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The Making Of The Early Bryn Mawr Campus (Parts I-Ii), Michelle Osborn

Architecture, Grounds, and History

(Part I) Bryn Mawr College is unique in having been the only campus independently planned by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, two pioneering geniuses of 19th century landscape design. Bryn Mawr was also the last campus in the country whose plan was supervised by Olmsted, semi-retired at the time of his visit to the College in 1895. New interest in the campus buildings and grounds - manifest in the College's Greening Committee and in the student-led committee on historic preservation has been further spurred by the acquisition this fall of the eleven and one-half acre site of the former …