McMurtry Art and Art History Building
Stanford University was established in memory of the railroad magnate Leland Stanford’s only child, who died of typhoid in 1884. The founding gift included an 8,180-acre cattle farm that would become the Palo Alto, California, campus. Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted designed the picturesque grounds with Boston-based architects Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge—successors of architect Henry Hobson Richardson, best known for the Richardsonian Romanesque style. Blending round-arch arcades of heavy-stone construction and the Mission Revival style’s massive rectilinear buildings with clay-tile roofs, the university’s historic campus architecture is a unique integration of design and landscape. This context presented a challenge for a new building devoted to the study of art.
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