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Correspondence from Dean Eleanor Clifton to students living on the Residence Campus.

The College began leasing a house on No. 49 Cypress Street as a dormitory circa 1918. By 1924, the College was leasing an additional four houses on Cypress Street. The Cypress Street houses were closed in 1933, as the number of resident students had…

Dix Hall was completed in 1953 and was designed by the architectural firm the Austin Company. Dix Hall could house 120 students and was named after Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887), a social and medical reform activist, whose will stipulated that her…

Dorothea Guppy, Library Assistant, mending books in the Library Work Room 415.

East House was included as part of the sale when the College purchased a 60,000 sq. ft. parcel of land on Brookline Avenue, Short Street, and Bellevue Street (later renamed Pilgrim Road) for $67,500 in July 1904.

Effective July 1, 1953, the…

Elizabeth Buxton, Head Resident of Sarah Mortimer Hall (1963-64) and Smith Hall (1964-66) with Renee Pocrass (Levy), Class of 1966, in a dorm room.

Emily Weeks, Matron of South Hall and College dormitory houses (1905-1907), holding a cat while sitting on a porch outdoors in a chair.

Mildred Halfmann Gilman, Class of 1939, Barbara Ditmars, Class of 1939, and Mrs. Luther Halfmann seated at a table on the Residence Campus in front of Evans Hall during Class Day on June 10, 1939.

Construction for Evans Hall began in July 1938. The Hall was named after Maria Antoinette Evans, a widow of the former President of the United States Rubber Company. Despite having no direct ties to Simmons, Mrs. Evans bequeathed the College $100,000…

Excerpt from The Simmons Song Book, "Dump Song," 1935.