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83-551: Undergraduate housing is organized as being East Campus, West Campus, or the Row. East Campus has the complexes of Stern, Wilbur, and Gerhard Casper Quad and the standalone dormitories of Branner, Toyon, Mirrielees, and Crothers. West Campus has the complexes of Florence Moore Hall, Lagunita Court, and Governor's Corner and the standalone Roble Hall. The Row is on the south-east to south side of campus and consists of about 3 dozen houses housing between 25 and 60 students each. These include

166-552: A Palo Alto city councilwoman because the elder Terman—like Jordan—espoused eugenics. The Palo Alto Adult School (PAAS) is a California Adult School established by the Palo Alto Unified School District in 1921. It offers several classes across a number of schools. Its main office is located in the Tower Building at Palo Alto High School. There are no restrictions on enrollment in regards to

249-665: A distinguished athletic tradition, marked in recent years by a rivalry with crosstown foe Gunn , a somewhat less athletically-minded school. Titles won by teams from Paly include California State Championships in Boys Varsity Basketball in 1993 (during which the team went undefeated) and 2006, and a California State Championship in Football in 2010 (as well as CCS Championships in 2006 and 2007). The Paly Girls Varsity Volleyball team won back-to-back state championships in 2010 and 2011. Palo Alto High School also received

332-482: A hired cook, and nine Greek houses. All of the row houses are owned by the university, except 550 Mayfield which was formerly home to fraternity members of Sigma Chi. All Row houses set and collect their own board bills. To accomplish this, a Resident Assistant is selected by the Associate Director on the Row and each Row house has Student Managers (selected by their peers) to oversee the operations of

415-625: A history professor who was also the first chairman of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives . Schiff is named after physics professor Leonard I. Schiff , who was the first chair of the Faculty Senate at Stanford. Potter is named for history professor David M. Potter and Robinson for yet another history professor Edgar Eugene Robinson, who chaired the Independent Study Program, precursor to

498-517: A homogeneous campus of quadrangles, proposing that the buildings be mostly one-story structures constructed from “massive rough stone”. According to a Gertrude Atherton report in Harper's Weekly , the plan was to mimic adobe, but considerations of climate and durability led the Stanfords to settle on a tan-colored local sandstone. Olmsted, who created the university's first Master Plan, called for

581-531: A mix of single rooms, double rooms, and three-person quads. Lucie Stern Hall , named for a generous Stanford donor, was built in 1948 and renovated in 1995. Its style represents "Stanford’s brief departure into architectural modernism" by not following the usual Stanford pattern of sandstone-colored, arcaded buildings with red tile roofs. It comprises six houses that each accommodate about 100 freshmen. The houses named for California pioneers are Burbank, named for Luther Burbank ; Donner; Larkin; Sally Ride named for

664-597: A multimillion-dollar performing arts center, officially opening on October 1, 2016. Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle School, formerly David S. Jordan Middle School, is located at 750 N. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94303. The school mascot is the jaguar . The 2018–19 school year had 1,050 students in attendance. The student population was 54% male and 46% female. Its racial makeup was 40% Caucasian , 30% Asian , 14% Hispanic , 2% African American , and 13% Other (including multiple races). Named after Stanford University president David Starr Jordan , Jordan Middle School

747-611: A seasoned landscape architect who had planned Central Park and created early master plans for the University of California . The Stanfords invited the two to Palo Alto in August 1886 to survey the location. Olmsted initially proposed to build the campus on the foothills, but in fall of 1886, the Stanfords decided to build on flat farmland in Palo Alto. In a November 30, 1886 report to Leland Stanford, Walker and Olmsted recommended

830-447: A span of nine months, mainly by walking in front of trains at a local crossing. As a result, steps have been taken to limit access to the tracks. Attempts have since been made to try to improve the emotional health of students attending the schools. As of 2015 , cluster suicide has remained a problem in the district's high schools. In February 2016, a team of suicide prevention specialists from Epidemiologic Assistance (Epi-Aids) of

