page_title: Connecticut College
section_title: Campus
hierarchical_section_title: Connecticut College / Campus
caption_attribution_description: Harkness House on the campus of Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut.
context_page_description: Connecticut College is a private liberal arts college in New London, Connecticut. It is a residential, four-year undergraduate institution with nearly all of its approximately 1,815 students living on campus. The college was founded in 1911 as "Connecticut College for Women" in response to Wesleyan University closing its doors to women in 1909; it shortened its name to "Connecticut College" in 1969 when it began admitting men.
  Students choose courses from 41 majors, including an interdisciplinary, self-designed major. The college is a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference.
context_section_description: The main campus has three residential areas. The North Campus contains the newest residential halls. The South Campus contains residence halls along the west side of Tempel Green, across from several academic buildings. The oldest dorms on campus are Plant House and Blackstone House, which were founded in 1914.
  Connecticut College's two principal libraries are the Charles E. Shain Library and the Greer Music Library, which is located in the Cummings Arts Center. The Shain Library houses a collection of more than 500,000 books and periodicals and an extensive collection of electronic resources; it is also home to The Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives, and to the Charles Chu Asian Art Reading Room. ]The Lear Center has more than 50 book, manuscript and art collections including  research archives devoted to Rachel Carson, Eugene O'Neill, and Beatrix Potter. The Charles Chu Asian Art Reading Room serves both as a quiet reading area and as the permanent exhibition space for the Chu-Griffis Art Collection.
  The student center is called Crozier Williams College Center is located in Central Campus often called "Cro". The student center houses the Connecticut College bookstore, small convenience store, the campus post office, the Oasis Snack Shop and the campus bar (The Cro Bar). As well as some of the student services offices, performance spaces.
  The Shain library was originally dedicated in 1976 and is named after former College President Charles Shain. It was renovated, expanded, and re-dedicated in 2015, and that renovation was honored by the American Institute of Architects with a 2015 New England Honor Award in the category of Preservation.  In 2016, LibraryJournal named the library a New Landmark Libraries Winner.
  Features of the renovated library include:
  The Technology Commons with a state of the art Christie Micro Tile Visualization Wall.
  The Digital Scholarship and Curriculum Center.
  The Academic Resource Center.
  Collaboration rooms, outfitted with whiteboard walls and LCD panels on which students can share laptop displays.
  Performance spaces on campus include: 
  Palmer Auditorium
  Tansill Theater, housed in Hillyer Hall
  Myers Dance Studio, housed in Crozier-Williams College Center
  Harkness Chapel
  Evans Music Hall
  Fortune Recital Hall
  Oliva Hall, housed in Cummings Art Center.
  Palmer Auditorium was home to the American Dance Festival from 1947 to 1977, featuring choreographers such as Martha Graham, José Limón, and Merce Cunningham in what was called "the most important summertime event in modern dance."
  The Connecticut College Arboretum is a 750-acre (3 km²) arboretum and botanical garden. Students frequently go to the arboretum to walk, study, or otherwise enjoy nature.
  Harkness Chapel is a fine example of noted architect James Gamble Rogers' colonial Georgian style, with twelve stained glass windows by G. Owen Bonawit. The building is used for denominational religious services, as well as for ceremonies, concerts and recitals, weddings, and other public functions.
  
  The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is located on campus, although it is not connected to the campus proper. The museum's web site states that "the permanent collection includes over 10,000 paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, furniture, and decorative arts, with an emphasis on American art from the 18th through 20th centuries." This collection is "housed in a handsome Neo-Classical building designed by Charles A. Platt".
caption: Harkness House
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