Every Friday we post something on social media that is either a Fact or is Fiction. People can comment which they think it is before heading here for the correct answer. Here is Friday Fact or Fiction #22!
Today’s Post: Grove City College’s “quad” was designed by the same landscape architectural firm that designed the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and New York City’s Central Park.
Answer: FACT! Here is an excerpt from Grove City College’s website on the subject: The Quad (Olmsted): Since the founding of Grove City College in 1876, originally Pine Grove Normal Academy, President and Founder Isaac Ketler (1876-1913) envisioned the College campus extending uphill to the opposite side of Wolf Creek. Third President Weir C. Ketler (1915-1956) made his father’s vision a reality. The College asked the Olmsted Brothers Company in 1930 to help design the upper campus with the goal of building in a beautiful neo-gothic style. The Olmsted Brothers Company was an influential landscape architectural firm that designed notable campuses and parks around the United States such as the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and New York City’s Central Park. The Olmsted firm, under the direction of the main architect, Carl Rust Parker, worked with Grove City College to design the upper campus. The quadrangle “quad” would be the center focus with buildings facing inwards and the campus overlooking Wolf Creek and lower campus. Everything on campus would then be an extension of that inner quadrangle.