<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/magazine/summer-2006/hall-westmont-built.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>The Hall that Westmont Built</title><excerpt>Enrollment at Westmont grew steadily in the 1950s, creating crowded conditions on campus. Building Page Hall in 1959 eased the housing situation, but only temporarily. By 1960, college officials started planning for another residence hall. Too many students lived off campus in Emerson Hall on Ashley Road or at the former Bliss estate on Hot Springs Road. Facilities on campus provided less-than-ideal quarters: Quonset huts and the unrefurbished Deane School buildings called the Cold Spring Units.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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