USE: Classes, field classes with a base camp, organizations & resident hall wing individuals Eight student workers were chosen from forty to construct the building.
Land comprises 1/2 of Signal Rock Ranch. Donated as a field laboratory and biological preserve in 1976 in honor of Dr. Ralph Gilmore, professor of biology, 1919-1946.
SLOCUM HALL / SOUTH HALL
ADDRESS: 130 E. Cache La Poudre (1988); 900 N. Nevada Ave.
AREA: 64,326
BUILT: 1953 54; Addition of south wing, 1957-58
COST: $670,000 $800,000
FUNDING: $600,000 Federal Loan
ARCHITECT: Edward Bunts & Lamar Kelsey, Colorado Springs
DEDICATED: June 4, 1954; Laying of cornerstone, November 14, 1953 Ground breaking, May 27, 1951
RENOVATED: South Wing built 1957-58. Substantial renovation in the 1990s.
HIST. USE: Residence hall for men. Went co-ed ca. 1970.
USE: Residence hall
Originally named for William Frederick Slocum, president of the college from 1888-1917. The brick and concrete building marked a change in construction methods for campus buildings: previously all buildings had been stone. Construction of the south wing in 1957-58 added about 90 beds. At that time, rooms were singles and doubles; in 2017, Slocum Hall contained 270 beds in doubles and triples. When the "Slocum Affair" received new attention in 2018, the building was re-named South Hall.
SOUTH HALL
ADDRESS: south side of Cache la Poudre
Moved with two other temporary buildings (East and West Hall) to campus from Peterson Field in 1947. South Hall was the site of the radio studio.
SPENCER CENTER
ADDRESS: 830 N. Tejon
ACQUIRED: 1991 (previously the Plaza Hotel)
USE: Development, Human Resources, administrative offices (2005)
Purchased in 1991 and named for William I. Spencer, CC Class of 1939 and Chairman of the Board of Trustees in the 1980s. The building has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983. From 1901-1903, CC rented the west wing for a women’s dormitory, and the college bookstore was on the main floor from 1920-1941.
STEWART FIELD
ACQUIRED: 1935
AREA: 4 acres
DONOR: Philip B. Stewart
USE: Outdoor athletics
Stewart Field is used for soccer, lacrosse and women’s field hockey today. On Memorial Day 1935 a devastating flood swept down Monument Creek destroying part of Monument Valley Park. The disaster proved to be a blessing for Colorado College. The four acre sector of the park was deeded to the college by the city. Philip B. Stewart, a trustee of the college, then provided funds to convert the area into a baseball diamond and football practice field.
STEWART HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1228 Wood Ave.
AREA: 12,000 sq. ft.
YEAR BUILT: 1899
COST: $45,000
ARCHITECT: Varian & Sterner, New York & Denver
DONOR: Sarah Frances Cowles Stewart (d. 1948), wife of Philip B. Stewart, bequeathed the house to CC.
USE: Social gatherings for the college community until 2002, President’s House 2002-2011
Stewart House was completed around 1898 for Mr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Preston and purchased by the Stewarts in 1902. Preston was a prominent attorney for the Colorado Springs firm Hall, Prescott and Babbitt. The house, with its brick walls, stone columns, and Greek-Corinthian style arches was one of the first homes built on “Millionaires’ Row.” Mrs. Preston died from complications in childbirth in 1900, and her husband immediately sold “the Castle.”
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Battell Stewart bought the property in 1902 for $45,000. Philip Stewart became a trustee of Colorado College in 1900 and coached the CC baseball team from 1902-05. He had grown up in Vermont where his father had served as governor, congressional representative and Senator. He was a successful businessman with interests in mining and Colorado politics, and a friend and hunting companion of President Theodore Roosevelt, who visited the Stewart House in 1904 or ‘05 before and after a Colorado hunting trip. Stewart ran for governor of Colorado unsuccessfully in 1912, became the chairman of the state Republican Party in 1915 and speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives in 1916. He was an avid conservationist and fought exploitation Colorado’s natural resources as well as corruption in business.
“PB” Stewart was also an art lover and decorated his home lavishly. A fine collection of Audubon prints were displayed on the dining room walls. Oriental carpeting covered the ornately carved stairway, hung from the second floor railings and covered the floors throughout the house. Colorful fabric wall coverings from India were used in the south living rooms. The dining room held a “Jacobethan” table and sideboard and a straight-back Elizabethan chairs covered in needlepoint. These were commissioned by Mrs. Stewart to tell the story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. The “chinoiseerie” wall covering was designed by the artist Jean Pillement round 1770. Robert Lewis Stevenson once owned the porcelain platter displayed on the mantel.
