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Appendix

B

studies and recommendations. If present action be limited to the specific recommendations made by Mr. Piatt, the closing of Burrill Avenue need not be settled at this time, but I am heartily in favor of paving the way so that it can be accomplished in the future if necessary. Very truly yours,

JAMES M. WHITE

Supervising Architect September 12, 1922

M Y DEAR M R . ABBOTT:

I expect to go abroad for a short trip, leaving here this week and returning about the 15th of November. As questions may arise during my absence on which you might wish my opinion, I have prepared a plan at a scale of 100 feet to the inch showing the main structure of the plan of the south campus which seems practically assured by decisions made by the Board to date. I send you under other cover a copy of this plan. Roads, Walks, and Trees: As the buildings will come slowly in the development of the south campus I hope that the main streets and walks may be built and trees planted as soon as possible and that the tree planting especially may be carried out wherever the grading can be adjusted to the new plan in order to place the trees where they should be in relation to the scheme. I would particularly like to see the trees on the walk which I have designated as the west walk, put in at the earliest possible moment so that when the time comes for eliminating Burrill Avenue south of the Auditorium there will be an avenue to take its place. Goodwin Avenue and Sixth Street would form the boundary of the area within which the new building program will take place and I advise the building of Goodwin Avenue immediately as far as the drive running east and west in front of the greenhouses. As soon as Goodwin Avenue is constructed I should advise the closing up of Mathews Avenue and carrying through Gregory Avenue to Goodwin Avenue. With Sixth Street carried through to Gregory a great deal of traffic would be removed from the present campus which I believe in every way to be desirable. Hospital Site: I looked carefully with Professor White into the question of the hospital site and the best and most available one seemed to be in the present Forestry Reservation, facing on Lincoln Avenue. As this building will possibly eventually compose a group, my suggestion is that the center face Indiana Avenue with the idea of confining the whole structure between Michigan Avenue and Ohio Avenue.