A BRIEF HISTORY OF WASHINGTON AND LEE - Society for ...

PRESERVATION MASTER PLANOCTOBER 2005Figure 19: Aerial of Washington and Lee University, post 1979. (Source: Washington andLee University Library.)In 1995, William T. Borellis designed a garden at Lee Chapel aroundthe grave of Traveller, General Lee’s beloved horse. The garden wasa gift of the 1995 Washington and Lee Alumni Board of Directors andthe Virginia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.As part of that project, the Memorial parking lot was reconfiguredand one of the rows of boxwood plants was removed. 31In 1996, a new science building was constructed. At the northwestcorner of the campus, the Douchossois Tennis Center was completed in1997. In 1998 the origins of Washington and Lee were recognized withthe installation of an historic marker paying tribute to Liberty Hall. In1998, the Museum in the lower level of Lee Chapel was extensivelyrenovated, becoming a focal point for the University’s history.With the early 21 stcentury establishment of sororities at Washingtonand Lee in 2001/2002, five sorority houses were constructed.They were located on the west side of the Woods Creek ravine,near Washington Street on Frank Parsons Way. Further provisionfor student gatherings was created with the construction of ElrodCommons, known as ‘the Commons’ (see fi gure 19).31Online at http://physicalplant.wlu.edu/services.html (Accessed January,24, 2005).2-25