913-702: A student's place of residence or citizenship. English-language-learning and citizenship classes are free, and other classes charge a low fee. Herb Wong , jazz expert and educator, was a teacher at the adult school. The Palo Alto Adult School is part of the North Santa Clara County Student Transition Consortium (STC), with nearby De Anza College , Foothill College , Mountain View Los Altos Adult Education, and Sunnyvale–Cupertino Adult Education. It has classes at seven locations within

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996-560: A system of originally all-male organizations which served a social function as well as a food service plan. The eating clubs became co-ed during the 1970s, and the eating club system was abolished in 2009. Wilbur Hall houses 707 students in eight houses surrounding a common dining complex. It is named for Stanford's third president, Ray Lyman Wilbur . It was built in the late 1940s and represents an architectural departure from Stanford's usual theme of sandstone-colored, arcaded buildings with red tile roofs. Originally built for male students, it

1079-712: Is Timmy the Titan. The student newspaper is The Oracle , part of the High School National Ad Network . Palo Alto Senior High School , known locally as Paly , is among the oldest high schools in the region. Founded in 1898, its enrollment today is over 1700 students. It is also academically competitive, though is generally regarded as less so than Gunn. Paly ranked #239 in the 2023-24 US News national high school ranking and #7 in Niche's ranking of California Public schools. Palo Alto High also carries on

1162-577: Is a public school district located near Stanford University in Palo Alto, California . It consists of twelve primary schools , three middle schools , two high schools , with a third opening Fall of 2024, and an adult school . The district itself was founded on March 20, 1893, with the first school opening in September of that year. Enrollment grew until it reached a peak of 15,576 students in 1967. Afterwards, enrollment declined sharply, forcing

1245-600: Is a theme house with an orientation toward teaching and education; the name stands for Education and Society Theme House. Lagunita Court , usually called "Lag" (pronounced "log"), was built in the 1930s and renovated in 1998. It is named for the adjacent, seasonal lake Lagunita. It originally consisted of six small residential buildings, or "houses", arranged around a central courtyard; the houses were all initially given names of trees in Spanish. These houses are Eucalipto (eucalyptus), Granada (pomegranate) and Adelfa (oleander) on

1328-612: Is for another house that had existed on the Stanford land, Los Trancos Villa; tranco itself means threshold. The last house, Okada, was originally named Madera for another local land grant, Rancho Corte de Madera , but was renamed Okada when it became the Asian American cross-cultural theme house. While Wilbur Hall has, at times, hosted a mix of upperclassmen and underclassmen, the Wilbur residences are now mostly freshmen dorms;

1411-463: Is located at 655 Arastradero Road in Palo Alto. The school mascot is the tiger . The 2018–19 school year had 668 students in attendance. The student population was 54% male and 46% female. Its racial makeup was 38% Asian, 30% White, 16% Hispanic, 12% Two or More Races, 1% Black and 1% Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander. The original name of the school located on the site was Terman Junior High School (named after Lewis Madison Terman ), unrelated to

1494-545: Is named after Henry Martin Gunn (1898–1988), Palo Alto's superintendent from 1950–1961, who saw the district expand from 5,500 students to 14,000, adding 17 new schools and is credited with the establishment of community colleges De Anza College and Foothill College . In 1964, the Palo Alto Unified School District announced it would name its third high school after him (the second, Cubberley High School , closed in 1979), with its first class graduating in 1966. The school's mascot

1577-468: Is named after University President John Casper Branner . It was built in 1924 and was designed by the San Francisco firm of Bakewell and Brown . It was originally an all-male dormitory and later all-female before becoming coed. Crothers Hall is an all freshman dorm, and the largest frosh dorm on Stanford’s campus. It was re-designated an all-frosh dorm in 2021 under the new neighborhood system. It

1660-424: Is now coed. The houses were named in Spanish. Arroyo means creek. Cedro means cedar but was also the name of a cottage on the Stanford land where Charles Lathrop, Jane Stanford's brother, lived. Junipero means juniper. Otero is small hill in Spanish. Rinconada is named for the local Spanish land grant, Rancho Rinconada del Arroyo de San Francisquito , but, the word also means 'angle'. Soto means thicket. Trancos

