The Wellesley College Enamel Box

Perfect as a gift for the new graduate or as a gift to yourself!

This small treasure measures 2 1/4" x 1 1/2". The price includes your personal inscription with name and class year.

Questions: info@chicagowellesleyclub.org

 "In every changing mood we love her,
Love her tow’rs and woods and lake. 
--  To Alma Mater

This item is being offered by: The Chicago Wellesley Club to benefit the Chicago Wellesley Club Scholarship Fund. (To read about the Scholarship Fund, please visit the Chicago Wellesley Club website.)

The box is hand-painted enamel over copper. The college seal is applied in 24K gold paint. The base is Wellesley blue. The detail is so fine, the paint is applied in some spots using a brush with only one hair. The design is so rich, it can be appreciated fully only under magnification

The artwork for this box was developed with faithful attention to detail of campus architecture and landscape using archival photographs, satellite images and other reference material. 

Our thanks to the Wellesley College Archives, Wellesley College Botanic Gardens and Office of the Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life for assisting our research.

These are the landmarks and other elements depicted:

* Galen-Stone Tower: Green Hall's massive tower is Wellesley‘s most symbolic building. Completed in 1931, it gave the campus a new focal point and shifted the landscape's center of gravity to Norumbega Hill. Its 32-bell carillon can be heard across campus.

* Houghton Memorial Chapel: Services from many religions are held at Houghton Memorial Chapel, designed by Heins and LaFarge and completed in 1899. 

* Tower Court: The Gothic-style dormitory complex that includes Claflin and Severance Halls rose from the ashes of College Hall, which was destroyed in Wellesley’s Great Fire of 1914.  

* Tupelo leaf cluster and Tupelo Point: Wellesley's Class of 1896 planted a tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) as its class tree on a spit of land jutting into Lake Waban.

* Lake Waban and Green Beach: Wellesley’s 100-acre lake and small sand beach are among the most tranquil spots on campus. 

* Crew shell: Rowing has been a Wellesley tradition since the fall of 1875. Wellesley was the first college in the country to establish a women's crew team.  

* ‘Fiddlehead’ Lamppost:  Introduced circa 1926, Wellesley’s distinctive lampposts are perhaps second only to Galen-Stone Tower as the campus’ most recognized image.