Download PDF Academia: Collegiate Gothic Architecture in the United States

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Explore America's most breathtaking college campuses8213where Gilded Age wealth found a Gothic inspiration.The Collegiate Gothic style, which flourished between the Gilded Age and the Jazz Age, was intended to lend an air of dignified history to America8217s relatively youthful seats of higher learning. In fact, this mash-up of Oxbridge quaintness with piles of new money gave rise8213at schools like Princeton and Vassar, Yale and Chicago8213to unprecedented architectural fantasies that reshaped the image of the college campus. Today the ivy-covered monuments of Collegiate Gothic still exercise a powerful hold on the public imagination8213as evidenced, for example, by their prominent place in the Dark Academia aesthetic that has swept social media.In Academia, the noted architectural historian William Morgan traces the entire arc of Collegiate Gothic, from its first emergence at campuses like Kenyon and Bowdoin to its apotheosis in James Gamble Rogers8217s intricately detailed