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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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II PROFESSOR N. C. RICKER TO PROFESSOR JAMES M. WHITE, SUPERVISING ARCHITECT, JANUARY 10, 1910 This letter from Professor Ricker, then head of the Department of Architecture, followed shortly after the first presentation of the White Plan of 1909 (Plate 8). University, January 10, 1910 (A copy of this letter has been sent to the President for his information.) Professor James M. tVhite> Supervising Architect DEAR FRIEND: In accordance with a request made at the faculty assembly on Saturday evening last, I desire to present the following scheme for your consideration. 1. The different plans for an improved lay-out and for harmonizing the buildings and grounds of this University, that have been prepared, are based on the general scheme of necessarily retaining the existing buildings for a time, gradually replacing them by new and improved structures as may be found possible, as well as the erection of new and larger buildings on the present campus. 2. All these plans make clearly apparent the impossibility of harmonizing existing and new buildings, the insufficient width of the University campus, and the necessity of the purchase of adjacent land at exorbitant prices. The final result would always continue to be a patchwork and a layout that never would have been planned originally, and one that will never be satisfactory for the chief university of a leading state like Illinois. 3. Therefore I earnestly recommend that a bold step be taken in advance, to do exactly what should have been done, when University Hall was placed in its present location as a bad compromise between a site on Illinois Field and one on the south farm, on which the Board of Trustees were tied at the time of that decision. 4. That the idea of harmonizing new structures with these now existing be now abandoned, as well as that of erecting any new buildings on the University Campus north of the Auditorium, except for temporary purposes. 192
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