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 ====== Wiggins Dormitory ====== ====== Wiggins Dormitory ======
  
-Wiggins was a student dormitory located at 76 Crescent Street.+[{{:tai_soo_kim_dorms.png?800|Photo Credit: Trinity //Tripod//, January 20, 1987.}}]
  
-In 1982, Wiggins was named in honor of J. Gregory Wigginswho created the wood carvings on the pews in the [[chapel|Trinity College Chapel.]] +Wiggins was a student dormitory located at 76 Crescent Streetwhich contained twenty beds and a mentor's apartment. It was part of the "[[crescent_village|Crescent Village]]" which included [[frohman-robb_dormitory|Frohman-Robb]] as well as [[little_dormitory|Little Dormitory]].
  
-The dormitory was demolished in 2013-2014 to make space for the new Crescent Street Townhouses and surface parking.+In 1982, Wiggins was named in honor of John Gregory Wiggins, of Pomfret, CT, who created the [[pew_ends|wood carvings on the pews]] in the [[chapel|Trinity College Chapel.]] For his work on the Chapel, the College presented Wiggins with an [[honorary_degrees|honorary Master of Arts degree]] in June 1940.  
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 +Wiggins was vacated in December 1987 in anticipation of a renovation, but plans were stalled due to cost (over $1 million) for the small building. It was also estimated that, once it was vacant, that students had caused over $51,000 in vandalism damage. ((Trinity Tripod, 03/08/1988)) 
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 +The dormitory was demolished in 2013-2014 to make space for the new [[crescent_street_townhouses|Crescent Street Townhouses]] and surface parking. 
  
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-[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/2/|Trinity College in the Twentieth Century]] (2000) by Peter Anne Knapp, p. 73.+[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.30257717|Trinity Tripod]], 09/10/2013. 
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 +[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/reporter/404/|Trinity Reporter]] (Fall 2013), p. 16. 
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 +[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/2/|Trinity College in the Twentieth Century]] (2000) by Peter and Anne Knapp, p. 73.
  
 [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/handbook/51/|Trinity College Handbook, 1989-90]] (1989), p. 9. [[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/handbook/51/|Trinity College Handbook, 1989-90]] (1989), p. 9.
  
-[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2208&context=tripod|Trinity Tripod]], 05/11/1982.+[[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.29938065|Trinity Tripod]], 05/11/1982
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 +[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/526/|Trinity College Bulletin, 1940-41 (The Chapel of Trinity College)]] (1941), p. 4.
  
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