Inner Quadrangle - Stanford, California - American Guide Series on Waymarking.com

The Inner Quadrangle at Stanford University probably looks today pretty much like it did in the 1940 days of the WPA Guide. The original architecture remains the same or has been restored after earthquake damages.

The San Francisco Guide say of the Quadrangle:

Heart of the campus is the group of buildings known as the OUTER QUADRANGLE (length 894, width 760 feet). At the northern end of the enclosure formed by fourteen buildings housing lecture halls and administrative offices with open arcades on the outside, stand the Administration Building and Jordan Hall. Between the two a passage leads to the INNER QUADRANGLE, formed by twelve one-story buildings and the Memorial Church – all connected by a continuous arcade. The red tile roof, the open arches, the long colonnades resembling cloister walks are reminiscent of the California Mmissions, but the work in its essential features is Romanesque, the architect – Charles Allerton Coolidge of Boston – having been a disciple of Richardson. The buff sandstone of rough-faced ashlar used in these, the first buildings to be erected, came from a quarry twelve miles south of San Jose. Both architecturally and academically the two quads are the heart of the university. In addition to the original group of buildings there are many newer buildings on streets radiating from here.

The Inner Quadrangle can be seen in Google Street View.

Book: San Francisco Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 473 Year Originally Published: 1940

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