<p>for anyone with interests in architecture & colleges, this is an interesting resource:</p>
<p>mostly smaller LACs</p>
<p>Neat link!</p>
<p>It is interesting to look at places by time period. I had no idea so many of these colleges pre-date the civil war. Just take a look at the time period 1800-1850. For instance, Allegheny's first building dates back to 1820. Take that, westerners.</p>
<p>try the search by architect......</p>
<p>I hadn't realized that Frank Lloyd Wright designed so many Florida Southern College buildings.</p>
<p>Kind of an odd assortment of schools. Barnard College is listed, but Columbia University (with its great collection of historic McKim, Mead & White buildings, among others) isn't.</p>
<p>It's a neat idea.</p>
<p>another interesting one....a Sir Christopher Wren building (circa 1600's) reconstructed at Westminster College in Missouri:
<a href="http://puka.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/cic/library?a=d&d=p1948%5B/url%5D">http://puka.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/cic/library?a=d&d=p1948</a></p>
<p>Roger, I too noticed the conspicuous absence of some of the ivies and larger institutions...don't know why they are not included.</p>
<p>In terms of which schools are in this group, read the 3rd to last sentence of paragraph 2 of the following. It is from their site's ABOUT page:</p>
<p>Project Background
In recent years, the study of campus history has received increasing interest in and attention by many sectors of the educational community. Institutions are working to understand more completely their physical environments and how these relate to educational mission, as well as wider historical trends. The CIC HCAP survey data and website have been developed to help various constituencies gain an awareness of and appreciation for campus history and also to learn from the architecture and landscape preservation efforts made by institutions.</p>
<p>Between 2002 and 2006, the CIC HCAP was supported by two generous grants from the Campus Heritage Initiative of the Getty Foundation. From 2002-2004, CIC developed a survey to collect information about places of significant historical interest (in relation to architecture, landscape, American history, and the histories of education, religion, engineering, and culture) identified by representatives of institutions themselves. This survey was distributed among 724 independent, four-year, B.A.-granting institutions with less than 5,000 students. Nearly 50 percent of this original group participated in the project. In 2005, CIC began website development with a second two-year grant from the Getty Foundation.</p>
<p>The CIC HCAP was guided by an advisory committee and developed by the coordinated efforts of a team of people from HCAP, CIC, and several independent professionals with whom HCAP contracted for specific services.</p>
<p>learn something new every day....</p>
<p>Olmsted, known as the founder of modern landscape architecture & most famous for his role in designing NYC's Central Park, also had his hand in designing campus', namely Berea, Denison, & Bryn Mawr:
<a href="http://puka.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/cic/library?a=d&d=d131%5B/url%5D">http://puka.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/cic/library?a=d&d=d131</a></p>
<p>I believe he also planned Stanford, but that info is not in the linked database.</p>
<p>Thank you Papa Chicken! No wonder Denison's campus is so pretty! I never knew about that.</p>
<p>The Olmsted Brothers also designed the Seattle Park system including the Washington Park Arboreteum and the Alaska-Pacific-Yukon exposistion in 1909 which dictated the campus of the University of Washington
John Olmsted was the firm's principal designer in Seattle and laid out a 20-mile-long system of interconnected parkways that linked parks and playfields, greenways, and natural lakes and waterways.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Olmsted%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Olmsted</a></p>
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Academic campuses designed by Olmsted and sons</p>
<p>Between 1857 and 1950, Olmsted and his successors designed 355 school and college campuses. Some of the most famous are listed here.
American University Main Campus, Washington, DC
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (1895-1927)
Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (1867-73)
Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. (1866)
Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts
Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania
Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1925-31)
Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania (1925-32)
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (1903-19)
Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey (1883-1901)
Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York
Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts (1901)
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Rhode Island Agricultural College (The University of Rhode Island), Kingston, Rhode Island (1894-1903)
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (1891-1909)
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (1886-1914)
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (1872-94)
College of California, Berkeley, California (1865)
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1901-1910)
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana (1929-32)
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (1902-20)
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (1896-1932)
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (1865-99)
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (1902-12)
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (1874-81)
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