Emma Dempster-Greenbaum

The Stiles House History and Community at Hampshire College

History and Community

❖ Hampshire lacks the long history of neighboring colleges.!

❖ Educational model facilitates isolation!

❖ Complaints/concerns about lack of campus community!

❖ Creating a campus history can facilitate community-building, sense of continuity

Hampshire Admissions Office

❖ First encounter with Hampshire!

❖ Agricultural heritage!❖ Unusual location!❖ Former home of Robert Stiles

(1906-1986)

Robert Stiles❖ Born February 11th, 1906!❖ Inherited father’s dairy farm!❖ 1965: Sells land to Charles

Longworth for undisclosed purpose; offered lifetime tenancy!

❖ Works for campus Post Office, 1966-1986!

❖ “My old farm would make a very good college.”

Exhibit

❖ Exhibit at Hampshire College Library!

❖ History of other “original” campus buildings; campus agricultural history!

❖ Models, documents, photographs