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28-486: Busey Hall was built in 1916, while Evans Hall was built in 1926; a connector wing links the two buildings, and they are considered part of the same dormitory complex. James A. White designed Busey Hall, while Charles A. Platt designed Evans Hall; both architects played an important role in designing other buildings on the university's campus, and both chose the Georgian Revival style for their designs to match

56-541: A Georgian style, with red brick, white wood and limestone trim, round and arched windows, and prominent gables, dormers, and chimneys. These included several buildings (1924–31) combining classrooms and offices, a dormitory, gymnasiums, plus such landmarks as the Main Library, McKinley Hospital, and the President's House. His Italian Renaissance -styled Russell A. Alger House, at 32 Lakeshore Drive, now serves as

84-412: A building or serve as protection for an open terrace or a link between pavilions . They are different from green tunnels , with a green tunnel being a type of road under a canopy of trees. Depending on the context, the terms "pergola", " bower ", and " arbor " are often used interchangeably. An "arbor" is also regarded as being a wooden bench seat with a roof, usually enclosed by lattice panels forming

112-640: A framework for climbing plants; in evangelical Christianity , brush arbor revivals occur under such structures. A pergola, on the other hand, is a much larger and more open structure. Normally, a pergola does not include integral seating. Modern pergola structures can also include architectural or engineering structures having a pergola design, which are not used in gardens. California High-Speed Rail , for instance, uses large concrete pergolas to support high-speed rail guideways which cut over roadways or other rail tracks at shallow angles (unlike bridges or overcrossings which are usually nearly at right angles). (See

140-554: A general revival of interest in Platt and his works. Pergola A pergola is most commonly an outdoor garden feature forming a shaded walkway, passageway, or sitting area of vertical posts or pillars that usually support crossbeams and a sturdy open lattice , often upon which woody vines are trained . The origin of the word is the Late Latin pergula , referring to a projecting eave. It also may be an extension of

168-705: A new style, essentially an Arts and Crafts setting for Beaux-Arts Neo-Georgian and Colonial Revival architecture. Platt designed a grand country estate for Edith Rockefeller McCormick at "Villa Turicum" in Lake Forest, Illinois (1912, demolished). In 1907, he designed a townhouse for Sara Delano Roosevelt on East 65th Street in New York, now a historic landmark, the Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House . Eleanor Roosevelt called Platt "an architect of great taste" who with

196-654: A structure on which to grow. In 1498, Leonardo da Vinci decorated the Sala delle Asse of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan to give the illusion of the great square and vaulted reception hall being within a pergola that was made up of the intertwined branches of sixteen huge mulberry trees. The novel project was commissioned by the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza . Pergolas are more permanent architectural features than

224-495: A weather-resistant wood, such as western red cedar ( Thuja plicata ) or, formerly, of coast redwood ( Sequoia sempervirens ). They are painted, stained , or use wood treated with preservatives for outdoor use. For a low maintenance alternative to wood, the contemporary materials of vinyl, fiberglass, aluminum, and CPVC can be used. These materials do not require yearly paint or stain like a wooden pergola would, and their manufacture can make them even stronger and longer-lasting than

252-755: The Art Students League in New York, and later, the Académie Julian in Paris , with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre . At the Paris Salon of 1885, he exhibited his paintings and etchings and gained his first audience. In the decade 1880–1890, he made hundreds of etchings of architecture and landscapes. He received a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 . A trip to Italy in 1892 in

280-755: The City of Little Falls, New York , (extant, in private ownership) for Mr. J. Judson Gilbert, owner of the Gilbert Knitting Company and several other then-prosperous factories in the Mohawk Valley region of Upstate New York . The MIT Endicott House in Dedham, Massachusetts , is another Platt-designed mansion built for H. Wendell Endicott in 1934, in use today as a conference center for Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Beginning in 1906, Platt had begun to receive numerous commissions from

308-751: The Grosse Pointe War Memorial. Platt also designed the Lyme Art Association building in Old Lyme, Connecticut . Platt's The Leader-News Building in Cleveland, Ohio , at the corner of Superior and Bond Street (now East 6th Street) was reportedly fitted with elevator cabs designed by Tiffany Studios. The Building was completed in 1912 and, per the Architectural Record , "Cleveland is to be congratulated upon

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336-508: The green tunnels of late medieval and early Renaissance gardens that often were formed of springy withies —easily replaced shoots of willow or hazel —bound together at the heads to form a series of arches , then loosely woven with long slats on which climbers were grown, to make a passage that was both cool, shaded, and moderately dry in a shower. At the Medici villa , La Petraia , inner and outer curving segments of such green walks,

364-768: The Gwinn Estate in Cleveland, Ohio (designed with Warren Manning and Ellen Biddle Shipman ). His drawings and archives, including the original glass plate negatives for "Italian Gardens" are held by the Department of Drawings & Archives in the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University . In 1993, Platt's book, Italian Gardens, was reissued with additional photographs by Platt, and an introductory overview by Keith N. Morgan , whose research into Platt's career helped to generate

392-769: The Italianate palazzo he designed for the Smithsonian Institution 's Freer Gallery of Art (1918) in Washington, D.C., and the campuses of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1922 and 1927), Connecticut College , Deerfield Academy , and Phillips Academy Andover , where he designed the chapel and library and their settings. He fulfilled the University of Illinois's 1920s building program by designing 11 buildings, for many purposes, all in