1743-550: Is the Panther . The 2018–19 school year had 1,137 students in attendance. The student population was 54% male and 46% female. Its racial makeup was 44% Asian , 32% Caucasian , 12% Hispanic , 1% African American , and 11% Other (including multiple races). The land that Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School and the adjoining Fairmeadow Elementary School now sit on were once owned by three farmers. The farmers sold their land to real estate developer Joseph Eichler , who later donated

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1826-458: Is the heart and oldest part of Stanford University in California . The collection of connected buildings was started in 1887 and completed in 1906. The Quad was damaged in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , repaired, less severely damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake , and repaired again. The exteriors have remained almost the same since the beginning, though the interiors of most of

1909-674: The Richardsonian Romanesque style, and features of that style including "round low arches, sturdy piers, massive walls, simple silhouettes, and sheltering roofs" are prominent in the Quad. The style was adapted to a California Mission theme. The primary building materials were local yellow sandstone and red tile roofs. The sandstone was quarried at the Graystone Quarry in San Jose, California , and transported to

1992-466: The equivalent number at archrival UC Berkeley was 4.8%. Stanford then paused its construction program and no new halls were built for several decades, though the Manzanita trailer park was set up in 1969 to provide temporary housing. In the early 1980s, west side Sterling Quad (Governor's Corner) was built and in the early 1990s east side Kimball, Castaño, and Lantana Halls were built on what had been

2075-559: The 1950s are the multitude of apartment buildings in Escondido Village which has many townhouses, known as "low-rises", where students with children can live and an elementary school, Escondido School which is part of the Palo Alto Unified School District . A legacy issue with the pre-1978 construction is the widespread presence of exceptionally hazardous toxins in the building materials. Much of

2158-538: The 6 fraternity houses and 3 sorority houses (as of 2016/2017). Married (or officially partnered) undergraduates or those with children are housed with graduate students. Graduate housing consists of Escondido Village, Rains Houses, Kennedy Graduate Residences, Munger Graduate Residences, GSB (Graduate School of Business) Residences on East Campus and the Lyman Graduate Residences on West Campus. Students with children live in family courtyards among

2241-657: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) paid a two-week visit to the area to determine risk factors. In July 2016, the Epi-Aids team released preliminary findings. Henry M. Gunn High School is one of two public high schools in Palo Alto. Gunn is a very academically focused school, ranking as #180 in US News' 2023-24 national high school ranking and #3 in Niche 's ranking of California public schools. The school

2324-533: The Cowell Cluster to the Lake Houses and all along Mayfield Avenue, with a total population of a little over 1600 students. Houses range in occupancy from 30 to 65. Out of the 35 Row houses, there are seven co-ops in which the students do their own cooking and cleaning (Synergy, Columbae, 576 Alvarado, Hammarskjold, Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Terra, and Kairos), 19 self-ops in which the cooking is done by

2407-793: The Engineering Corner with the Oregon Courtyard of flowering cherry trees, the Geology Corner with a garden designed by Thomas Church , and the Math Corner. Other than Engineering, which now houses the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (hence is often now referred to as the Language Corner), the respective disciplines are still in their corners. Besides the gardens in the minor courtyards,

2490-497: The Escondido Village low-rises. Due to the difficulty of finding reasonably priced off-campus housing and shortage of on-campus housing, Stanford has also leased a large number of off-campus apartments and subleases them to graduate students. By 2020/2021 new buildings in the Escondido Village area will have been constructed for a net gain of 2,000 beds. The architects of Stanford University originally proposed that student housing consist of cottages each housing 15 to 25 students with

2573-566: The Main Quad are another lawn, some bicycle parking, a long sandstone balustrade originally built in 1902, and steps up to the level of the quad: the main steps to Memorial Court, the east steps to Wallenberg Hall (building 160), and the west steps to building 420. The Inner Quad consists of a large courtyard surrounded by twelve connected buildings (numbered clockwise, 1 through 110) and Stanford Memorial Church . Around that are 14 additional connected buildings (120 through 460) that make up

