1930: The NEW New Building

Charles Phelps Taft Hall, designed by James Gamble Rogers and named for another of Horace's brothers, opens. The "new building" includes a larger library, Bingham Auditorium, more dorm space, and an upper school common room (today's Choral Room). Not long after breaking ground in the fall of 1929, the stock market crashes...

CPT by Peter R. Lucas