The Stewarts contributed generously to the college over the years, donating scholarships and financing the purchase of "Stewart Field" as well as its restoration after the devastating 1935 Monument Creek flood. In her will, Sarah Francis Cowles Stewart bequeathed her home to Colorado College with the provision that her husband and the caretaker family would live there until their deaths. She died in 1948. Mr. Stewart retired from CC in 1954 and died in 1957. He had been a Colorado College trustee for over fifty years.
At first the building housed visiting faculty and other guests while President Benezet attempted to find an appropriate “professional or charitable organization” to use the space. Apartments and a “Faculty Club” were also suggested. Complaints from neighbors and zoning questions soon started to limit the possibilities. When Provost James Stauss and his wife Harriet moved in, the house once again became a social center and meeting place for the “Faculty Club.” Since Stauss’s death in 1976, a succession of residents have acted as “hosts” for college related functions.
The large, grand house contains four fireplaces upstairs and five downstairs, and has seven bedrooms. Although many of the furnishings and valuable artworks have been removed and other pieces have been donated, the dining room still holds the Stewarts’ table, chairs and sideboard, and the Stevenson platter sits on the mantle. Several family portraits decorate other rooms. The Butler’s Pantry (later the kitchen) has a “bell system.” The two-story entryway with its carved columns and paneling in black Italian walnut still provides an impressive welcome to visitors.
From 2002-2011, Stewart House was the President’s House for Richard Celeste and his family.
STUDENT CULTURAL CENTER
(Formerly Political Action House, Alpha Phi House)
ADDRESS: 1070 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 1060 Wood Ave.
AREA: 1,740 sq. ft.
BUILT: 1925
COST: $5500
DEDICATED: Opened as PACC House October 31, 1967.
USE: Headquarters for MECHA, Black Student Union & Native American Student Association
SUPERINTENDENT’S HOUSE
ADDRESS: Behind Hagerman
TEJON ST. PROPERTY
ADDRESS: 1131 N. Tejon; 15 E. Uintah
BUILT: 1903
ACQUIRED: 1963
COST: $90,000
The Shoup mansion, once the home of former Colorado governor Oliver Henry Shoup, was built by Verner Z. Reed. The carriage house was remodeled into a private home.
TENNEY HOUSE
(formerly Crouch House)
(razed 2006 for parking lot)
ADDRESS: 1112 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 5,425
BUILT: 1886
ACQUIRED: Purchased by Colorado College August 12, 1963
USE: Women’s residence (19 women)
1993-94 Theme House - Cultural Awareness House
Tenney House was named for Edward Payson Tenney (CC president 1876-1884) when the former Tenney House (also known as President’s House) was razed to make way for Loomis Hall. It was built in 1886 by Springs contractor S.E. Sessions for William Anderson. City directories have Dr. and Mrs. Charles Fox Gardiner at this address from 1913-1946.
TICKNOR HALL
ADDRESS: 926 N. Cascade Ave. (1988); 1010 N. Cascade Ave.
BUILT: 1897 98
COST: $20,000
MATERIAL: Red and Green Dolostone
ARCHITECT: Douglas & Hetherington, Colorado Springs
DEDICATED: January 11, 1898
DONOR: Miss Elizabeth Chaney Kaufman
USE: Women’s residence, 36
For a time, Career center, lower level
Ticknor Hall is a women’s residence hall. It was named in honor of Miss Anna Ticknor, a dear friend of the donor, Mrs. Elizabeth Cheney Kaufman. The building is constructed of Ute Pass sandstone in classic Renaissance style.
The hall originally contained a dining room, kitchen, servant’s room, a large cold storage room, a bicycle stable, and an infirmary. For a time, the Career Center was located in Ticknor on the lower level.
TILLOTSON HALL
ADDRESS: Corner Weber and Columbia
BUILT: 1897
USE: Student’s Club House; women’s residence
TUTT ALUMNI HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1205 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 10,000
125 ft. on Cascade Ave. 190 ft. East to the alley on Uintah St.
BUILT: 1898
ACQUIRED: 1959
COST:
ARCHITECT: E. C. G. Robinson
DEDICATED: June 1, 1986
DONOR: Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Tutt, 1959
USE: Alumni Center, Offices, meetings, social events
This house contains 9 fireplaces, a full basement and a 6-car garage.
TUTT LIBRARY
ADDRESS: 1021 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 55,000
YEAR BUILT: 1962
COST: $1,250,000
ARCHITECT: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Chicago
DEDICATED: October 12, 1962
Ground breaking October 29, 1960
DONOR: EL Pomar Foundation Grant
USE: Library
TUTT LIBRARY ADDITION
ADDRESS: 1021 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 24,000 sq. ft.
