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The Olmsted Brothers worked on the improvement of Vassar College from 1896 when the institution decided to add two new buildings. The form provided advice on the “location of prospective buildings…and the rearrangement of the grounds.”

The Olmsted Brothers worked on the improvement of Vassar College from 1896 when the institution decided to add two new buildings. The form provided advice on the “location of prospective buildings…and the rearrangement of the grounds.” In order to accommodate future expansion they recommended that “the recitation rooms,a assembly halls, laboratories and other rooms of the working department in buildings grouped in a central nucleus leaving the dormitories, boarding houses, club houses, professors dwellings and other forms of residence to be provided for in buildings forming an outer zone or tier.” [Dr. J.M. Taylor to Olmsted Brothers_07-26-1896_LOC-OAR-B-R68_im.5]

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