Buildings, Architects, Grounds
College Buildings
- Beginning of Construction of Main Building
- Enclosure of Buildings
- Observatory Completed
- Main Completed
- Chemical department, Riding School Completed
- Main Opens
- List of Buildings at Opening
- Riding Academy and Calisthenium Completed
- Closing of Riding Academy
- Early Talk of New Dorm
- Foucault's Pendulum Suspended from Main
- Culinary/Household College
- Ivy on Main Building
- Laundry, Kitchen, Dining Room in Main Finished
- Telegraph Line in Main
- Art Gallery Moves
- Dedication of the Chapel
- Elevator Installed in Main
- Vassar Brothers Laboratory
- Telephone Service Established
- Alumnae Gymnasium Completed
- Faculty Houses on Raymond Avenue Built
- Addition to Vassar Brothers Laboratory Completed
- Thompson Annex to Main Completed
- Strong House Completed
- Addition to Observatory Finished
- President's House Built
- Raymond House Completed
- Rockefeller Hall Built
- Swift Memorial Infirmary Completed
- Lathrop House Completed
- New England Building Completed
- Davison House Completed
- Fire at Vassar Laundry
- Chapel Completed
- Francis A. Wood House Completed
- Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library Dedicated
- Addition to Alumnae Gymnasium Completed
- North House (Jewett) Completed
- Goodfellowship House Completed
- Sanders Laboratory of Chemistry Completed
- Electric Light Installed in Main
- McCaleb House, Faculty Dwelling, Completed
- Olivia Josselyn House Completed
- Students' Building Completed
- Taylor's Accomplishments as President
- Metcalf House Completed
- Pratt House Completed
- Taylor Hall Opened
- Wings Added to Library
- Fire in Main Building Causes Reconstruction
- Raymond Room Opened for Recreational Reading
- Funds for Main Reconstruction
- Williams House Completed
- Alumnae House Presented by Two Alumnae
- Williams House Wings Opened
- Henry M. Sanders Gives Laboratory of Physics
- Kendrick House Given by Myra H. Avery
- Wimpfheimer Nursery School Completed
- Palmer House, Faculty Dwelling, Completed
- Cushing House Dedicated
- Blodgett Hall Completed
- Belle Skinner Hall of Music Completed
- Dean's House Completed
- Helen Kenyon Hall of Physical Education Completed
- Name of Alumnae Gynasium Changed to Ely Hall
- Cooperative Apartment Set Up in Blodgett
- Olive M. Lammert Laboratories of Physical Chemistry Dedicated
- First Floor of Main Remodeled
- Van Ingen Library Completed
- Social Museum in Blodgett Opened
- Addition to Palmer House Completed
- Vassar Brothers Laboratory Razed
- Cooperative Apartment Moves to Palmer House
- Classical Museum Opened in Avery
- Baldwin House, Infirmary, Opens
- Conservation Glass Laboratory Erected
- Eleanor Plant Science Laboratory Completed
- Ferry Cooperative House Dedicated
- Dining Room Service in Dorms Replaced by Cafeteria System
- Library in Sanders Chemistry Building Opened
- Electronic Carrilion for Chapel Installed
- Conversion from Direct Current to Alternating Current Begins
- Ferrell House Given by Nellie Ferrell Cushing 1897
- Noyes House Given in Honor of Emma Hartman Noyes 1880
- Davison House Has Fire
- Chicago Hall Dedicated
- Main Remodeling Begins
- "Uncle Fred's Nose" Demolished
- Watson Apartments Dedicated
- Proposal for Terrace Apartments, Two Main Dining Halls, a New Science Building, and an Experimental Theater.
- Black-students' Dorm and Cultural Center Demanded.
- Capital Campaign to Construct New and Renovate Old Buildings.
- Architect to Be Contracted to Design a Black Dorm Demanded.
- Modified Version of Black Dorm Considered
- Kendrick House Became All-Black Dorm.
- National Civil Defense Agency Surveyed Vassar For Fallout Shelters
- Dedication of Poughkeepsie Day School, Located on Vassar's Campus
- Board of Trustees Approves new Building in Science Quad
- Ground Broke For Town Houses
- Town Houses Completed
- Ground Broke For Olmsted
Architects and Builders of Vassar Buildings
In Alphabetical Order
- Ruth Adams 1904, Dean's House
- Francis R. Allen, Raymond Ave. Faculty Houses
- Francis R. Allen, Thompson Annex
- Francis R. Allen, Strong House
- Francis R. Allen, Raymond House
- Allen and Collens, Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library
- Allen and Collens, McCaleb House
- Allen and Collens, Olivia Josselyn House
- Allen and Collens, Taylor Hall
- Allen and Collens, Library Wings
- Allen and Collens, Main Building Reconstruction
- Allen & Collens, Wimpfheimer Nursery School
- Allen and Collens, Cushing House
- Allen and Collens, Belle Skinner Hall of Music
- Allen and Collens, Helen Kenyon Hall of Physical Education
- Allen, Collens, and Willis, Van Ingen Library
- Allen and Ewing, Henry M. Sanders Laboratory of Physics
- Allen and Vance, Lathrop House
- Allen and Vance, Davison House
- Marcel Breuer, Ferry House (lectures)
- Marcel Breuer, Ferry Cooperative House (dedication)
- Campbell Building Company, Inc., "Uncle Fred's Nose"
- Winston Elting and Paul Schweiker, Chicago Hall
- Ewing and Chappelle, Sanders Laboratory of Chemistry
- Charles Farrar, Observatory
- Faulkner and Kingsbury, Palmer House Addition
- Faulkner and Kingsbury, Baldwin House
- Goldstone and Dearborn, Ferrell House
- Goldstone and Dearborn, Main Remodeling
- William Harloe
- Hunt and Hunt, Williams House
- Hunt and Hunt, Alumnae House
- Carl Koch and Associates, Jeannette K. Watson Faculty Apartements
- Lord and Burnham, Conservation Glass Laboratory
- Lord and Burnham, Eleanor Plant Science Laboratory
- John McAndrew, Vassar Cooperative Bookshop
- McKim, Mead, and White, Students' Building
- Pilcher and Tachau, Francis A. Wood House
- Pilcher and Tachau, North House (Jewett)
- Pilcher and Tachau, Goodfellowship House
- James S. Post, Main Extension
- James Renwick Jr., Architect, William Harloe, Builder, Main Building
- Renwick Completes Main Building
- Rossiter and Wright, President's House
- Eero Saarinen, Noyes House
- Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge, Chapel
- Edward C. Smith, Palmer House
- Thomas Alexander Tefft, first architect of Vassar College
- William M. Tubby, Alumnae Gymnasium
- York and Sawyer, Rockefeller Hall
- York and Sawyer, Swift Memorial Infirmary
- York and Sawyer, New England Building
- York and Sawyer, Metcalf House
- York and Sawyer, Pratt House
- York and Sawyer, Kendrick House
- York and Sawyer, Blodgett Hall
Campus, Grounds
In Chronological Order
Vassar Co-operative Book Shop
Observatory
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Last updated February 5, 1999 by Jeremy R. Linden, '00.