The Days of a Man 1891 



The Quad- and red-tile roofing of the old Spanish Missions of 

 rangUs California, enriched by the detail and ornament of 

 the Romanesque, which is also distinctively the style 

 of the Memorial Church. The Inner Quadrangle 

 consists of twelve one-story buildings and the Church, 

 the whole connected by a continuous open arcade, 

 and surrounding a court 586 feet long by 246 feet 

 wide - - that is, three and a quarter acres in extent. 

 The buildings are of a rich, buff sandstone l which 

 hardens on exposure and is peculiarly adapted for 

 chiseling because of its even texture and lack of 

 breaks." The fourteen buildings of the Outer Quad- 

 rangle, two and a half stories in height, have their 

 arcades on the outside, so that the two sets are 

 placed back to back, but with generous garden spaces 

 between. 



The Patio In the large inner court are eight circular plots, 

 each about two rods in diameter, planted with 

 palms of four species, besides camphor trees, loquats, 

 Paulownia^ Bracbycbcete, Casuarina, and other pic- 

 turesque semi-tropical forms. Of very modest 

 growth when the University opened, they now tower 

 almost above the buildings round about. 



The Inner Quadrangle, supplemented by the 

 Chemical Laboratory which stands apart and the 

 necessary shops sufficiently removed, served for ten 

 years, though inadequately, the needs of the rapidly 

 expanding institution. The Museum, planned from 

 the beginning as a separate unit of a different type 

 of architecture, was placed some distance away. 



To all who have ever frequented the arcades and 

 courts of Stanford University, its founders' choice 

 of architectural theme and material seems inspired. 



1 Quarried at New Almaden, ten miles south of San Jose. 



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