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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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President Draper and Campus Progress 2$ Board. The Board selected a classical design and were preparing to go ahead with construction when the influence of Governor Altgeld, who had previously indicated his objection to the site selected and who now expressed disapproval of the design, caused a reversal of the former decision. Mr. Burnham immediately resigned as architect and the building was placed in the hands of Professors Ricker and White of the Department of Architecture, who produced the design which was carried out. The site, however, remained in question until June 19, 1896, nearly a year after the first decision in the matter, when the present location suggested by the Governor was accepted in lieu of that looking down Daniel Street. Additional building activities at this time occupied the attention of the administrative officers and Trustees. On recommendation of President Draper in his report of June 11, 1895, the present machine shops were authorized. In April of the following year, the committee on Buildings and Grounds requested assignment of a site for the new observatory, and its present location was sanctioned, making this small structure the only one of permanence south of Main Hall at that time. The buildings made possible by the legislative appropriations of 1895 seem to have been the first located from study of plans of existing buildings and improvements. This is manifest through the introduction of a motion, before sites of the above buildings had been determined, requesting the President "to have prepared a sketch plan of the University grounds so as to show the relative position of the buildings and walks." This initial impulse to employ plans in selecting building sites may perhaps be considered the precursor of those more comprehensive plans for campus development which were soon to appear. The problems of growth were yearly becoming more intricate. President Draper, soon after coming into office, felt a prevailing carelessness about the campus which he tried hard to correct. In 1895 he recommended that the Board of Trustees create the office of Superintendent of Buildings and
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