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Grand Plans

And then came 1906.

May/June 2008

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Grand Plans

Stanford Archives

At 130,000 square feet, the neoclassical Stanford Men’s Gym was the country’s largest, boasting a bowling alley, ballroom and banquet hall in addition to typical sport facilities. But before it could open, the 1906 earthquake struck. What wasn’t reduced to rubble was demolished in 1910. With a new concert hall planned for the site, at the corner of Lasuen Street and Museum Way, University archeologist Laura Jones has been leading students in an excavation, hoping to uncover clues to structural weaknesses that led to the collapse.

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