Dreams in Stone - The University of Chicago

Dreams in Stone - The University of Chicago. Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1976. Hardcover book with dust jacket in very good condition. First Edition. 274 pages of text including an index to the buildings and an index to the architects. Hardcover binding in almost new condition.

Illustrated with 348 black & white photographs, taken by Patrice Grimbert, Luis Medina and Jose Lupez, featuring every building on the campus and the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin. Contains a large folding plan at the rear of the text, giving a birds-eye view of the campus showing the placement of university structures. The campus consists of 165 acres of trees, gardens and lawns surrounded on either side by Frederick Law Olmstead's Midway Plaisance.