‘New campus’ proponent Pope's legacy lives on
Nearly a century before Cross Campus Library was renamed Bass, the Cross Campus itself was to be called the “New Campus” and was to extend to Temple Street — about twice as far as Cross Campus does today.
It was in John Russell Pope’s 1919 master plan that the “New Campus” was proposed in its first form. But the many changes to Pope’s original vision implemented by architect James Gamble Rogers 1889 do not detract from the fact that much of Yale’s current campus is fundamentally the product of Pope’s work.
Pope’s plan, which was presented to the Yale Corporation as a book...
Getting rid of Durfee Hall would've made sense...opening up the Old Campus (both visually and physically) would've done a lot to make Yale seem more open and together.
But isn't Durfee the home of the Women's Center? Good luck tearing *that* down!
Having Cross Campus and Hillhouse intersect would actually have been a REALLY good idea. That would have made the campus a lot more unified, and (although it would have cut through the future Silliman), it would have made the SM/TD wing of campus a lot less distant from the rest of the campus.