Roble Hall - Stanford, California - American Guide Series on Waymarking.com

…where the main side route turns L. on Lomita Drive; straight ahead from this junction on Santa Teresa Street to the two principal women's dormitories: ROBLE HALL, a large vine-covered building, and LAGUNITA COURT, a group of houses set among lawns and trees.

Today this building, with its ivy-covered sides, is still in use as a dormitory, while Laguna Court has been torn down and being rebuilt (2016).

Wikipedia gives the following history:

Roble Hall was designed by architect George Kelham. It was considered an architectural jewel of the Beaux-Arts architecture movement. It is three stories high and is built in the shape of an H, with A, B, and Center wings, along with a semi-attached C wing which was added later. Built as a women's dormitory, and later used exclusively for freshmen women, it was converted to a co-ed residence in 1968. Now housing approximately 310 students, it is the largest dormitory at Stanford housing all four classes. About half the residents are freshmen and half sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

The residence underwent an extensive seismic retrofit in 1987-1988, reopening in September 1989, just weeks before the Loma Prieta earthquake, which it survived without damage. Additional retrofitting was performed during the summers of 2006 and 2007.

The original residence for Stanford women was a different building, also named Roble Hall. It was built in haste in 1891 to house the 80 women of the first Stanford undergraduate class. Designed by concrete pioneer Ernest L. Ransome, it survived the 1906 earthquake but was replaced as the women's dormitory by the current Roble Hall in 1918. The original Roble was renamed Sequoia Hall, used as a men’s dormitory until 1957, and demolished in 1996 to make room for the Science and Engineering Quad.