University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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President Draper renamed the beautiful Boneyard Silver Creek. McKim im, Mead, and White designed the English Building.

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• v,?- ttw tt™ ?w Altgeld Hall was completed in 1896. World War I Allows Time for Campus Planning A planning commission was appointed in 1909 in anticipation of a million dollar building pro- gram. Even though the full amount was never appropriated, the planning commission went ahead with its work. The body could not, how- ever, come up with a master plan for the campus. It later agreed that the north-south axis should run through the Auditorium. The farms and ag- ricultural plots were to be located south of the Auditorium, and the military and athletic facil- ities were to expand in the newly acquired land to the west. The First World War stopped building and allowed a fortunate pause in planning. Guiding the University's campus growth after the war was architect Charles A. Piatt. His basic plan for the campus was similar to that adopted be- fore the war. Piatt, however, did make one no- ticeable decision— to use the American Georgian style of architecture for Mumford Hall, David Kinley Hall, and other buildings. fuffiM mAW M) v« — For many years Hallway House stood on Green Street in front of University Hall. 23

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Feverish building in 1946 provided housing for returning veterans and their families at Stadium Terrace. The Broadwalk in 1932 was a beautiful addition to the campus with its stately elms forming an archway. 25