Campus Structures
Entrance Gate and Palm Drive
Palm Drive was a late addition to Stanford University's campus plan, introduced in April 1888 at Leland Stanford's request, well after construction of the Quad had begun.
Museum (Cantor Arts Center)
The Leland Stanford Junior Museum, located along the west side of Palm Drive, was the second project planned by the Stanfords to memorialize their son.
Gymnasium
The Men’s Gymnasium, originally intended for a lateral quad off the main quad, was relocated across Palm Drive from the museum. It's design echoed the museum’s neoclassical style and shared with it prominent architectural elements, like a glazed dome.
LIbrary
“A great library is the most important element in the formation of a great University,” wrote President David Starr Jordan. Leland Stanford, on the other hand, thought the library should be respectable and utilitarian, but modest in its holdings.
Chemistry
Old Chem was designed by architect Clinton Day, who also designed the Library. Construction probably began around 1899 and was finished, after some delays, in 1903.
Memorial Arch
In planning their physical monument to their only child, Jane and Leland Stanford wanted the entrance to the university to be marked by a “large memorial arch with an enormously large approach.”
Quadrangle and Arches
In 1906, the Outer Quadrangle buildings, including major structures at each corner, had been completed. Memorial Church, in its prominent place opposite Memorial Court, was dedicated in January 1903, and the Memorial Arch marked the entrance to the Quad.
Memorial Church
“While my whole heart is in the university, my soul is in that church,” Jane Stanford told John Casper Branner, Stanford’s second president
Dormitories
Leland Stanford dedicated four-fifths of the cost of the Inner Quad to the construction of the 280,000 square foot Encina Hall, a dormitory which could accommodate up to 400 men and was counted among the finest in the country.