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2656-569: The Math Corner is a casting of George Segal 's Gay Liberation sculpture. The statue, consisting of four life-sized figures, was commissioned in 1979 (the 10th anniversary of the Stonewall riots ) and created in 1980. It was the first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights . Two castings were made and originally intended for installation in New York and Los Angeles, but the statue proved too controversial for either city. The second casting

2739-547: The Norcliffe Foundation in West Lag. Originally built for women students, Lag is now coed. Roble Hall, built in 1917 and designed by architect George W. Kelham , is the oldest dormitory at Stanford still in use as a dormitory. It was built as a women's dormitory and later was used exclusively for freshman women; it was converted to a coed residence in 1968. The Row is made up of 36 student-managed houses, from

2822-546: The Outer Quad. The Outer Quad buildings create several additional courtyards. Memorial Court, the most important, is the front entrance of the structure. Besides the front entrance there are also the east and west entrances with gatehouses over them where they enter the inner courtyard. The four corners of the Outer Quad are named, clockwise from Memorial Court, the History Corner with its courtyard of citrus trees,

2905-501: The Palo Alto Transit Center . It started small in 1976 with the intent of cutting car traffic on campus; parking fees were started at the same time. In 1989 the university wanted to expand but had to agree not to increase automobile traffic on campus at all to get planning permission from the county; among other methods it expanded the shuttle from commute hours only to all-day and increased the number of routes. In

2988-460: The Pigott family; both families have long connections with Stanford University. Building 460 is Margaret Jacks Hall, named in 1980 for the daughter (who died in 1962 and left a bequest to the university) of David Jacks . Building 120 is named McClatchy Hall. Memorial Court features several sculptures by Auguste Rodin from his grouping The Burghers of Calais . Adjacent to the Main Quad at

3071-534: The Political Science department. Encina Hall was built well to the east of the Main Quad while the first women's dorm, the original Roble Hall, was built well to the west of the Main Quad just before the university opened in 1891 (about a half a mile separated the two halls). The original Roble plans were shelved when it was realized that it could not be built before the university opened in 1891. Jane Stanford insisted that both men and women be admitted in

3154-633: The Quad buildings. Language Corner and Geology Corner were closed for repairs for more than five years; most of that time was spent negotiating with the Federal Emergency Management Agency over paying for the repairs. Memorial Church was also damaged but was repaired more quickly via private donations. In 2020, the Stanford Department of Psychology and student-led groups began the process to rename Jordan Hall because of David Starr Jordan 's association with

3237-940: The RA, the residents and to engage residents in the important decisions about house management and the use of house monies. Many of the Stanford row houses have hosted different organizations throughout the years. What is currently The Warehaus originally housed the Delta Delta Delta sorority and Slavianskii Dom originally housed the Alpha Phi sorority. 37°25′30″N 122°10′45″W  /  37.42500°N 122.17917°W  / 37.42500; -122.17917 Main Quad (Stanford University) 37°25′39″N 122°10′13″W  /  37.42750°N 122.17028°W  / 37.42750; -122.17028 The Main Quadrangle , or more commonly Main Quad or simply Quad ,

3320-692: The Science and Engineering Quad was built to the west, starting in the 1980s and completed in 2013. The Main Quad now houses many departments and classrooms and also the offices of the President, Provost, and administrative offices of the School of Humanities and Sciences. The main courtyard is used for University functions, in particular the Baccalaureate service held on the day before the main graduation ceremony, departmental graduation ceremonies, and

3403-486: The Stanford graduate and astronaut (name changed in 2019 from Serra for Junípero Serra ); and Twain, named for Mark Twain . The sixth house, originally Muir for John Muir , was renamed Casa Zapata in 1972 and has a Chicano-Latino cross-cultural theme. Toyon Hall is an upperclassman dorm, designed by Bakewell and Brown and built in 1923 to house 150 men. Toyon was the home of the Stanford Eating Clubs ,

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3486-470: The academic resources of one of the world’s premier research universities". As a result of Stanford's Neighborhood System, Adams and Schiff have since become independent of each other and each house ~100 freshman and upperclass students in a non-themed environment. The suites are apartment-style houses for upperclass students and are housed in Anderson, Griffin, Jenkins and Marx (a theme house). The names of

