Carleton College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, the 200-acre (81 ha) main campus is between Northfield and the approximately 800-acre (320 ha) Cowling Arboretum, which became part of the campus in the 1920s.
Aerial view of the campus
Friedrich Schiller
The Laurence McKinley Gould Library operates all days of the week, and was built in 1956 and enlarged in 1983.
Goodsell Observatory at Carleton College is on the National Register of Historic Places and is currently the largest observatory in Minnesota.
Northfield is a city in Dakota and Rice counties in the State of Minnesota. It is mostly in Rice County, with a small portion in Dakota County. The population was 20,790 at the 2020 census. Northfield is 40 miles south of the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul and is an exurb of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.
Downtown Northfield, September 2010
The Ames Mill on the Cannon River
The First National Bank in the Scriver Building in Northfield, Minnesota, site of the attempted robbery
The Scriver Building in Northfield, Minnesota