Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-13
COLLEGE BUILDINGS.
Recent Improvement in Architecture
Structures Devoted to Education.

Recent Improvement in Architecture
Structures Devoted to Education.
From the Forum.
In educational architecture the tendency
becomes more marked each year to con-
slider not merely the individual structure.
but the group. Colleges and universities
which have grown up in the haphazard
American fashion. with ill-assorted build
ings of various styles and colors grouped
In hit-or-miss way around a green or
campus" have begun or are now begin
ming to study plans for a symmetrical and
harmonious architectural development.
Washington University in st. Louis has oc-
cupied the new buildings erected just be-
fore the Louisiana Purchase exposition. as
part of the extensive and picturesque
scheme planned by those gifted architects,
the lamented Edward Cope and John Stew
ardson. These stone buildings In that
adaptation of the English collegiate Gothic
style which the same architects used so
successfully in Blair Hall at Princeton.
Princeton University is about to erect a
new recitation hall, in memory Of Presi-
dent McCosh, from plans by Mr.. Raleigh
Gildersleeve; and this is to form one side
of a new quadrangle in the rear of the
Marquand Chapel, which VIII be the CEN
trail feature of its western side. This quad
rangle Will be in the English collegiate
STYLE and thus with the new dormitory
recently Du1lt from plans by MT. Is. w.
Morris. jr., and with the new gymnasium
and Blair Hall. all in the same general
style, and the library, which is of stone in
a slightly different version of late English
Gothic design. a certain architectural har-
mony will in time dominate the once hetero-
geneous assortment of buildings in that
most beautiful of American university
towns.
The imposing group of Gothic buildings
projected for West Point Grain. Goodhue
and EprgnSSou( is another illustration OF
the serious study of the problem of artistic
harmony and monumental grouping. though
its realization is still In the future. The
new buildings of the City College in New
York-another Gothic group in gray stone
and white terra Gotta George b. POST
constitute another notable work of striking
originality and vigor of design. In the south
the rebuilding and enlargement of the Uni
versity of Virginia-the earliest example.
by the way, of a fundamentally planned
university group in this country-and the
measures taken by the University of the
South to secure comprehensive plan for
future building, are evidences OF the spread
of this new conception of architectural
propriety. Amherst College has meanwhile
placed the future development of Its beau-
tiful grounds and buildings In the hands
of special committee of experts, among
whom are Mr. c. f. McISim and Mr.. Daniel
Burnham-
The Gothicists. however. are not in con-
troll of all the universities: and Columbia.
be diverted from the path of a more clas-
steal development The Morningside heights
are at present scene of great activity,
and the students of the school of architec-
ture of Columbia University have about
them object lessons in modern construc-
ton which should be of great practical
value. Two great dormitories (McKim.
Mead & White). a noble chapel from plans
by Howells and Stokes. and building for
the School of Mines. by A w. Drummer.
are now in process of erection. and ground
has been broken for the much-needed build
ing for the college. All these are OF the
most solid and thorough construction, and
carry perceptibly toward realization the
great plan densemble of the architects for
the whole university group. Plans have
been drawn, though not yet finally adopted
in detail, for the Barnard College group.
to be erected on the property given to the
college a year or two ago, south OF the
present building and adjoining Columbia
University on the west. Union Theological
Seminary is about to build close to Bar
nard on Claremont avenue. and thus a most
extensive and imposing group of education
al buildings will soon cover a large part
of the historic battlefield of Harlem
Heights.