Washington University in St. Louis

Brookings Hall, the towered gateway of Washington University in St. Louis, seen across the brick walks of its front lawn. Six firms were invited to plan the hilltop campus, and the Collegiate Gothic design went to Cope & Stewardson, who had already built for Bryn Mawr; early visitors compared the site to the Acropolis. Before students moved in, the university leased its new buildings to the 1904 World's Fair as its headquarters, when this one was called University Hall, so the campus had a world audience before it had a freshman class.