The
interior features a great Gothic reading
room, with open timbered roof, and wood
tresses resting on carved stone corbels, all
reminiscent of London’s Westminster Hall.
It is one of the most architecturally dramatic
interior spaces on campus. The large tracery
windows at both ends of the reading room, features
seals of women’s colleges on one side
and famous printers’ marks on the opposite
wall. Actually, the college seals depict
the first Woman’s schools in the Country
known as the seven-college conference. They
included, Smith College, Barnard College, Vassar
College, Bryn Mawr College, Radcliffe College,
Wellesley College and Mount Holyoke College.
The windows also featured seals of The Daughter
Colleges, which were woman’s colleges
set up in association with Mount Holyoke
College; Wheaton Seminary, Lake Erie, Mills
College, John Brown University and The Western
University.
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The
History of Gothic Architecture:
Cambridge
and Princeton
About Ralph Cram
A Time of Transition:
Bryn
Mawr
Mary E.
Woolley
Frederick
Olmsted Jr.
The Envisioned Plan:
Program for
Campus Development
Designs
for the Library and Chapel
Shurtleff
and Cram Present Their Ideas
The Implemented Plan:
Meetings
and Discussions
Collens'
Library Designs(Exterior)
Collens'
Library Designs (Interior)
Bertha
Blakely's Influence
Abbey Memorial
Chapel
Charles Collens
Dedication Speech and closing comments
Trivial Pursuit
Question
References
