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Caption: Book - 100 Years of Campus Architecture (Allen Weller)
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The English Building was built originally as the "Woman's Building." In its most important elements, the building is the work of McKim, Mead and White, which was at that time (1905) probably the most celebrated architectural firm in the United States. The English Building, with its central colonnade, twin-pedimented towers with low domes, dormer windows, and richly developed detail, is the high-water mark of the classic phase of University architecture. The building was added to in several directions and its functions changed over the years; it remains, in many ways, a puzzling complex which carries certain exterior characteristics into the interior of the building. The long front of the building, however, remains a stately element along the principal mall of the University.
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