YEAR BUILT: 1979 80
COST: $1.6 million
ARCHITECT: Carlisle B. Guy
DEDICATED: October 4, 1980
DONOR: El Pomar Foundation Grant
USE: Addition to Library
With the opening of the new wing and extensive modification of the original building in September 1980, Tutt Library ranked among the finest and largest college level academic facilities in the U. S. The expansion project was founded by a grant from the El Pomar Foundation of Colorado Springs.
After the expansion, the facility consisted of 79,000 sq. ft. and had a stack capacity for 500,000 volumes and a seating capacity of 800. (At that time, the book collection was about 305,000 volumes.) In 1882 the books were classified according to the Dewey Decimal Classif¬ication system by Frank Loud, a science professor and librarian who was a classmate of Melvil Dewey’s at Amherst when Dewey first introduced his scheme. The Dewey system was used until 1987 when conversion to Library of Congress began.
In 2004, the lower two floors of the annex were renovated to make room for the Learning Commons, which included the Colket Student Learning Center (Writing Center, Quantitative Reasoning Center, Office of First Year and Sophomore Studies and Advising, Colket Fellow in Reading and Writing), the CAT lab, and the Crown Faculty Center.
TUTT LIBRARY MAJOR RENOVATION 2017
COMPLETED: Fall 2017
ARCHITECT: Pfeiffer Partners
TUTT SCIENCE CENTER (Russell T. Tutt Science Center)
ADDRESS: 1112 N. Nevada
AREA: 54,000 square feet
ARCHITECT: Moore Ruble Yudell of Santa Monica, California
DEDICATED: 2003
DONORS: The El Pomar Foundation donated 5 million in honor of Russell T. Tutt, and 300 other donors gave to the campaign.
USE: labs and smart classrooms
A “green” building, designed to pass or exceed LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards. Houses Environmental Science, Psychology/Neuroscience, Mathematics, and Geology. Named for Russell T. Tutt, CC board member from 1957-1992, Chairman of the El Pomar Foundation, and son of Charles Leaming Tutt. In 2005 it became the first building in southern Colorado to earn LEED certification.
UTILITY BUILDING
BUILT: 1914
USE: Contained Electrical Engineering Lab. west of shops and Power House.
W. UINTAH
ADDRESS: 15 W. Uintah
Garage.
ADDRESS: 17 W. Uintah
BUILT: 1915
WASHBURN FIELD
Washburn Field is located west of the campus in the bottom land east of Monument Creek. It was constructed in 1898. In 1899 Washburn Field was named for Rev. Philip Washburn, a rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church and a personal friend of General Palmer’s. Rev. Washburn was very interested in the college, and it is said he never missed a practice or an athletic event of the college. It included a football field encircled by a 440 yard track, a baseball diamond, a grandstand seating 600 including box seats, and parking space for carriages, tallyhos, and other vehicles. It was dedicated May 12, 1898 preceding a Colorado College Colorado School of Mines baseball game.
In 1925 Edmund C. van Diest, then trustee of the college embarked on a planning and construction of a 9,000 seat stadium with stands for both sides of Washburn Field. James J. Burns, Colorado plumber contributed funds to build these additional stands. In addition a turf playing field was installed to replace the hard dirt playing surface. This was completed in the fall of 1926.
WEITBREC HOUSE
(razed 1972)
ADDRESS: 1105 N. Nevada Ave.
BUILT: 1879 (1881?)
ACQUIRED: 1914
COST: $25,000
ARCHITECT: Contractors Roby & Whipple
USE: Occupied by Phi Delta Theta Fraternity from 1927 1959. Most recently it had been the home of Ruth Washburn Cooperative Nursery, the Junior League and the Retarded Children’s Association.
This 17-room house was built for R.F. Weitbrec, an official of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
WEST HALL
ADDRESS: west of Palmer, adjacent to Cascade Ave.
This building with East Hall and South Hall were moved from Peterson Field in 1947. West Hall was used for offices and classrooms. Sold to Boyce House Moving Company in 1961.
WESTERN RIDGE HOUSING COMPLEX
ADDRESS: SW corner of Cascade and Uintah
AREA: 135,418 square feet
BUILT: August 2001
ARCHITECT: Sasake Associates of San Francisco and Bennet Wagner & Grody of Denver
COST: 20.6 million
DEDICATED: Fall 2001
USE: residential apartments, commons, dining facility
Includes building named after fourteeners: Crestone, El Diente, Elbert, Windom (Spanish), Antero, Blanca. Elbert, 1138 N. Cascade, is also known as building E-F, Elf House, and Asian Language House. It has a Japanese garden designed by Master Gardener Takashi Hayashi of Tokyo in 2003. Upgrades to kitchens, floors, and finishes began in the summer of 2011. In the fall of 2011, the West Wing was Italian and the East Wing was Japanese and Chinese.
