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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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44 History of Campus Plan the building, which in my judgment are quite essential to the ultimate completion of the general effect. This work has never been included in any contract, on account of the limited appropriation at your command. Temporary grading can at slight expense make the surroundings fairly presentable, but I trust your board will not he satisfied with anything short of the ultimate completion of the entire scheme of approaches as shown by me in the preliminary studies presented to your board, including the balustrade work, the broad steps leading down onto the lawn, and in the center the pedestal and statue of "Alma Mater welcoming her sons and daughters." The use of a commission in locating buildings on the campus was obviously quite successful, and when the legislature in 1907 indicated its disposition to appropriate money for a new Physics Laboratory, the Board directed its president to appoint a commission, similar to that engaged to locate the Auditorium, to determine a suitable site for the new structure. President Abbott accordingly named a broadly representative committee including a number of the men who had served on the previous body. In the deliberations of this commission, however, some question arose as to the architect of the new Physics Building, and the problem of its location was for some time deferred. BlackalPs previous campus plan had shown the building located on the corner of Green Street and Mathews Avenue, where it now stands, but there seems to have been some doubt as to the advisability of locating such a building on this site. The presence of the street railway line on Green Street made the tract unsuitable for a Physics Building, and an alternative site on the block across Mathews Avenue from the Chemistry Building was suggested. Difficulty in securing this land at what was then considered a reasonable price caused a reversion to the site previously suggested, and it was formally designated September 10, 1907. The addition to the Natural History Building, authorized at the same time as the Physics Building, called for no study of sites. Its position on the plot assigned, however, was debated, and in the end the building was made to conform to the main lines of the quadrangle suggested by Blackall and
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