3569-438: The annual alumni reunion dinner. A long-standing tradition is Full Moon on the Quad . In its oldest form it was an event at which "a Stanford girl becomes a Stanford woman ... when kissed by a senior man in front of Memorial Church under the light of a full moon"; now it is a party with much kissing held on the first full moon of winter quarter. Palo Alto Unified School District The Palo Alto Unified School District

3652-584: The borders of the Palo Alto Unified School District. At its peak in 1967, Palo Alto had 22 K-6 elementary schools. Of those, these schools are closed: The Palo Alto Unified Board of Education (often known as the Palo Alto Unified School Board) consists of five members elected at-large. The current members of the school board are Shounak Dharap, Shana Segal, Todd Collins, Jennifer DiBrienza, and Jesse Ladomirak. On November 3, 2020, DiBrienza and Collins were re-elected, while Ladomirak

3735-408: The building site via a private railway spur. Hundreds of laborers received the sandstone, cut it to size, dressed it, and finished it; skilled stonecutters and sculptors, primarily from Italy, installed it and embellished it with friezes. Over the objections of the architects, the Stanfords insisted that the main entrance to the Quad be "a large memorial arch with an enormously large approach". The arch

3818-476: The buildings have changed radically. The Main Quad is still used for its original purposes of teaching, research, and administration. The Main Quad is built on a slight slope so that though the back of the structure is level with the ground, the front is elevated. It is oriented slightly east of north along the Memorial Church–;Memorial Court–Palm Drive axis. The front approach is at

3901-473: The cottages for the men to the south-east of the main quad of the university and for the women to the south-west. The founders, Leland and Jane Stanford, rejected the idea and decided that the recently built Hôtel Kursaal de la Maloja in Switzerland would be the model for the original men's dorm, Encina Hall, housing 300. Encina Hall proved problematic as a dorm and now houses administrative offices and

3984-498: The district sought to potentially overtake the land by eminent domain from the residing Jewish Community Center . As a result, land from the Cubberley Community Center was instead traded for the land the district needed at Terman. The JCC continued to lease district land at Cubberley until it made other plans. Beginning in the 2018–2019 school year the school was renamed Ellen T. Fletcher Middle School after

4067-774: The district to close many schools. Enrollment was at its lowest in 1989 with only 7,452 students. Jordan Middle School was reopened when enrollment increased again. Barron Park Elementary School was added in 1998, and Terman Middle School was reopened in 2001. In 2013 the district had 12,268 students. All district schools were closed on March 16, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . A plan passed on September 29, 2020 to reopen elementary schools on October 12, and high schools on January 7, 2021, caused widespread debate, including criticism from teachers and staff citing safety concerns. Palo Alto high schools received national attention in 2009 after five of its students committed suicide over

4150-408: The dolphin returned to its status as co-mascot with the jaguar. Due to Jordan's involvement in eugenics , the school was renamed beginning in the 2018–2019 school year after venture capitalist Frank S. Greene Jr . Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School, formerly Ray Lyman Wilbur Junior High School and known locally as JLS , is located at 480 East Meadow Dr., Palo Alto, CA 94306. The school mascot

4233-423: The earliest days of the university; it initially cost 10 cents for students, 15 cents for others though the fare was later raised to 25 cents for everyone. Branner Hall was designated an all-freshman dorm in 2021 after Stanford implemented the neighborhood system. It was previously a coed upper-class (i.e., no freshmen) dormitory with a focus on public service. It houses 167 students, mostly in two-room triples. It

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4316-501: The end of a mile-long road, Palm Drive, which leads from the main entrance onto the university grounds and is lined with Canary Island palm trees . At its southwestern (campus) end, Palm Drive becomes a one-way loop that encircles a large lawn called the Oval . Immediately in front perpendicular to Palm Drive is Jane Stanford Way (once known as Serra Mall ), which is restricted to official vehicles and bicycles. Between Jane Stanford Way and

