ATDTDA (2): Sloane Lab (33.33-37) and F.L. Olmstead/Jackson Park

[Tim Strzechowski]

"The audacity and scope of the inventor's dreams had always sent Heino Vanderjuice staggering back to his office in Sloane Lab feeling not so much a failure as someone who has taken a wrong turn in the labyrinth of Time and now cannot find his way back to the moment he made it" (p. 33).


 
Completed in 1912, was the gift of Henry T. Sloane, BA 1866, and William D. Sloane, MA HON. 1889. Of Longmeadow stone, it is Collegiate Gothic in style. Charles C. Haight was the architect. (An underground addition was constructed in 1958 to house a Van de Graaff machine-now removed. The John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc., and the U.S. Public Health Service financed it. Sloane Lab was the first University constructed on the Hillhouse Estate (less the three acres adjoining Sachem’s Wood). The property was a gift in 1910 of Mrs. Russell Sage, and called Pierson Sage Square. The University had wanted to acquire the land to develop into a turn-of-the-century “science park”. The well-known landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmstead advised in the land’s development. [217 Prospect Street] 
 
http://www.facilities.yale.edu/campus/Building1.asp?lstBldg=1075
 
http://www.facilities.yale.edu/images/BFS/1075.jpg
 

Olmstead??  Hmmmm . . . 

Interestingly, Frederick Law Olmstead was also pivital in the development of the grounds for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.  His famous "Wooded Isle" remains a centerpiece in Jackson Park.
 
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.hydepark.org/parks/pics/laggen4.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.hydepark.org/parks/jpac/jpkhistoryandfair.htm&h=228&w=349&sz=27&hl=en&start=9&tbnid=MMHMTrlhc_81EM:&tbnh=78&tbnw=120&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dolmstead%2B%252B%2Bjackson%2Bpark%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D
 
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.hydepark.org/parks/jpac/pics/newboardwalk.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.hydepark.org/parks/jpac/lagphotogal.htm&h=225&w=300&sz=38&hl=en&start=13&tbnid=ZVyOSZA286CLgM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dolmstead%2B%252B%2Bjackson%2Bpark%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D