Island Air View, early 1920s

This view, taken before Warham Hall was constructed in 1923, shows the Island’s abundant open space.
 

Founders, circa 1920

Bricked paths led from the Senior Path to Taylor and Mason, the only dormitories on campus at this time.
 

Gwendolen Hall, 1920s

The first loop road passed between the William H. Loomis Dining Hall, Mason Hall and Gwendolen Hall. The school farm and Goodrich House are seen in the background.
 

Taylor Hall, 1920s

Ivy climbed the exterior wall of Taylor Hall and other campus buildings when the school was a young institution.
 

Founders Chapel, 1917

Mattie E. Hewitt, a pioneering female architectural photographer, made a series of images of the early school buildings. This view of Founders Chapel shows the organ in its original location, near the front of the room.
 

Sellers Hall, 1950s

Irwin Jones ’22 designed Sellers Hall, a tribute to Chaffee Director Florence E. Sellers. She lead the school at the time of the hall’s dedication but her untimely death prevented Mrs. Sellers from seeing a major addition completed in 1957.
 

Heads House, 1914

Murphy and Dana’s gracious architectural design made a welcome home in 1914 for Mr. and Mrs. Batchelder. Two years earlier on his first visit, Mr. B described the Island as “a rather desolate bit of New England farm land.”
 

Chaffee House, 1930s

Early spring splendor is a perfect complement to the eighteenth-century Chaffee House and Windsor’s spacious Palisado Green. Noted local photographer Daniel Broderick took this image in the 1930s.
 

Clark Science Center, 1964

Clark’s modern plaza was a departure from the Neoclassical architecture of the Quadrangle. It set the stage for innovation and adaptation of architectural tradition in the campus buildings that followed.