2-6., 1798-1971.

Includes: timeline of construction; National Park Service report on "Old North Building, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.", 1964; snapshot of brick from Old North in foyer of America Press building in New York, 1968; image of Old North featured in Riggs Bank newspaper ad and Christmas card, 1964; note re reaction to assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy ("Nov. 22, 1963. At 3pm a hastily erected altar on the porch of Old North provided a Mass for the repose of the soul of President Kennedy who had been assassinated an hour previously. The Mass was read by the Dean of Discipline, Fr. Devine, and the Quad was crowded with students."; paper: "Did You Ever Hear of the Blimp?" by Peter J. Collins, Jr., c. 1931 ("Sometime just after the war, Fr. McDonough tells us, Georgetown found itself in need of a little extra rooming space. The college halls couldn't accommodate all who came, and the rules of the time frowned on the idea of living out. Then some eagle-eye discovered there was an attic in Old North, then only the North Building. This space was being used for storage, and nothing else. It was quickly fitted up as a big dormitory, to hold twenty-eight. At one time it held fifty-eight . . . At first the Blimp was not a place of punishment . . . It wasn't so hard to get into the Blimp. One merely arranged to contract fifty demerits . . . The Blimp was cut into rooms when Old North was renovated and New North was built . . ."; Fr. Barnum's stray notes re carcer (room in west tower above St. Ann's Chapel used "for the incarceration of any refractory students") and St. Ann's Chapel. Also includes stray notes on use of rooms, with postcard of Old North on which the location of the museum, Rector's room, Library, and physics room were marked.