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The Kirkland College Letterbox LbNA #25908 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Sep 3, 2006
Location:
City:Clinton
County:Oneida
State:New York
Boxes:1
Found by: TreasureHunters1989
Last found:Oct 8, 2006
Status:FFaaaa
Last edited:Sep 3, 2006
GONE MISSING [But I will replace this A.S.A.P!]

Kirkland College was a women’s liberal arts school next door to Hamilton College (before the two “merged” or “went co-ed”). Tour the campus of this once-and-future institution - sometimes referred to as the “dark side” of the Hamilton Campus – which existed only during the strange years between 1968-78.

Directions to Hamilton College, Clinton NY: Take the New York State Thruway (Rt. 90) to Westmoreland, Exit 32. Pass through the toll booths and take a right at the light. Turn left onto Rt. 233 at the light. Travel 5.1 miles on Rt. 233 into the village of Clinton and take a right at the flashing light onto College Hill Road. (There will be a large stone sign on the corner to your right that reads Hamilton College.)

Go up College Hill Road about a half mile and look for signs on the left. Visitors can park at Elihu Root House (Admissions) or the Anderson-Connell building (Alumni Center) just past it.

Walk up the hill on the sidewalk until you come to Emerson Hall (on left). Just past it, turn left onto a road leading towards the Kirner-Johnson Building. This was once the entrance to Kirkland College.

Going straight ahead, you’ll come to a concrete building and brick patio/walkway. Just to your right is a wrought-iron archway-to-nowhere, a sort of Victorian monument to Kirkland’s existence. Go up the brick steps – to your left is McEwen Hall, which housed Kirkland’s dining hall, coffeehouse and meeting area (now you can stop in for coffee at the little “Café Opus”). Follow the brick walkway and you will pass under the List Arts Center (note fragments of an enamel sculpture fixed to a curved concrete wall – these are all that remains of Beverly Palusky’s metal mural). This was the heart of Kirkland, and still houses studio, practice rooms and performance spaces. Coming out into the open again, the path will take you towards a cluster of dormitories. Three of these (Major, Minor, and McIntosh Halls) were all that existed when the first class of women came to Kirkland in 1968. The road to the dorms was unpaved at the time, and 1969 was a very mud-lucious spring.

As you approach Major Hall, take the paved path to the left. This will lead you towards a parking lot. On the left side of the lot you’ll see a sign to Root Glen (this is the far end of the same Glen where “When In Rome” and “Japanese Lantern” letterboxes are hidden). Enter the woods and take the first fork to the right. You will come to a tree on the right with a label (Sugar Maple #32), and a really old stump on the left. A little further ahead is a tall stump with many woodpecker holes. At its foot is a small opening stuffed with bark and leaves – find our box there and replace carefully!