PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES

The campus has approximately 285 acres of level ground planted with more than 4,000 trees. The 2.9-mile campus perimeter is bounded by a hedge of wax leaf ligustrum and a double row of live oak trees. No public roads cross the campus.


RICE ARCHITECTURE

The campus includes about 50 major buildings, many of which are based on a "neo-Byzantine" style developed by the early 20th Century, American Architect revivalist, Ralph Adams Cram and characterized by red tile roofs, rose-hued brick, semicircular archways, and elaborate detailing. The Boston architecture firm of Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson was responsible for the general plan of the campus (1910) and for the following buildings:

Lovett Hall (1912)
Will Rice College (1912)
Mechanical Laboratory (1912)
Baker College (1912, 1915)
Physics Laboratory (1914)
Hanszen College (1916)

More information about other notable Rice buildings can be found on Rice's Facilities and Engineering Campus Map website at http://dacnet.rice.edu/maps/space/


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A publication of the Office of Institutional Research. (Email: instresr@ruf.rice.edu).

Updated: Wednesday, October 2, 2002


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