1917
Frederic E. Morgan, son of Principia's founder, meets San
Francisco architect Bernard Ralph Maybeck when visiting
the Arthur E. Bingham family in Montecito, California.
Maybeck, who had designed the Bingham house in 1916, was
a frequent visitor. Morgan will marry the Bingham daughter,
Madeline, in 1919.
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1921
Summer,
Bernard Maybeck invites Frederic E. Morgan, now director
of Principia, to San Francisco as a guest of the Bohemian
Club. Along with other members of the Club, they spend
two weeks camping in the redwoods along the Russian River
in Sonoma County, north of San Francisco. The area known
as the Bohemian Grove is where Maybeck and Morgan begin
their discussions of a college campus.
1922
May,
Principia officially announces
plans to build a four-year college campus.
1923
April,
Maybeck travels to St. Louis to present his ideas for a
college campus to Principia's Board of Trustees. During
the next few years, Maybeck visits classes and interviews
students, faculty and staff.
May 2,
Board of Trustees commissions Maybeck to design a general
plan for a college campus to be located on the Loc Lin Estate
in Overland, Missouri.
1924
January,
Maybeck returns to St. Louis and presents preliminary
studies to the Board of Trustees. These drawings, which
give a general layout of buildings, focus on three different
architectural styles: Gothic, Georgian and English vernacular.
With the exception of the Chapel which would be in the
American Colonial style, the Board of Trustees selects
the English Village of the Elizabethan period as the dominant
style and theme for the campus, and commissions Maybeck
to begin plans to build the first unit. Maybeck again
will spend a number of weeks at Principia talking with
students, faculty and staff, and visiting the Loc Lin
site.
July-August, Frederic
E. Morgan is in San Francisco working with Morgan on the
general plan for the campus.
October 31, Maybeck
submits a general plan to the Board of Trustees.
November-December,
Maybeck and daughter Kerna tour eastern United States
for a month. Stops include Chicago, Boston, New Haven
(Yale University), New York City, Washington D.C., and
St. Louis.
