The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-14
YALE'S MATERIAL GROWTH
W0NDERFUL PR0GRESS MADE Iy 4
 QUARTER OENTURY,

! CompIet1on Of the QuadranEle--Other Uni. l versity Bulldings-Men Who Have Bull,
 Modern Yaie-Plans for Additional Buildings.
 | At the Yale commencement exercises
 this year President Dwight in his off. | cialreportannounced that $150,O00 of the | large Lamson estate recently left to ! Yale had been set aside by MT. Lamson 1 for the erection of an alumni hall large
 enough for the requirements of the uni versity.
 Enlarging on the object for which the bequest was left, President Dwight l took occasion to say that the manage | ment of the university had in mind the erection of a large building containing
 a hall with a seating capacity of 5000
 or 4000, also a large dining hall in which the largely attended alumni din- ner could be held. Besides this the building would contain offices for the officials of the university. The build ing should be a worthy monument to the closing years of the second century since the foundation of Yale and would
 require from Ss50,0O0 to $450,0O0 for it's erection.
 The purpose to erect such a splendid building in the near future Is well worthy of the present university man. agement, which has witnessed the most | remarkable material growth in Yale's history.
 It is less than a year now since the quadrangle was completed by the erec- I tin of the handsome Phelps memorial l on College street.
 In a recent building supplement of the Yale Alumni Weekly is given an
 excellent resume of the building era in Yale and from 1t are gathered most | of the facts given below. The first of the newer buildings of | the quadrangle erected is the Farnam dormitory on College street, just south of Batte1l chapel. This is mainly the gift of MT Henry Farnam. It Is built l of brick with stone facings and gran 1 ite pillars at the three entrances. It contains fortynine rooms. Durfee hall on Elm street was erected
 In 1871 and at the time of it's erection was considered the finest college dor
 mitory in the country It was the gift of MT. Bradford M. c. Durfee. It Is constructed of New Jersey sandstone, with belts of Hudson river bluestone and red trimmings. It has five en- frances and contains forty suites of rooms.
 Battell chapel was dedicated In 1876
 and was built mainly of funds given by Mrs. Joseph Battell of New York city. It is built of rough New Jersey sand stone and surrounded by an arcade of Ohio sandstone. In 1893 an addition was made at a cost of about $27,000 and the chapel has now the largest seating capacity of any church in the city. Lawrence hall just south of F'arnam on College street. was the third addi- tion to the quadrangle and was com pleted in 1886 as a memorial to MT. Thomas c. Lawrence of the class of '84 by his mother. It is built of red brick with pillars of Vermont granite at each of the four entrances. It contains forty-two rooms, most of which are double.
 South of Lawrence is Phelps hall which was occupied for the first time the past year. It is used for recitations. It is of sandstone and is the most com
 manding building on the campus. It is memorial to William Water Phelps, a former member of the corporation. Welch hall the next building on Col
 lege street, is the gift of Pierce N. Welch of this city, a graduate of the
 class of 1862. The designs for 1t were
 made by Bruce Price, and 1t was com pleted in 1892.
 The material used is Longmeadow sandstone, carved in places, and trim med with granite. The interior finish
 of the building is very nice. There are twenty-six double and twenty-two sin- gle rooms in the building.
 Osborn hall Is noted for the uniaue-
 ness and beauty of It's construction, and is situated at the southeast corner of the quadrangle It was donated by
 Mrs. Miriana A. Osborn of New York city, in memory of her husband, the late Charles J. Osborn.
 It's material is Branford granite from
 Stony Creek, trimmed with Long Mead ow stone.
 There are twenty-four rooms in the
 building, two of them large lecture
 rooms with a seating capacity of 250
 each. The seating capacity of the en-
 tire building is nearly 1900.
 The fourteen granite columns sup porting the portico are especially beau
 tiful. The architect of the hall was
 Bruce Price, and the builders, the Nor
 cross Brothers.
 Vanderbilt hall Is the most costly of
 Yale buildings, and Is the gift of MT. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt in mem ory of their son, who died in his junior
 year at Yale.
 It is 8 splendid building, and money
 was not spared in it's construction. The
 architect of the building was MT.
 Charles c. Haight, who also designed
 the Phelps Memorial
 The Chittenden Memorial library and
 Dwight hall complete the buildings re-
 gently constructed upon the campus
 The Chittenden library is of red sand stone and is well lighted and fire proof.
 It is but part of a, larger library
 building to be built sometime in the fu-
 ture. The old library building Is de- signed from the town hall in Bradford, England, and with it's innumerable