Around the same time, the other notable holdover from McCosh's time, the John C. Green School of Science, was beginning to show its age. Once considered the leading science building of its time, this High Victorian Gothic building was in poor condition by the 1920s. Not only was it stylistically anomalous amidst the new Collegiate Gothic structures, but it was too old and cramped to provide adequate laboratory facilities for the rapidly expanding engineering and chemistry departments. It had already outlived its usefulness when it, too, burned to the ground in 1928.