Looking north to the future site of Thorne Hall
Trees lined Armadale Avenue as it wound its way through campus from south to north in a park-like setting. The steps to Johnson Hall can barely be seen through the foliage on the right of the photo. In 1938, Armadale Avenue would be closed and the campus reoriented with new landscaping and terracing by famed landscape architect Beatrix Farrand. This was completed for the opening of Oxy’s iconic Thorne Hall, named by trustee Charles Thorne in honor of his wife Belle Wilber Thorne.