420-606: The campus's architectural theme. The Women's Residence Hall was the first residence hall on the university's campus; the all-female dormitory filled a need for women's housing at the university, which had been privately maintained and in short supply. The hall quickly filled up, and the West Residence Hall was built to provide additional space for female students. In 1937, the buildings were renamed for university trustees Mary E. Busey and Laura B. Evans. The residence halls were still in use as all-female student housing until

448-531: The children were William (1897–1984) and Geoffrey (1905–1985), who followed in their father's footsteps and practiced architecture in New York City. His great-grandson is actor Oliver Platt . Charles Platt died in Cornish, New Hampshire at the age of 72. Near the end of the 20th century some of Platt's surviving gardens in their full maturity were opened to the public including the spectacular gardens at

476-606: The company of his brother to photograph extant Renaissance gardens and villas led to a marked development in Platt's aesthetic approach. He published many of these images in his influential book Italian Gardens (Harper & Brothers, 1894), the outcome of two articles published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in the summer of 1893. The volume was strong on the surviving gardens of the Renaissance and Baroque and made no attempt to describe their history or their designers. As well,

504-402: The company of the fifth Earl of Pembroke , Evelyn watched the coursing of hares from a "pergola" built on the downs near Salisbury for that purpose. The clearly artificial nature of the pergola made it fall from favor in the naturalistic gardening styles of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet handsome pergolas on brick and stone pillars with powerful cross-beams were a feature of

532-491: The estate of Vincent Astor . Platt turned to professional help in surveying large-scale projects from the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted . He also received detailed planting plans to fill his borders from Ellen Biddle Shipman , whom he had come to know through her gardening at Cornish, and whom he had instructed in presentation drawings by a draftsman from his own office, then sent to Grosse Pointe, Michigan to plant one of his designs. His more visible public commissions include

560-795: The fall semester of 2019, when the Evans hall was designated as all male for the first time in its history to accommodate the closure of another all male residence hall on campus. The residence halls were added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 5, 2003. This article about a property in Champaign County, Illinois on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Charles A. Platt Charles Adams Platt (October 16, 1861 – September 12, 1933)

588-480: The forerunners of pergolas, give structure to the pattern that can be viewed from the long terrace above it. The origin of the word is the Late Latin pergula , referring to a projecting eave . The English term was borrowed from Italian . The term was mentioned in an Italian context in 1645 by John Evelyn at the cloister of Trinità dei Monti in Rome He used the term in an English context in 1654 when, in

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616-847: The gardens designed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll and epitomize their trademark of firm structure luxuriantly planted. A particularly extensive pergola is featured at the gardens of The Hill in Hampstead (London), designed by Thomas Mawson for his client W. H. Lever . Pergola in Wrocław was designed in 1911 and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2006. Modern pergola design materials including wood, vinyl, fiberglass, aluminum, and chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) rather than brick or stone pillars, are more affordable and are increasing in popularity. Wooden pergolas are made either from

644-450: The high-speed rail pergola structure picture elsewhere in the article for an illustration.) Pergolas may link pavilions or extend from a building's door to an open garden feature such as an isolated terrace or pool. Freestanding pergolas, those not attached to a home or other structure, provide a sitting area that allows for breeze and light sun, but offer protection from the harsh glare of direct sunlight. Pergolas also give climbing plants

672-547: The influences of Reginald Blomfield 's The Formal Garden in England (1892) and gardens by Gertrude Jekyll illustrated in Country Life further refined Platt's style. (Platt was unaware of the first history of Italian gardens, W.P. Tuckermann's thorough Die Gartenkunst der italienischen Renaissance-Zeit , Berlin 1884.) The impact of Platt, and of Edith Wharton 's Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904), can be seen in

700-849: The possession of one of the handsomest and most distinguished buildings in the country." - H.D.C. In 1919, Platt became a trustee of the American Academy in Rome . He became president of the academy in 1928 and served until his death. He also served on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1921, and as vice chairman from 1920 to 1921. Throughout his life, Platt maintained his house and garden in Cornish, New Hampshire, and an office and residence in Manhattan. With his second wife, Eleanor Hardy Bunker (widow of Dennis Miller Bunker ), whom Platt married in 1893, Platt had five children. Among

728-604: The shift among stylish Americans from country houses set in lawns with shaped beds of annuals, swept drives and clumps of trees typical of 1885 to houses in settings of gravel-lined forecourts, planted terracing, formal stairs and water features, herbaceous borders and pergolas typical of the early 20th century. Platt was a member of the group that gravitated to the Cornish Art Colony , which formed around Augustus Saint-Gaudens in Cornish, New Hampshire . His own garden in Cornish, made between 1892 and 1912, exemplifies

756-568: The townhouse had "made the most of every inch of space." The building currently houses the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College . In 1912, he designed "The Causeway", Washington DC , a Neo-Georgian house in an extensive wooded landscape setting. He also designed a house in 1912 in Roslyn , New York for George R. Dyer . Platt also designed a large manor house and grounds, built in 1915 in

784-612: Was an American architect , garden designer , and artist of the " American Renaissance " movement. His garden designs complemented his domestic architecture. Platt was born in New York City , the son of Mary Elizabeth (Cheney) and John Henry Platt. Platt trained as a landscape painter, and as an etcher with Stephen Parrish in Gloucester, Massachusetts , in 1880. He attended the National Academy of Design and

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