Scripps College for Women

Scripps College in Claremont, California, is a walled women's college campus planned as a single design in 1926. Gordon B. Kaufmann designed eight of its ten major buildings, including the Toll, Grace Scripps, Ellen Browning and Susan Miller Dorsey residence halls and the Denison Library. Edward Huntsman-Trout laid out the formal gardens, courtyards and lawns, drawing on Italian Renaissance garden models. The buildings share creamy white stucco, red tile roofs and a residential scale, none rising above three stories. The nomination presents the campus as unusually unified for a college, with the Mediterranean style chosen deliberately to suit the study of arts and humanities. It notes that the original landscaping and buildings are largely intact, the main change being the 1970 Humanities Building on the former olive grove. Buildings continue in their original uses, and the campus contrasts with the housing tracts that have grown up around it. Kaufmann regarded it as his finest work.