Around 1908, it began casting about for an appropriate design. At first, Campus seemed to have envisioned a grandiose clubhouse. An artist's rendering of a magnificent new structure projected a large brick building in the same Collegiate Gothic style of both Cap & Gown club as well as Campus's neighbors across Washington Road, 1879 Hall (built 1903) and Palmer Physical Laboratory (built 1907).

Among the interesting elements in this rendering are the large oriel window in the center of the western wing and a central courtyard around the entrance, a device that would reemerge in the design of Charter.