St John. Observatory (left), Stickney Hall (center), Seabury Hall (right). Photo Credit: Trinity College Archives.

Stickney Hall, later called the Campus Cottage, was a nondescript wooden house that served as College dining, student commons, and later, the home of the Brownell Club.

Hardly had the embers of the old gym cooled [in 1896] when an almost exact replica was erected to the south of Seabury Hall to provide a French classroom, a mechanical drawing room, and a reading room. The students called this building “Martin Hall” for Professor Winfred R. Martin, whose French classroom was located there. Fortunately, Martin Hall remained only a few years. In 1902, it was replaced by a commons building of two stories. The students called the new commons “Stickney Hall” for Mr. and Mrs. Stickney who managed the college dining facilities from 1900 until World War I. ¹⁾

Stickney stood South of Seabury Hall on the Long Walk until 1931, when it was moved to make way for Cook Commons (later the Hamlin Dining Hall). The Brownell Club, which was organized in 1948, established a room in Stickney Hall in 1950. The structure was demolished in 1962 to make way for McCook Academic Building, which stands on the same site.

Trinity College in the Twentieth Century (2000) by Peter and Anne Knapp, pp. 47, 125.

The History of Trinity College (1967) by Glenn Weaver, p. 236.