4399-400: The eugenics movement. Most of the university's other, more recent buildings echo the Quad's basic pattern of buff-colored walls, red roofs, and arcades, giving Stanford's campus its distinctive look. The original university plan was to add additional quadrangles of buildings, initially to the left and right of the Main Quad. However, this part of the plan was put aside for many decades until

4482-536: The first class and so new plans were drawn up for a building using Ernest L. Ransome 's reinforced concrete instead of sandstone and it was built in 97 days. Both original dorms were named in Spanish: Encina meaning Live Oak and Robles Blancho [sic] meaning White Oak according to Leland Stanford who decided on the names in 1891 (the latter name was presumably corrected and shortened to just Roble). The tradition of naming many student residences with Spanish names

4565-615: The front (History Corner) is named for the Wallenberg family who gave much of the money for renovating it in 1999. In the early days it housed the university library and was originally built in 1900 with funds from Thomas Welton Stanford , brother of university founder Leland Stanford and uncle of Leland Stanford Junior for whom the university is named. The second story has two white statues of Benjamin Franklin and Johannes Gutenberg . Building 420—the corresponding building on

4648-466: The hard cap of 500 women students was partially lifted. East side Stern and Wilbur halls were built in the 1940s again to house men and west side Florence Moore Hall in 1956 for women. The later 1960s and early 1970s saw all the residence halls become co-ed. One sign of Stanford's success in building on-campus student housing by the mid-1950s is that by the fall of 1954, 36.0% of Stanford students were housed in university-operated residence halls, while

4731-573: The home of the Structured Liberal Education program. Sterling Quad was built in 1982-83, making it one of the newest dormitories on campus. It comprises four houses: Adams, Schiff, Robinson, and Potter. The four houses share a dining and performance hall called Ricker Center. Sterling Quad is named for J. E. Wallace Sterling , former president of the University (1949–1968). Adams is named for Ephraim Douglass Adams ,

4814-607: The house. The Assistant Director for Student Management, located in the Row Office, oversees and advises Student Managers. Many of the row houses also have eating associates who are students living elsewhere but choose to participate in a row house. Student Managers are part of the residence staff leadership team which is coordinated by the Resident Assistant (RA). As a part of the house leadership team they are expected to maintain regular communication with each other,

4897-606: The housing stock retains lead paint and asbestos insulation. As the old housing stock is demolished and rebuilt, these toxins at time are released through carelessness into toxic dust clouds. Marguerite is the free shuttle service Stanford University offers to its students, faculty, staff, and the general public to get around campus or from campus to some off-campus locations such as the San Antonio Shopping Center , VA Palo Alto Hospital , Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), Stanford Shopping Center , or

4980-490: The land to the district. Founded in 1953, the school was originally named after Ray Lyman Wilbur , one of the early presidents of Stanford University . After Jordan Middle School closed due to lack of enrollment in 1985, the two schools were merged at the Wilbur school location and it was renamed Jane Lathrop Stanford after Jane Stanford , co-founder with her husband, Leland Stanford , of Stanford University . Ellen T. Fletcher Middle School, formerly Terman Middle School,

5063-468: The main inner courtyard has eight large raised planting circles with a variety of trees and bushes. The Main Quad also has open covered walkways around the Inner Quad courtyard, Memorial Court, and around the exterior of the entire structure except for the main entrance, the east and west gateways, and part of the back. Each year's graduating class buries a time capsule and marks it with a plaque in

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5146-678: The memory of Barbara Jordan, daughter of the university's first president who died aged 9 in 1901 of scarlet fever; the garden as a whole is in memory of Amy Blue, a university staffer who died in 1988 at the age of 44. Also in that area is the Frances C. Arrillaga Memorial, named after the wife of John Arrillaga ; it has unusual acoustic properties. Behind the church is the Keith Memorial Terrace with its roses and fountain, designed by Thomas D. Church who created many other public spaces and gardens at Stanford, and dedicated to

5229-639: The memory of Captain Willard W. Keith Jr. (class of 1941), who was killed at Guadalcanal in November 1942. The conception of a quadrangle-centered campus wasn't formalized until 1886, several years after Leland Stanford first broached the idea of a university to the press. In planning the new campus, the Stanfords consulted with Francis Walker , then president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and with Frederick Law Olmsted ,

