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Tennessee—Nashville—Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt administrators, inspired by City Beautiful theory, hired a series of nationally known planners and design professionals to make rational order from their organic campus. But plans for the Vanderbilt campus by Richard Morris Hunt (1902), the Vanderbilt family architect, and George Kessler (1905), the designer of the City Beautiful plan for the St. Louis World’s Fair, as well as the 1920s Day and Klauder plan, faced physical challenges that hindered implementation.

Great Aspirations
CAMPUS ARCHITECTURE REVEALS ITS PAST AND INFORMS ITS MISSION
by Christine Kreyling