old Mohn Hall

some years after construction

maybe from soon after construction in early 1910s

As I'm reading AmCon 201 papers, "A Day in the Life of an Ole," I'm frequently taken inside various rooms of old Mohn Hall, the women's residence that stood on the site now occupied by the renovated and renamed Tomson Hall.  In order to stimulate my imagination I looked up some photos of the woman's residence that was torn down to make room for the then new science center (dedicated in 1968), now replaced by Regents Hall.

Here's a charming account (non-fictional) from the College Archives of move-in day in 1912:

In the annals of St. Olaf, February 12th is historic not only because of the annual recognition of Lincoln's birthday, but because on that day in 1912 some over a hundred women students living in homes on St. Olaf Avenue, Forest Avenue, and all streets between trekked up the Hill with suitcases and boxes, while Lewis Larson hauled their trunks to their new home.

Notice the size of those trees then in comparison to now.