Named For: Albert Farr’s wife’s family, the original occupants of the house.

Location: 121 Thorne Street, the intersection of Thorne and Ransom Streets.

Date of Construction: Early 1880s.

Date of College Acquisition: Parkhurst was acquired during the Culbertson term, between 1917 and 1921. Shirley Farr deeded the house to the College.

Former Uses: Originally used by the college as the residence for President Culbertson, 1917-1921. After 1921, it became a women’s dormitory (Pi Delta Omega sorority, later Alpha XI Delta). It housed 15 students and a housemother.

Remarks: The name Parkhurst Hall had previously been used for the present Hughes House. When President Evans left Ripon in 1917, his home on the corner of Woodside and Seward Streets became a dormitory for women displaced from Bartlett by the Army SATC. Until 1921 it was known as Parkhurst. When Evans returned in 1921, he moved back into the present Evans Admission Center (previously known as Hughes House). Meanwhile the Culbertsons had left the former home of the Parkhurst family on Thorne Street. It then became a women’s dormitory with the name Parkhurst.

Razed or Sold: Auctioned to John Zei following completion in 1962 of Johnson and Scott Hall in 1964, which then housed all sororities. It was afterwards sold to Dr. and Mrs. Earle Scott.