Wiggins Dormitory

Photo Credit: Trinity Tripod, January 20, 1987.

Wiggins was a student dormitory located at 76 Crescent Street, which contained twenty beds and a mentor's apartment. It was part of the “Crescent Village” which included Frohman-Robb as well as Little Dormitory.

In 1982, Wiggins was named in honor of John Gregory Wiggins, of Pomfret, CT, who created the wood carvings on the pews in the Trinity College Chapel. For his work on the Chapel, the College presented Wiggins with an honorary Master of Arts degree in June 1940.

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. ¹⁾

The dormitory was demolished in 2013-2014 to make space for the new Crescent Street Townhouses and surface parking.

Trinity Tripod, 09/10/2013.

Trinity Reporter (Fall 2013), p. 16.

Trinity College in the Twentieth Century (2000) by Peter and Anne Knapp, p. 73.

Trinity College Handbook, 1989-90 (1989), p. 9.

Trinity Tripod, 05/11/1982.

Trinity College Bulletin, 1940-41 (The Chapel of Trinity College) (1941), p. 4.