Library Mural

This photograph shows the third and fourth floors of Elizabeth Huth Coates Library and captures artist James Sicner, who sits on a scaffold, in the process of painting the library’s mural, Man’s Evolving Images: Printing and Writing...

Old Miller Fountain

In this photograph Dinh juxtaposes an image from the 1980s of the lawn in front of the Coates University Center with a view of the space today. Moving right to left the viewer sees Northrup Hall (2004) and the Coates University Center...

Behind Calvert

This photograph was taken on the path behind Calvert Hall. Atop the hill to the right, pictured in the black-and-white and color photographs, is the old Student Union, now known as the Coates University Center (1952). The upper portion of...

Pool

This photograph depicts the Trinity University Swimming Pool and its dramatic siting against the rocky cliff face that divides upper and lower campus. This complex was part of Ford’s original campus plan and was the first facility...

Cardiac Hill

The Cardiac Hill staircase has been an important passage for students moving between upper and lower campus since its construction and is one of the largest of Trinity’s iconic outdoor concrete staircases. The black-and-white photo was...

Chapman 2

The building in this image is the Chapman Memorial Center (1964), formerly known as the Chapman Memorial Graduate Center. It is located on the northwest side of upper campus. It used to be the home of all graduate classes and is now...

Chapel

The buildings in this photograph are the Margarite B. Parker Chapel (1966), and the base of Murchison Tower (1964). The chapel’s siting atop the hill and its small plaza and bell tower recall the medieval Italian urban planning. The...

Elizabeth Huth Coates Library

After having worked on Trinity’s campus for nearly thirty years, in 1979 Ford’s firm, O’Neil Ford and Associates, completed the Elizabeth Coates Maddox Library. The university community dedicated the building and opened it for use on...

Esplanade

The contrast between the black-and-white image at the center of the composition and the contemporary color photograph around it draws the viewer’s attention to the consistencies of and changes to the Coates Esplanade over time. Two...

George Storch Memorial Building

The George Storch Memorial Building, shown in the older photograph several decades after its construction in 1951, was one of the first buildings constructed on Trinity’s new skyline campus. The building was one of the best examples of the...

Winn Residence Hall

This photograph shows Winn Residence Hall, which houses first year students. It was built in 1962 using the Youtz-Slick Lift-Slab method, which means the concrete slabs that form its balconies were first poured on the ground and then...

Chapman 3

Prassel Thomas