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WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITYLEXINGTON, VIRGINIAFigure 13: J.C. Link plan for a mall behind the Colonnade. (Source: Lyle & Simpson, The Architecture of Historic Lexington.)In 1904, St. Louis architect, Theodore C. Link, created acomprehensive master plan for future development of the campus(see fi gure 13). A major component of Link’s plan was an interiormall behind the original Colonnade formed by Washington, Payneand Robinson Halls. Two new buildings emphasized the classicaltradition once again at Washington and Lee: Reid Hall (1904),designed by Theodore C. Link, and oriented westward, away from theinterior mall, and Lees Dormitory (1904), designed by Washington,D.C. architect B.C. Flournoy and located on Washington Streetadjacent to the President’s House. The idea was to create a secondColonnade separated from the original by the Mall with prominentbuildings terminating at each end. Although not entirely executed,the interior Mall plan with substantial buildings at each end waspartially realized. Lees Dormitory and Reid Hall were also of alarger scale and greater massing than the classical buildings on thecolonnade and were more influenced by English Palladianism thanthe nineteenth-century classical revival. 2525Royster Lyle Jr., and Pamela Simpson, The Architecture of HistoricLexington, 171.2-16
PRESERVATION MASTER PLANOCTOBER 2005Figure 14: J.C. Aerial view showing interior mall, ca. 1950s. (Source: Washington and LeeUniversity.)In 1907, a $50,000 contribution from Andrew Carnegie allowed forthe construction of a new library, located at the south end of the Mallon axis with a proposed new art school and gallery. The buildinghad a low Roman dome over a large circular reading room (seefi gure 14). It was named Carnegie Library. B.C. Flournoy designedthe library. Flournoy, and his partner Parke P. Flournoy, became theUniversity’s chief architects for the next twelve years.The Flournoy partners also designed a new Dining Hall in 1910(now the Supply Store) and the Doremus Gymnasium in 1914.Newcomb Hall was altered in 1909 to include a six-columned,pedimented portico so that it would better blend in with the originalcampus buildings.2-17
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