WOLCOTT OBSERVATORY
(razed October 1969)
ADDRESS: 44 W. Cache La Poudre St.
AREA: 1,300
BUILT: 1894
CONTRACTOR: A. Bourquin
DEDICATED: June, 1894
DONOR: Henry R. Wolcott, Denver
Sidereal Clock & Transit, were given by father of Dr. A. A. Blackman, a previous member of the C. C. faculty.
USE: Observatory, Associated Women’s Students, (1934- Foster Home Coffee House
The observatory building contains a lecture room, study, transit room and dome room.
1934 - headquarters of Colorado College Campus Club.
WOMAN’S CLUB OF COLORADO SPRINGS CLUBHOUSE
ADDRESS: 20 Mesa Road
DONOR: Woman’s Club of Colorado Springs, 2003
USE: Meeting space (2011)
See Ms 0366 in CC Special Collections for more information.
WOOD AVENUE HOUSES
ADDRESS: 1107-09 Wood Ave.
BUILT: 1904
ADDRESS: 1111 Wood Ave.
BUILT: 1904
Also known as Wilcox House.
ADDRESS: 1115 Wood Ave.
BUILT: 1905
ADDRESS: 1119 Wood Ave. (razed 1978)
BUILT: Before 1890
ARCHITECT: Built by S.E. Sessions
In 1890 this building was the home of Florian Cajori.
ADDRESS: 1130 Wood Ave.
BUILT: 1895
This 3 1/2 story colonial revival home was of cream colored brick and stone with wood trim. Also known as Gooch House, it was built by Dr. Sidney Bartlett.
ADDRESS: 1137 Wood Ave.
ADDRESS: 1140 Wood Ave. (razed in 1940’s?)
BUILT: 1894
ARCHITECT: Thomas MacLaren
This 2 1/2 story colonial revival masonry and clapboard home was built by Frank Woods, one of the founders of Victor, Colo.
ADDRESS: 1103 Wood Ave.
ACQUIRED: 1948 - Women’s residence
ADDRESS: 1206 Wood Ave.
USE: Pres. Davies moved in 1939
WOOD HOUSE
ADDRESS: 1116 N. Cascade Ave. (1988)
1107 Wood Ave.
BUILT: 1920
ACQUIRED: 1970
USE: Theme residence house 12 co ed
1993-94 - Society for Creative Anachronism
House (Tygre’s Keep)
WORNER CENTER
(Lloyd Edson Worner Student Center)
ADDRESS: 902 N. Cascade Ave.
AREA: 87,492
BUILT: Remodeled Rastall Center 1987
DONOR: $5 million donation, El Pomar Foundation
COST: $7.2 million
DEDICATED: Oct. 10, 1987
ARCHITECT: John James Wallace & Associates; Clifford Nakata & Associates
CONTRACTOR: Gerald H. Phipps, Inc. of Denver
Named in honor of former President Lloyd E. “Lew” Worner, the new student center is built around its predecessor Rastall Center. In 1987, the newly remodeled structure included a 489-seat dining hall (Gaylord Hall), a bookstore, galleries for students’ and professionals’ art and crafts display (Coburn Gallery), a post office, various meeting rooms, offices for the Leisure program and for student organizations, and “Benjamin’s, an update of the Hub quick-grill that existed in the old center.
Rooms in the new center were named for historic buildings and residence halls formerly part of the campus. In addition to Gaylord Hall and Coburn Gallery named above, other rooms include Perkins Lounge and Commons, Rastall Dining Hall, the Wolcott Room and Benjamin’s on the main level; Hagerman Student Organization Area, the Edwards Room, Gregg Room, Hayes Room, Hershey Room, Howbert Room, Peabody Room and Quonset Room are located on the second level. The W.E.S. Room is on the lower level. Also in Worner: Office of Minority Student Life (founded 1990), became Office of Minority and International Students (OMIS, 2007), became the Butler Center, named for African-American alum Ellis Ulysses Butler, Jr., CC class of 1940.
During the summer of 2011, the dining areas in Worner were significantly remodeled.
E. YAMPA
ADDRESS: 215 E. Yampa
BUILT: 1923
ZELATHIAN SOCIETY
ADDRESS: 15 W. Cache la Poudre (1930)
