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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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12 History of Campus Plan One immediate effect of the move was not altogether fortunate. The tract south of Green Street the Horticultural Department had just taken over as its experimental area, and "the location of the new University Building in the midst of the garden brought to an untimely end the experiments attempted with many garden and nursery plants." The activities of this department now had to be carried farther to the south. The loss brought about by this shift, though comparatively insignificant, thus early showed the need of far-sighted allotment of space, and pointed a moral which has not yet lost its force. The determination of the site for University Hall marked the beginning of a new interest in what is now the main campus. The Regent in March, 1872, reports: A beautiful plan for our Arboretum and ornamental grounds about the new building has been prepared by our teacher of Architectural Drawing, and the plantation of trees will be commenced as soon as the weather will permit. The green houses and grounds about this building have been objects of increasing interest, and are of great value in teaching the finer parts of Horticultural Art. This plan, now valuable because it is the only one of the early suggestions for the development of the campus that has survived, hangs in the Office of the Supervising Architect and affords an interesting study of the art of landscape designing of the early seventies. The new University Hall is shown surrounded by an informal park with sinuous walks and drives and clumps of trees and shrubs. Green Street as it passes through the campus is widened to a double street with a boulevard treatment. The area north of Green Street is an arboretum, with the Boneyard west of Burrill Avenue expanded into a pond. This scheme was generally accepted as the ultimate arrangement, and work toward its development was started at once. As no one was made definitely responsible for carrying out the plan, however, the work lacked effective direction; absence of funds, furthermore, handicapped progress, and before much had been done, need of new building sites forced radical changes in the scheme.
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