World War 1 Memorial Cloister And Towers At Cornell Editorial Photo

The World War 1 Memorial group, with its twin Army and Navy towers and connecting cloister and court, is flanked by Lyon Hall on the north and McFaddin Hall on the south. Rhode Island architect F Ellis Jackson class of 1900 suggested that Ralph Adams Cram`s plan for this portion of the collegiate Gothic men`s campus be modified to include a memorial to 264 Cornellians who died in WW1 and a monumental entry to the men`s residential area on axis with McGraw Tower. Their names are inscribed on plaques between unglazed tracery windows in the cloister. Over the windows are the names of battles in which they fought. An alumni fundraising committee was headed by Robert Ellis Treman `09 and the names of individual and group donors are inscribed in the tower rooms, Lyon Hall, and over entries.