...and 1879 Halls.

Indicative of the contemporary appetites for building, there was even one proposal to build a kind of Collegiate Gothic wall extending south from Patton, in a U-shape, to create a vast courtyard anchored by the Gymnasium and Patton. This proposed group of buildings, christened the "Alumni dormitories," would have contained numerous entries and several towers, including a gate tower modeled specifically on Magdalen Tower, Oxford.

Although the dormitories from this period conformed to the university's mandated Collegiate Gothic style, each represents a slightly different twist on the style.