Jacob Oster is a Covenant College freshman studying English writing, but he is better known as the creator of our newly beloved Lego Carter Hall creation. The Lego Carter Hall can be found right now in the Tucke Shoppe until family weekend later this month.
Lego Carter tower constructed by Jacob Oster ‘27. Photo taken by Lily Howe (‘26)
Oster has been creating things out of legos “since I was old enough to create things out of Legos,” and he completely free-built Covenant College’s oldest building: Carter Hall was built in 1928. Almost 100 years later, the first ever Lego recreation of the building appears.
Oster does not want to sell his creation. He fully intends on keeping it in his room for the following academic year. On the inside of the building is “scenes from last semester from my hall. On the back, I have Carter Christmas, where we did pirate-themed Christmas. I also have a scene from when my hall, Borderlands, did hall pictures,” Oster said.
Oster added, “I actually planned a lot in the beginning; I drew out what I wanted to build after I had already built the base because I needed to figure out how many windows and pieces I needed. I bought a lot of the bricks for the project and all of the window pieces.” However, the Lego creation is not to scale at all. The tower is a lot bigger. There are only 60 lego windows on the Lego creation, and there are far more windows on the actual building.
Lego Carter Hall has an open back that shows a lot of Oster’s favorite scenes from the last semester with his hall. “The three scenes in the building are from Carter Christmas, hall photos,” and an infamous incident in which a Covenant student rode the conveyor belt in the Great Hall.
Oster does not currently have any other plans for creating any other buildings, but he says that stance is subject to change.
Make sure to stop by the Tucke Shoppe before family weekend (Feb 23-24) and see this glorious masterpiece which took our own Jacob Oster a whole 20 hours to build over Christmas break!