5312-426: The name for Cromemco , an early Silicon Valley company). They were designed by Eldridge Spencer and William Ambrose. Gerhard Casper Quad consists of four houses: Kimball Hall, Castaño (Spanish for chestnut tree), Lantana, and Ng House (Humanities Theme), with a central Gerhard Casper Dining Commons. Built on the site of the former student residence of Manzanita trailer park it was originally named Manzanita Park but

5395-444: The next 10 years ridership went from 700/day to 3,500/day. In 2005 the number had risen to 4,800/day. By 2013 the estimated number of passengers was 2.3 million/year (about 6,300/day). Marguerite has also acquired hybrid and all-electric buses (total fleet as of June 2015 was 79 buses of which 13 were all-electric and 5 were hybrid). The Marguerite shuttle is named for the four horse bus also called Marguerite run by Jasper Paulsen in

5478-470: The non-freshman dorms are the four-class Asian American theme house, Okada, the Outdoor House, Otero, and the upperclass only houses Arroyo and Trancos. Florence Moore Hall, often abbreviated as FloMo, consists of seven different houses: Alondra, Cardenal, Faisan, Gavilan, Loro, Mirlo, and Paloma. It was built in 1956 as a women's dormitory; today all seven buildings are co-ed. Three of the houses are

5561-538: The present Departmental Honors program. From 1999 - 2020, Adams and Schiff formed what was known as the Freshman-Sophomore College (FroSoCo), a two-year residential college. FroSoCo housed approximately 100 freshmen (by application only) and 60 sophomores (choosing to return after living there as freshmen). It attempted to provide "the vibrant residential intellectual community of a small, elite, liberal-arts college while providing enhanced access to

5644-430: The school currently at the site. It was closed in 1978 due to declining enrollment in the district. The district placed a new middle school named Terman Middle School at the site in 1999 to deal with rising enrollment. The first school year was 2001–2002. The new school was named after both Terman and his son Frederick Terman , a Silicon Valley pioneer. The relocation was met with great controversy by local residents as

5727-573: The suites honor former Stanford academic leaders and faculty members: Melville Best Anderson, the first head of the English department; James Owen Griffin, who was invited by President Jordan as one of the first faculty; Oliver Peebles Jenkins, first professor of Physiology and Zoology; and Charles David Marx, the first professor of Civil Engineering. Meals for the suites are served in four Dining Clubs: Avanti, Beefeater, Bollard and Middle Earth. The independent houses are Yost, Murray, and EAST Houses. EAST

5810-809: The trailer park. In 2015 the new Ng House was opened and in 2016 the Manzanita Park complex was renamed Gerhard Casper Quad. In addition to the residence halls, there are also the Row Houses for undergraduates; many were originally fraternity or sorority houses though only 9 of the current 35 are now occupied by Greek organizations. Graduate student residence halls were built in the 1950s for male law students and engineers respectively (Crothers and Crothers Memorial which are now undergraduate residences). Most graduate housing consists of apartment complexes such as Lyman, opened in 1997, Munger, Rains, and GSB (the last has priority for business students). Beginning in

5893-518: The university opened in 1891. The construction of the church, which had been planned from the early years to create a focal point for Inner Quad, was delayed by legal disputes over the Stanford estate, and so was not completed until early in 1903. A review in the Harper’s Weekly estimated its cost to be somewhere around $ 600,000, or about $ 16 million in 2023. Outer Quad was also completed around this time, mostly under Coolidge's direction. The campus

5976-602: The university relocated the statue of Agassiz (because of his support of polygenism ) and dropped the name Jordan Hall (because of Jordan's promotion of eugenics laws ). Only a few of the other buildings have names. Building 200 is officially the Lane History Corner, named for Bill and Jean Lane in 1998. At about the same time Building 320 (aka Geology Corner) became Braun Corner after the Braun family and Building 260 (aka Language Corner) became Pigott Hall after

