Emory University District

Emory University's historic core sits on a wooded, rolling site in Atlanta's Druid Hills, land donated by Asa Griggs Candler when the university was founded in 1915 as an outgrowth of Emory College at Oxford. New York architect Henry Hornbostel laid out a comprehensive campus plan around a main quadrangle and designed the first buildings, including the Law and Theology schools of 1916 and the Anatomy and Physiology laboratories of 1917. These reinforced concrete buildings are faced in pink and gray Georgia marble laid in an irregular pattern, with red tile roofs and arched windows that recall Italian villas. Later work includes the 1926 Candler Library by Edward Tilton and buildings by Hentz-Adler-Shutze, among them Glenn Memorial Church and its Little Chapel. The district was listed because it preserves the central part of Hornbostel's plan, which blended with natural dogwoods and pines, and because it reflects Methodist and Candler family influence on the campus.