The Cornaro Window The New York Church Glass Company and Dunstan Powell, The Cornaro Window, 1906, stained glass. Thompson Memorial Library, Vassar College The Cornaro Window, or Great Window, is the striking focal point of Vassar’s Thompson Memorial Library. In panes of painted and stained glass, the window depicts Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-84), the…… Continue reading The Cornaro Window
Category: Architecture
The Campus Green
The Campus Green: The Olmsted Firm’s Designs for Vassar College Vassar College and Grounds, Surveyed by the Class of 1878; with annotations for added working buildings in green, and residential buildings in red, presumably in the hand of J. C. Olmsted. (Courtesy of the National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site) Vassar has…… Continue reading The Campus Green
Jeh V. Johnson, FAIA
We are tracing the activities of this important architect-professor, who employed design as a tool of social justice, designed many buildings on campus and in the community, and was an especially beloved teacher and mentor to generations of Vassar students who have gone on in the fields of architecture and design.
Spaces for GIs
A POSSE veteran at Vassar interested in the issue of campus spaces for veterans today set out to study spaces for the GIs who had studied here in the late 1940s — Vassar’s first male graduates. His research revealed that there actually were not many such spaces –just one lounge for the men to get away from the “girls”. In the process, he chronicled some of the experiences of those first male graduates on the Vassar campus.
Williams Hall
The planned demolition of Williams Hall to make way for the Vassar Inn and Institute has provoked strong feelings on both sides. Cassie Jain (VC ‘20) shot black and white film images of the building, pairing her own photos with historic images she found in the Vassar archives. The resulting zine is an eloquent eulogy to the building, in text and image.
