
This curious proposal for Martin Hall was prepared in 1936 by Livingston and Smith of Philadelphia, the architects of the 1931 comprehensive plan. Although their earlier plan was conceived and drawn with Beaux Arts flourish, this rendering suggests a sparsely articulated cube, possibly of concrete block or large, regular blocks of stone, punctured by a monolithic expanse of glass window wall and vertical fins, possibly of metal. The similarity in spirit to the 1936 library proposal of Cram and Ferguson raises even more questions about what Aydelotte and his Board were thinking. This was indeed modern architecture for the 1930s and not likely to be found on many college campuses.