Oklahoma State University Campus, Bounded by McElroy Road, North Duck Street, North Knoblock Street & West University Avenue, Stillwater

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A land-grant university founded in Oklahoma State University was designed based on a 25-year campus master plan created in by the landscape architecture firm McCrary, Culley, and Carhart out of Denver, Colorado. It is one of a small number of universities across the country to have been built based on a master plan and and with a uniform architectural style which has been continued to the present day. History: Architecturally, the campus buildings were designed based upon the Georgian Renaissance style which was used in the English Colonial capital of Williamsburg, Virginia, a design theme which uses red-orange brick and limestone trim. Dr. Henry Bennett, who became the President of Oklahoma A&M College in is credited with starting the initiative to create a master plan for the university.

In addition, architecture professors D.A. Hamilton and Philip Wilbur influenced the decision for the Georgian Renaissance theme used for campus buildings. The library was originally intended to be the center piece of the campus design. North-South and East-West axes were to intersect at the library and provide site lines across great lawns, with buildings adjacent to the axes grouped in quadrangles. A formal landscape planting design was adopted to compliment the formal design of the buildings. Sections of campus have deviated from this formal style, such as Theta Pond on the Southwest corner of campus which is of the Romantic Naturalistic style. In addition, the site line to the north of the library is obstructed by new buildings.

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