In contrast, when Ralph Adams Cram designed 1877 Hall (later renamed Campbell Hall), he created a structure that would balance and help put into proportion Blair Hall, which was across the green from the site of this new dormitory. Consequently, he chose a deliberately modest scale and located the L-shaped building, on a long axis parallel to Blair. The shorter wing extended out toward Blair Arch defining a three-sided quadrangle of Blair, the Halsted Observatory, and Campbell Hall.
Campbell Hall, Cram's only dormitory at Princeton, featured a handsome tower and archway near its western end. Cram called the detailing on the building "domestic," in keeping with the relative lack of ornamentation on Blair. Although Cram envisioned that the Blair courtyard would be entirely enclosed by Collegiate Gothic dormitories, he also recognized that the University was not going to demolish Halsted Observatory for some time. His vision was finally fulfilled in 1932 with the destruction of Halsted Observatory and the construction of Joline Hall on the same site.
In contrast, when Ralph Adams Cram designed 1877 Hall (later renamed Campbell Hall), he created a structure that would balance and help put into proportion Blair Hall, which was across the green from the site of this new dormitory. Consequently, he chose a deliberately modest scale and located the L-shaped building, on a long axis parallel to Blair. The shorter wing extended out toward Blair Arch defining a three-sided quadrangle of Blair, the Halsted Observatory, and Campbell Hall.
Campbell Hall, Cram's only dormitory at Princeton, featured a handsome tower and archway near its western end. Cram called the detailing on the building "domestic," in keeping with the relative lack of ornamentation on Blair. Although Cram envisioned that the Blair courtyard would be entirely enclosed by Collegiate Gothic dormitories, he also recognized that the University was not going to demolish Halsted Observatory for some time. His vision was finally fulfilled in 1932 with the destruction of Halsted Observatory and the construction of Joline Hall on the same site.