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additional academic accommodations; the new chapel — decidedly the 

 most ornate and conspicuous of the new buildings — lifted upon a spur 

 of the hills overlooking the plain. The barracks also will be kept, with 

 material additions and changes needed for the housing of the increased 

 number of cadets. To the north of the Cullum Memorial and balan- 

 cing the officers' mess-hall will be located a building for use as bach- 

 elors' quarters, of the same Georgian style of architecture. 



The enmity of styles, as far as possible, will be propitiated, one 

 blending with the other, without actually mingling, masses of foliage 

 serving to keep a measure of peace between them. Where the hotel 

 now stands it is proposed to erect the quarters of the superintendent, 

 the present battle monument duplicated on the right of what may be 

 termed the major axis of the scenic system. The avenue now exist- 

 ing vistas upon the center of academic life, while other avenues will 

 be made to radiate from here, across the plain, sweeping down the 

 hillside. 



The approach to the academy will probably be completely altered; 

 the landing either from railway or boats being made not only com- 

 modious but imposing. Access to the high level will be as now by 

 means of a gently winding ramp, while a large passenger elevator will 

 conduct to a public square, to the restaurant and hotel; these being 

 located where they vsdll be apart from the real activities of either 

 academic or military life, and yet conducing more readily to the con- 

 venience and comfort of visitors. From the south, the post will be 

 approached through elaborate arched gateways, with appropriate towers, 

 the strongest emphasis being placed upon this prime avenue, while be- 

 tween the two sections of the academy will be a monumental arch, to be 

 adorned with statues and memorials. 



As seen from the river the riding-hall, greatly enlarged, Avill 

 be the most imposing of structures, rising as it will from the perpen- 

 dicular crags, growing out of them and seeming a part of them, but- 

 tressed on front and flank and crowned with a line of battlements. 

 Above will rise the fine elevation of the post headquarters, which will 

 form also a striking background from the southern approach. 



The dominant style of the construction will be the Gothic, not 

 American architecture as it has grown pliant and flexible from the 

 studiously archeological, but suggestive of the ascendant impulses of 

 formality of former British models. The material will be generally 

 stone, treated with greater or less elaboration, according to the value 

 pictorially of the buildings, due harmony being preserved or achieved 

 by judicious alterations in effect. Several of the minor structures will 

 be of red brick in Flemish bond, trimmed with stone. 



Perhaps the most difficult problem was that of the judicious en- 

 largement of the cadet barracks, to accommodate double or more the 



