Stanford University, aerial view, color postcard

Stanford University, aerial view, color postcard

Stanford University's Mediterranean influenced architecture appealed to the early Rice Institute board. The style features buildings with carved stone arches, colonades and towers, organized along an axis punctuated by open quads and preserving long sight lines through the campus.

Forms part of the Edgar Odell Lovett and Mary Ellen Hale Lovett Family papers, 1849-1979
MS 494. Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University. woodson@rice.edu

Digital version published by Rice University, 2010.

ca. 1908

This material is in the public domain.

wrc00261

Digitized August 24, 2010

This item was collected on the world tour taken by Rice Institute President Edgar Odell Lovett, his wife Mary Hale Lovett, and Secretary for Rice's Board of Trustees, Carrington Weems. The mission of the tour was to research the best characteristics of the world's top universities and plan the academic, administrative, student and physical structure of the Rice Institute.

Color postcard

3"x7"