206 Maple Street North
Built in 2001
As its name would suggest, the Language and Dining Center (or LDC, as it’s always called) serves a dual purpose on campus. The ground floor hosts East Dining Hall, while the floors above are the home of Carleton’s many foreign language departments. It’s a great location to share, as most of the departments hold lunch tables focused on speaking practice at least once or twice a week in the dining hall.
During senior week in 2002, a group of students put up a sign seemingly renaming LDC “Dowds Dining Hall,” after Jonathan Dowds ’01, who worked in the college wood shop. The students meticulously copied the font and look of LDC’s real sign and found an adhesive they could use to safely affix their new one. Once it went up, the “Dowds Dining Hall” sign stayed in place for six months, and the name stuck long enough to be used in earnest by the Carletonian and on the college website!
Floor plans
For security purposes, building floorplans are only available to Carleton faculty, staff, and students :
Basement, Floor 0, Floor 1, Floor 2, Floor 3
Offices & Departments:
Archaeology
Asian Languages and Literatures
Asian Studies
Classics
Cross-Cultural Studies
French and Francophone Studies
German and Russian
Judaic Studies
The Language Center
Latin American Studies
Middle East Studies
Middle Eastern Languages
Spanish