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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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IV C. H. BLACKALL TO PROFESSOR J. M. WHITE, J U N E 12, 1911 Mr, Blackall's letter accompanying the first plan which he made after the creation of the Campus Plan Commission. The letter is self-explanatory; it should be read in connection with the plate on page 55. June 12, 1911 C. //. Biackally Architect, Boston, Massachusetts DEAR MR. WHITE: RE: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS GROUNDS I am sending you herewith a plan which has suggested itself to me as perhaps a natural development of the University grounds and the extension thereof for future growth. This involves the purchase of additional property by the University, and it seems to me that is simply inevitable. I should recommend at once purchasing the tract between Romine> Mathews, Springfield Avenue and University Avenue, and devoting that space entirely to recreation courts with the supposition that dormitories would in time be erected by private ownership on Wright Street and Mathews Street facing the Athletic Field. I would also acquire just as much of the property between Springfield Avenue and Green Street east and west of the present property of the University as the funds will permit* If you do not want it all it can easily be rented, but if this land had been acquired twenty-five years ago it is easy to see how much better off the University would be today. I understand you already own a cross tract extending east and west from the recreation field south of the Auditorium,, and with the purchases I have indicated above I should think there would be ample opportunity to develop to a total membership in the University of twenty or twenty-five thousand. As you will see, I have assumed the Administration Buildings at the west end of the tract between Springfield and Green, with the Fine Arts immediately beyond that, and a Chapel on one side at the corner of Wright Street, and possibly the President's Official Mansion on the opposite side. This would leave the space between Burriil Avenue, Green, Wright, and Springfield Avenue free for a campus. The Engineering Groups could stay 201 >
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