CARLI Digital Collections Featured Image: Residence Hall (Sohlberg Hall), 1951

This photograph shows two women studying in a dorm room in Sohlberg Hall, providing a glimpse into the interior of a residence hall room as well as campus life at North Park College in the early 1950s.

Sohlberg Hall was completed in 1951 and housed 105 women on the upper three floors. The original plans for a new women’s dormitory showed a building built in a Georgian colonial design with a gambrel roof similar in appearance to Caroline Hall and Nyvall Hall. The plans were later changed, and the building was constructed in a modern style with a flat roof. The dormitory was named Sohlberg Hall, in honor of Dean of Women Helen Sohlberg. The dormitory was converted into a men’s dormitory in 1966 after Anderson Hall was built but it was not redecorated. The men complained about the "feminine appearance of the rooms and washrooms."

One of the newest additions to CARLI Digital Collections, the Historical Photograph Collection presents digital images (270 at present, and counting) of North Park University and the Evangelical Covenant Church. The source images in the Covenant Archives and Historical Library (CAHL) record the activities of the school and the denomination from 1885 to present are held by the F. M. Johnson Archives and Special Collections in Brandel Library on the campus of North Park University in Chicago, Illinois. The University's photographs depict North Park campus and its institutions, North Park Theological Seminary, North Park College, a Junior College prior to 1956 and University starting in 1997, and North Park Academy, which closed its doors in 1969. They feature individuals who helped shape the institution, events and traditions, buildings and campus architecture since its founding in 1891. Photographs of the Evangelical Covenant Church depict founders of the denomination, church members, leaders, missionaries, events, buildings, and activities both nationally and internationally.

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