Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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' W ' M. aW- 1 1 ¥ tiJA ' fHt.fi 2 ' ' fy- ' t . i ' j:;C J 9SiTTX9 » »-. ' - (. (t iM ri.l ' .Th 1 ' KKSITiKNfE THE PRESIDENTIAL MANSION STANFOED presidents are to liave tlic siglitliest position on the campus for a home when the new mansion, to cost more than one hundred thousand dollars, is ( ' omjileted. The new structure is already under way, and it is hoped that it will be finished by the opening of the ( )etober semester. This fine three-story building, overlooking Lagunita on the one side and the rest of the camjjus from other ])oints of view, will be moi-e than the home of the president. It is to be the rect ' p- tion center of the University. The large hall will be the connnon meeting ground of the returning Alumni, the Faculty, and the Student I ody in a social way, and )iy reason of new facilities in it Stanford will be able to entertain distinguished visitors properly. The presidential mansion will be a three-story structure in Spanish Gothic style in general, surrounded by a beautiful garden. It was designed in- Louis C. IMullgardt of San Fi-ancisco. The building will face the center (piad and is on a direct line with Palm Avenue and the Memorial Church, it will have two wings, in addition to the central building. [•27]

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THE NEW ADDITIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY Stanford ' s iifw lialf-iiiillioii ddllar lihrary is diauging from a dream to the real thing. With funds with which to huild it already api ropriated by the Board of Trustees, with plans for the fine new structure completed in the offices of Bakewell lie Brown, the San Francisco architects, and with part of the Imild- iug eciuipment of tlie P. J. ' alker Company now on the grounds, the early completion of the new library is assured. The new library, a long-felt need since the former one was shaken down in 19l)() l)y the eartlKpiake befoi-e books could be moved into it, will l)e the first i;nit in Stanford ' s second quadrangle. The final building scheme includes three quads. The new library will face the old quadrangle, but will set back over one hundred feet from the outer line of the new (|uad . Colonnades will connect it with the rest of the buildings of this section of ai-chitectnre. This principal building of the east tpiad will be entered by steps from a court in front of it. It will lie a higher structure than its inanediate neighbors, for convenience sake. Entering the front door will bring one to the second floor. After passing through a loggia one comes to the main lobby, from which a stair- way leads to the delivery room, the main study room, part of the stacks, some of the staff rooms, and the |)eriodical rooms. Stanford ' s liln ' ary will be second to none in American colleges in ])oint of comfort and conveniences. With the main features closely connected near the lobby, and the sujiply i-ooms less used, reference stacks on the main or ground floor, and with special seminar and study rooms on a third floor, everything will be nearlv ideal for a nniversitv. I ' LAXS FOK THE OliMI ' I.KTKD f X 1 VKRSIT V FEATVRIXf; THK LIBRARY IN THE LEFT QrADKAXiiLK Permission Bakewell Brown, Architects [■2G

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THE STANFORD HOSPITAL A X IDEAL surgical hospital with l)etter facilities for advauce- inciit of science and for ai mmodation of the public is -% what is aimed at in the new Stanford Hospital, now nearing -L - completion. The hospital is being built l)y the University at a cost of half a million dollars. It becomes the hospital of the University, while old Lane Hospital will continue as a clinic. Bakewell Brown designed the new hospital, which forms a complete surgical unit, with operating rooms and their accessories and wards and private rooms. The Stanford Hospital is being erected by George Wagner, the San Francisco contractor. The new building, situated near the old Lane Hospital in San Francisco, has a T-shaped plan. This gives the greatest amount of air and light jjossible for the lot, and enables placing all service rooms and operating rooms on the north exposure, with wards and jirivate rooms for patients on the south, where they will get the maximum of sunlight. The ground and first floors are practically all devoted to other uses than tliose of patients. On the front wing of the ground floor are the staff ' s olhces and examination rooms. In the reai- of this floor are the X-ray photo- graphic, Zander special exer- cises, and elec- trical rooms for treatment of liaticnts. The internes of the Univer- sity and the su| erinten(l( ' nt have their head- (piarters on the first floor front wing. Here also is an overflow FRONT KLK ATH). UL.L) LANK Hu.sl ' l . ' AI. IN THK liAtK(iK(H Nl)