Adams Hall

Adams Hall opened in 1949 as a woman's dormitory and named for its initiate, Karl L. Adams, President of Northern from 1929 to 1948. Joliet marble, shaped in a Collegiate Gothic design, constitutes the exterior of a building that provided nearly luxurious accommodations, not found on campus today, for women students: furnished linens laundered twice per week, Bavarian china and good silver used for meal service, and Silver hollow ware used for Tea each afternoon. The building converted to administrative office space in 1967.