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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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VIII LETTERS RELATIVE TO THE PLATT PLAN 1922 September 20, 1922 President David Kinky $ J55 Administration Building Mv DEAR DR. KINLEY: I have received from Mr. Charles A. Piatt a copy of his letter of September 12th to Mr. Abbott with reference to his progress on our campus plan. I am enclosing Mr. Piatt's letter and the accompanying drawing to which it refers. In developing this plan, Mr. Piatt has accepted the campus meridian as laid out by Mr. Olmstead in 1906 and the subdivision into general areas recommended by the 1912 commission. The parade ground remains unchanged together with the avenues to the north and south of it, but the axis of the east and west mall has been moved south twenty feet, throwing it slightly off the axis of the parade ground. Mr. Piatt's great contribution has been the working out of the area extending eastward from Sixth Street to Mathews Avenue and from the Auditorium extending southward to the Cemetery. The proposed buildings within this area cover about twentyfive percent of the ground area, but are so distributed as to avoid monotony and to introduce the greatest possible variety into the avenues separating the buildings and to reduce the roadways to the minimum. You will note from the blue print that there are no roadways extending north and south between Goodwin Avenue and Sixth Street. In order to make the plan comprehensive, Mr. Piatt has had to show a number of details which he has not sufficiently studied and upon which he is not yet ready to make recommendations, but he does request that the west walk be laid out and planted, and that Goodwin Avenue be extended through into the campus. I should also like to see the east walk opened up and planted as far as possible, though the north end cannot be laid out now because of interference with the Morrow Experimental Plots. I think, for the present, we need only extend Goodwin Avenue to the avenue on the south border of the Agricultural plots rather than to the avenue in front of the greenhouses as he suggests. While there are advantages in closing Mathews Avenue, I hardly think we are ready to act upon that recommendation at this time. I hope that Mr. Piatt's specific recommendations may receive immediate consideration and that he will be instructed to make further 213
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