Harlan Hall - Quadrangle, from 1940s wing addition
Title
Harlan Hall - Quadrangle, from 1940s wing addition
Subject
Harlan Hall - Exterior
Description
The two front and side entrances are shown of Harlan Hall, as well as the sidewalk leading towards them.
This picture was taken in November of 1959.
The post-World War II wing additions honored the Tudor style of the original 1908 building, though unlike such collegiate gothic quadrangles at the U. of Chicago, axial pathways through buildings, as at the center entry here into the building, did not follow earlier Beaux-Arts precedent. The path does not go through the building to Commons.
"While such Beaux Arts designs are usually carried out with buildings in neo-classical architectural styles, Charles Frost and Alfred Granger (already the architects of the chapel and library next door, as well as of Lois Hall on North Campus) cast their anglophile architectural vocabulary over the buildings envisioned in the Morris Plan. The architectural precedents for Blackstone and Harlan are the Tudor-era college buildings at Cambridge and Oxford Universities. This red brick Tudor style, enlivened with decorative gables and limestone finials on the roof-line, is purposefully less formal than the Collegiate Gothic chapel next door. Blackstone and Harlan both feature Frost & Granger's distinctive brick balustrades, also found on Carnegie. President Richard Harlan's intent in building these men's dormitories was to entice fraternities to move from their off-campus houses onto campus, creating a stronger college community. The College newspaper in 1908 touted both the electric lighting and the oak-paneled lounges of the new dorms, which were the last word in technology and luxury. The first occupants of Harland Hall were the brothers of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity; Blackstone boarded the brothers of the Phi Pi Epsilon" (Neal Van Winkle on Blackstone and Harlan Halls in "Lake Forest College, A Guide to the Campus," 2007, pp. 49-50).
This picture was taken in November of 1959.
The post-World War II wing additions honored the Tudor style of the original 1908 building, though unlike such collegiate gothic quadrangles at the U. of Chicago, axial pathways through buildings, as at the center entry here into the building, did not follow earlier Beaux-Arts precedent. The path does not go through the building to Commons.
"While such Beaux Arts designs are usually carried out with buildings in neo-classical architectural styles, Charles Frost and Alfred Granger (already the architects of the chapel and library next door, as well as of Lois Hall on North Campus) cast their anglophile architectural vocabulary over the buildings envisioned in the Morris Plan. The architectural precedents for Blackstone and Harlan are the Tudor-era college buildings at Cambridge and Oxford Universities. This red brick Tudor style, enlivened with decorative gables and limestone finials on the roof-line, is purposefully less formal than the Collegiate Gothic chapel next door. Blackstone and Harlan both feature Frost & Granger's distinctive brick balustrades, also found on Carnegie. President Richard Harlan's intent in building these men's dormitories was to entice fraternities to move from their off-campus houses onto campus, creating a stronger college community. The College newspaper in 1908 touted both the electric lighting and the oak-paneled lounges of the new dorms, which were the last word in technology and luxury. The first occupants of Harland Hall were the brothers of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity; Blackstone boarded the brothers of the Phi Pi Epsilon" (Neal Van Winkle on Blackstone and Harlan Halls in "Lake Forest College, A Guide to the Campus," 2007, pp. 49-50).
Date
1959 - 11
Rights
Format
still image
Type
TIFF
Identifier
BLDG 1.18.2.1
Resolution
228 pixels per inch
Dimensions
4000 × 3922 pixels
Original Format
photograph
Physical Dimensions
8.9 x 8.9 cm (3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in)