6059-413: The university to be primarily housed in an inner and outer quadrangle. To design the quadrangle itself, the Stanfords in 1886 hired the firm of "the greatest American architect of his generation," Henry Hobson Richardson . (Richardson himself had died earlier that year, and his three main associates were carrying on his work as the firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge .) This group of architects are noted for

6142-432: The walkway around Inner Quad, starting with the class of 1896 right in front of Memorial Church (the classes of 1892 to 1895 put theirs in later); the plaques now reach more than halfway up the western walkway. Under the west gatehouse is a time capsule and plaque marking the centennial of the opening of the university, and the cornerstone (building 60) also has a time capsule. Wallenberg Hall (building 160) on east side of

6225-433: The west side of the quad—was named for David Starr Jordan , the first president of the university. It has statues of Louis Agassiz ( statue now removed ) and Alexander von Humboldt . The original statues were created by Antonio Frilli , but Franklin and Gutenberg went missing after renovation work in 1949 and were never found; recreations were done by a local sculptor, Oleg Lobykin, and installed in 2013. In October 2020,

6308-527: The west side, and Naranja (orange) and Ujamaa (which consists of two buildings formerly named Olivo and Magnolia) on the east. Ujamaa ( Swahili for extended family) is the home of the African American theme program and Adelfa has a writing focus. In the autumn of 2016 two new houses were added to the complex: Meier Hall named for Linda and Tony Meier in East Lag and Norcliffe Hall named in honor of

6391-459: Was built and was topped with an elaborate frieze representing "The Progress of Civilization in America"; however, the arch was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and was not rebuilt. The cornerstone was laid at what is now Building 60 on May 14, 1887, which would have been Leland Stanford Junior's 19th birthday. The Inner Quad was mostly finished (except for the church) by the time

6474-460: Was established. The name, Roble Hall, was later moved to the current Roble Hall (built 1917) and the original building renamed Sequoia Hall , used as a men's dorm then the Statistics department, and eventually torn down in 1996. East side Branner and Toyon Halls were built in the 1920s for men and west side Lagunita Court was built in the 1930s in part to house the growing number of women after

6557-411: Was founded in 1937. It was closed in 1985 due to lack of enrollment in the district, then reopened in 1991 after remodeling. A bond was approved by the city of Palo Alto in 1995 to allow for further technological upgrades to the school. The school mascot from 1937–1985 was a dolphin. When Jordan reopened in 1991, the students voted to have the jaguar become the mascot. In 1999, the students voted to have

6640-553: Was offered to Stanford, which accepted it as a long-term loan and installed it in 1984. The sculpture was vandalized several times over the next 10 years but eventually became an accepted part of the public art at Stanford. New York in 1992 finally installed the first casting in Christopher Park . Between the church and building 60 is the Amy Blue Garden with benches, a sundial, and a small birdbath dedicated to

6723-528: Was previously upperclass residence and it occupies two buildings named Crothers Hall and Crothers Memorial (CroMem). The dorm previously had a global citizenship focus. Both Crothers Hall and Crothers Memorial are a mix of single rooms and one room doubles. The dorm is named after an early student and later trustee of the university, George E. Crothers . Both were originally built as graduate residences; Crothers Hall in 1948 for law students and Crothers Memorial in 1955 for engineering students (the latter provided

6806-659: Was renamed after former university president Gerhard Casper in 2016. Kimball Hall is named for the primary donors, William and Sara Kimball, and opened in 1991. Ng House was originally opened as the Humanities Theme Residence (aka Humanities House), and was renamed after the Ng family in 2016. The house was completed in 2015 and was the first new undergraduate residence constructed on campus in 20 years. The three-story buildings of Gerhard Casper Quad house approximately 550 students, all upperclassmen (no freshmen), in

6889-522: Was severely damaged in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Restoration of the Quad began immediately, wrapping up in 1909 to a cost of around $ 700,000, but several original features of the Quad that collapsed in the earthquake were never rebuilt: the huge Memorial Arch over the entrance to Memorial Court, and a spire on Memorial Church. The Quad, which was originally built of unreinforced masonry, has been seismically retrofitted several times since then. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake also damaged some of

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