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line of a court or avenue 2oo feet wide. with a central lawn, extending from Mechanical Engineering liall to High Street. A Million Dollar Library Eighth, a cross axis line is assumed perpendicular to High Street and ex- tending westerly from the intersection of the center lines of 15th Avenue and High Street to Neil Road. Upon this axis would be, substantially as at present, the main entrance to the central campus. There should be imposing working buildings symmetrically disposed north and south of this entrance, preferably facing High Street, but with wings extending westerly, and it would produce a striking architectural effect to connect these wings by a north and south build- ing with a great archway over the entrance drive and walks. it is proposed to have the future monumental Library with its center, on this same axis line, but at the other end of the central lawn and facing east. lt may be set so its east front will be a little West of the line of the west end of University llall, or its center may be on the axis line of University llall. The former would encroach much less on the central lawn but would block the continuation of the building front line which is proposed to pass along the west end of University Hall. The library is the building of a State University which should be the most dignified in location and architectural design. The Low Library of Columbia University exemplifies this idea. lt is not only the center of the main group of buildings, the most symmetrical, the most ornamented with large classic archi- tectural features, but it is doubtless the most expensive building of all, as it is said to have cost more than fiil.OO0.000. XYe believe completely in this general idea that the Library should be the central dominating architectural feature of the whole group of central buildings: but we do not think the time has come for the erection of the great future Library at Ohio State, because it is extremely improbable that the legislature will make a sufficiently large appropriation for a Library which both in size and dignity of architecture and material would ade- quately dominate all the buildings about it. Tenth, a short cross axis line is assumed perpendicular to lligh Street a little south from the intersection of the center lines of 14th Avenue and High Street. Upon this axis line it is proposed to place a great drill hall. For that purpose the site would be convenient for the outside public forming an audience and it is thought that the drill tloor of such a hall could be of asphalt on the surface of the low ground and that such a hall could be set low so as to save filling except in front. This layout can be tied together eventually by three straight north-south roads, in addition to the straight lligh Street. One of these straight roads will be on 'the axis line which is west of Page Hall and the Gymnasium and east of liiology Hall and Hayes llall. l'art of another straight road can be located east of Chemistry ilall and run northward. and another part of the same road can be located east of Orton Hall and run southward. Part of 20
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another road can be located west of Chemistry Hall and run northward, and another part of the same road can be located west of Orton Hall and run south- ward. These parts, while they may remain disconnected for a long time, in order to put off the time when the central lawn must be cut to pieces by roads and walks required for the constantly increasing traffic, must eventually be completed and will then serve to visibly connect in design the formal layout north of the central lawn, with that south of it. Style of Architecture The question of exterior materials for future buildings and of what archi- tectural style should be followed in designing them, is an interesting one, but space will not permit an adequate treatment of the subject. Harmony in appearance of the buildings of a group, is the most funda- mental requirement of art, and at the same time, the easiest and cheapest to secure. It is therefore astonishing that Ohio State University, in common with most of the others, persistently refuses to compel its architects to secure har- mony. No one architect would have dared to ignore harmony, if he had de- signed at one time, the eleven buildings surrounding and facing the central lawn. but the architect of each one of these buildings, apparently insisted upon design- ing it out of harmony with most of the other buildings of the group, in texture and color of exterior material and style of architecture. The existing buildings are such that the safest policy is to use a hard rough cherry red brick with stone trimmings for exteriors of additional buildings, and to design them in a simple unobtrusive classic style, avoiding great two- story porticoes and other brobdignagian features that would unduly accent dif- ferences in style between buildings. lint whatever the architectural style of the buildings, a free use of vines upon them will do much toward harmonizing them into one pleasing landscape. Ion N C. OLMSTED. 21
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