Blackstone and Harlan Halls, side entrances next to the Gatesr
Title
Blackstone and Harlan Halls, side entrances next to the Gatesr
Subject
Blackstone and Halran Halls - Exterior
Description
The ramp, for disabled access on the left, leads to the side door of Blackstone Hall. Also shown in this November 1982 image are the iron gates into North Campus in between both Blackstone and Harlan Halls, and a side entry into Harlan Hall's three-storey tower. The accessible wheelchair ramp is shown eight years prior to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, when such accommodations were made mandatory.
The two residence halls for men designed by Frost & Granger and in 1907-08 were part of an elemental plan, a typical Beaux Arts parti of separate but related structures. In this case, three-storey towers faced each other at this entry to the campus from the south, the locations of Lake Forest Academy (now South Campus) and Farwell Field, the athletics playing venue. The College and Academy then were both parts of Lake Forest University, and a 1906 plan by Benjamin Wistar Morris, a New York architect, had tried to rationalize the relationships of the various campuses with axial connections, one through this gate to the Academy main hall.
"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. The wrought iron gate, formerly called Fraternity Gate, has never served a practical purpose, but extended the College's symbolic welcome to the students of Lake Forest Academy, then situated on South Campus. Although Harlan had resigned the presidency by the time the dormitories were comopleted, one was named for him at the insistence of Isabella Norton Blackstone, these buildings' principal benefactor. The widow of Timothy Blackstone, who made his fortune in the Chicago stockyards, Mrs. Blackstone in this era also donated the Blackstone Library in Hyde Park, the first neighborhood branch of the Chicago Public Library" (Neal Van Winkle on Blackstone and Harlan Halls in "Lake Forest College, A Guide to the Campus," 2007, pp. 49-50).
The two residence halls for men designed by Frost & Granger and in 1907-08 were part of an elemental plan, a typical Beaux Arts parti of separate but related structures. In this case, three-storey towers faced each other at this entry to the campus from the south, the locations of Lake Forest Academy (now South Campus) and Farwell Field, the athletics playing venue. The College and Academy then were both parts of Lake Forest University, and a 1906 plan by Benjamin Wistar Morris, a New York architect, had tried to rationalize the relationships of the various campuses with axial connections, one through this gate to the Academy main hall.
"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. The wrought iron gate, formerly called Fraternity Gate, has never served a practical purpose, but extended the College's symbolic welcome to the students of Lake Forest Academy, then situated on South Campus. Although Harlan had resigned the presidency by the time the dormitories were comopleted, one was named for him at the insistence of Isabella Norton Blackstone, these buildings' principal benefactor. The widow of Timothy Blackstone, who made his fortune in the Chicago stockyards, Mrs. Blackstone in this era also donated the Blackstone Library in Hyde Park, the first neighborhood branch of the Chicago Public Library" (Neal Van Winkle on Blackstone and Harlan Halls in "Lake Forest College, A Guide to the Campus," 2007, pp. 49-50).
Creator
Adam Klingher '83
Date
1982 - 11
Rights
Format
still image
Type
TIFF
Identifier
BLDG 1.18.2.4
Resolution
228 pixels per inch
Dimensions
2912 × 4000 pixels
Original Format
photograph
Physical Dimensions
17.7 x 12.6 cm (7 x 5 in)
