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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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202 Appendix B just where they are and grow towards the east. I assume that the present main building will be given up in time, and you will see that I have indicated a campus extending from the front of the Auditorium to a corresponding building on the side towards Green Street, and the whole space around this campus could be given to the Liberal Arts. At the south of the Auditorium I have assumed a second campus, or field, with the Natural Sciences grouped to the east, the Graduate School grouped to the west, and the Agricultural Department located at the south where there is plenty of room for extending and where an imposing building could be put up stopping the vista of Burrill Avenue without interfering with what you have now. I have assumed also that dormitories would naturally spring up on each side of the east and west extensions of the present field. Burrill Avenue troubles me. It is too narrow to be a good street, and with all respect to Mr. Olmsted's judgment I still think it ought to have been abandoned when we placed the Auditorium, or at least set further to the west. There is one rather simple way, however, of getting out of the difficulty and that is to make it a double driveway with a row of trees down the center. This would retain the present two rows of trees and would simply add another row to the west and give you at the same time a wide, north to south driveway connecting all.the departments, and crossing a similar east and west driveway leading from the Administration Department. I t seems to me the question of the exact size of the buildings is not of a great deal of moment at the present but the chief consideration is to group the different departments in such manner that they can naturally grow without interfering with or congesting the present buildings. I offer this only as a suggestion of a possible solution. With kindest regards, Yours very truly, : v' C. H. BLACKALL Professor James M. White, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
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