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Sandstone & Tile, Winter 2012
Volume 36, Number 1

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Historic Houses VI: Stanford's Craftsman Bungalows

Histoic Houses VI: Stanford's Craftsman Bungalows

From its founding, Stanford University was intended to be a residential community of scholars. Early designs by campus planner Frederick Law Olmsted included housing for faculty and staff, and Jane Stanford, in an address to the trustees in 1899, reaffirmed: “It is desirable that the members of the faculty and the students should generally reside upon the grounds of the University.” Stanford’s housing programs began in 1891 with the construction of 10 pattern-book houses (the Decalogue) on Alvarado Row, which were sold to charter members of the faculty and staff. A surprising number of houses dating back to early Stanford days still exist. (read more)

Leo HolubSeeing Stanford
Photographer Leo Holub

Leo Holub founded the Art Department’s photography program in 1969. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the California School of Fine Arts and arrived at Stanford in 1960 to work in the university’s Planning Office. He soon became known for his intimate, candid photographs of Stanford life. An exhibit of his work, called Stanford Seen, was mounted by the Stanford Art Gallery in 1964, and the Stanford Alumni Association published Leo Holub, Photographer, a look of his images, in 1982. Holub taught photography to more than 4,000 Stanford art students and retired in 1980 as senior lecturer emeritus. Over the next decade, he was commissioned to photograph portraits of more than a hundred artists whose works are in the collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson. He died at the age of 93 on April 27, 2010. This article is adapted from two interviews conducted by Judee Humburg in 2009 for the society’s Oral History Program, as part of a series on Stanford artists. (read more)

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  • Stanford through the Century
  • SHS News
  • Upcoming Society Activities
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Program SPOTLIGHT
2012 - 2103 Programs

October 7, 2012
Founders' Celebration

October 11, 2012
Women's Sports at Stanford: 40 years of Title IX

December 11, 2012 (New Date)
The Program in Human Biology at 40 years: What made this start-up so successful?

Date TBD
"No proven communist should hold a position on our faculty" (Wallace Sterling): Victor Arnautoff, the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and Stanford

February 11, 2013
Stanford Women in Space

April 8, 2013
2013 Prize for Excellence in Historical Writing

April 2013 (date TBD)
History of the Creative Writing Program

April 28, 2013
Ninth Annual Historic House & Garden Tour

May 15, 2013
SHS 37th Annual Meeting and Reception: History of the Music Department

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