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Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europe.
Part academic satire, part murder mystery, and part fractured love story, Collegiate Gothic is a tale of obsession and the effect a woman’s death can have on a small college town.
The rise of the Collegiate Gothic style begins with William A. Potter's Pyne Library (now known as East Pyne), the first explicitly Collegiate Gothic buiding at Princeton.
This dissertation explores the origins and development of Collegiate Gothic style in American higher education from 1806 to 1906. It examines the architects, patrons, and educational associations that shaped this medievalizing architecture and its meanings.
- Mooney, B. (n2007036234)
- Thesis
- Springer, Mary R.
- 2017
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.
Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europe.
Mar 1, 2019 · How did American universities adopt the Gothic style in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? This article explores the cultural, social, and historical factors that influenced the Gothicization of campuses and the reception of medieval literature and culture.
